BOXING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boxing mean? 

• BOXING (noun)
  The noun BOXING has 2 senses:

1. fighting with the fists

2. the enclosure of something in a package or box

  Familiarity information: BOXING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOXING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fighting with the fists

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

boxing; fisticuffs; pugilism

Hypernyms ("boxing" is a kind of...):

contact sport (a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players)

Domain member category:

sidestep (a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing))

biff; clout; lick; poke; punch; slug ((boxing) a blow with the fist)

clinch ((boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily)

boxing equipment (equipment used in boxing)

boxing glove; glove (boxing equipment consisting of big and padded coverings for the fists of the fighters; worn for the sport of boxing)

boxing ring; prize ring (a square ring where boxers fight)

gumshield; mouthpiece ((especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth)

decision ((boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred)

count out (declare the loser)

remain down; take the count (be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten)

hook (hit with a hook)

cut (move (one's fist))

below the belt (disregarding the rules (from the notion of an illegal low blow in boxing))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boxing"):

professional boxing (boxing for money)

in-fighting (boxing at close quarters)

fight (a boxing or wrestling match)

rope-a-dope (a boxing tactic: pretending to be trapped against the ropes while your opponent wears himself out throwing punches)

spar; sparring (making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer)

Derivation:

box (engage in a boxing match)

box (hit with the fist)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The enclosure of something in a package or box

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

boxing; packing

Hypernyms ("boxing" is a kind of...):

enclosing; enclosure; envelopment; inclosure (the act of enclosing something inside something else)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boxing"):

bundling (the act of binding something into a bundle)

Derivation:

box (put into a box)

 Context examples 

He provided foils for us, and Steerforth gave me lessons in fencing—gloves, and I began, of the same master, to improve in boxing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have even heard that you go the length of boxing with the young officers.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘No,’ said I. ‘It is your ears. They have the peculiar flattening and thickening which marks the boxing man.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He begged, therefore, to drink “Success to the Fancy,” coupled with the name of John Jackson, who might stand as a type of all that was most admirable in British boxing.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You are aware that I have some proficiency in the good old British sport of boxing. Occasionally, it is of service, to-day, for example, I should have come to very ignominious grief without it.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He was the only friend I made during the two years I was at college. I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson, always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my year. Bar fencing and boxing I had few athletic tastes, and then my line of study was quite distinct from that of the other fellows, so that we had no points of contact at all. Trevor was the only man I knew, and that only through the accident of his bull terrier freezing on to my ankle one morning as I went down to chapel.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)