boxlike
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3.7
- adjective
- /ˈbɑksˌlaɪk/
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en forma de caja
- The final elements of the relief are the two boxlike doorways that frame the scene (Fig. 2).
- boxlike structure
- boxlike building
- boxlike chamber
Examples
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The town was filled with boxlike houses, each identical in shape and size.
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The artist created a series of boxlike sculptures that resembled small buildings.
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The musopticon proved to be a bulky, boxlike structure about two feet on each side.
Fiction book (1998) -
The scene is framed by two boxlike forms that suggest freestanding doorways.
Academic text (2012) -
Each square canvas featured a line of rectangular, boxlike bodies with wide shoulders and sticklike limbs.
Fiction book (1995) -
Another boat followed, its goods stacked amidships in a long boxlike structure, lashed down tight, with forty-odd men aboard.
Fiction book (1994) -
It stands maybe twenty-five feet high, forty feet long from nose to tail, with an enormous, boxlike head that must be five feet long by itself.
Fiction book (1993) -
Wilke first exhibited these boxlike sculptures in New York just months prior to Hetero Is in an exhibition at the Castagno Gallery, Three-Dimensional Art (March 1-April 9, 1966).
Academic text (2012) -
She admired the architect's design, which featured a minimalist, boxlike structure.
Synonyms
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3.2
Having four straight sides and four right angles
5
3.2
A shape like a box with straight sides and sharp corners
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4.0
Having a thick, square or rectangular shape with straight edges
1
3.5
A shape like a box with sides almost the same length
1
3.0
Shaped like a box with flat sides and straight corners
Having the shape of a cube or a rectangular box
Having six flat square sides and sharp corners like a box
Shaped like a solid box with straight edges
How Boxy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word boxlike is made from box and the ending -like, where -like means 'similar to'. So boxlike simply means 'shaped or looking like a box', just as childlike means 'like a child'.