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• box car, box-car

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語源 1

From box +‎ car.

名詞

boxcar (plural boxcars)

1. (rail transport, US) An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.

   Synonyms: covered goods wagon (formal in the UK), goods van (British and Australian English), box van, van, house car (rare)

   • 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 83:

     The locomotive pulled one single car, a dilapidated boxcar missing numerous planks in its walls.

上位語

• railroad car

派生語

• boxcar function

参考

• flatcar

動詞

boxcar (third-person singular simple present boxcars, present participle boxcarring, simple past and past participle boxcarred)

1. (mathematics, transitive) To reduce to a boxcar function.

形容詞

boxcar (comparative more boxcar, superlative most boxcar)

1. Extremely large.

   Synonyms: gigantic, enormous; see also Thesaurus:large

語源 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

名詞

boxcar (plural boxcars)

1. (attributive, followed by "scar") A type of atrophic acne scar that forms a broad, box-like depression on the skin.

   Hypernym: atrophic scar

   Coordinate terms: icepick scar, rolling scar

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