boxing

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of box
• Present participle of box

Noun

• A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists, the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.
• Material used for making boxes or casing.
• Casing.
• Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.

Related

Similar words

• fisticuffs, pugilism, sparring

Opposite words

• unboxing

Narrower meaning words

• kickboxing
• shadowboxing
• autoboxing

Origin

• From box + -ing.
• From box + -ing.