"live box" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈlaɪvˌbɒks/ Forms: live boxes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} live box (plural live boxes)
  1. A box or pen suspended in water to keep aquatic animals alive. Synonyms: live-box
    Sense id: en-live_box-en-noun-3jmgurkC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "live boxes",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1856, Philip Henry Gosse, Tenby: A Sea-side Holiday:",
          "text": "A drop of water and sediment oozes out; and when the live-box cover is put on, this drop is flattened out, and the box is set upon the stage of the microscope to be searched with a low power.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, Papers, volume 2, page 302:",
          "text": "The 3 individuals which escaped joined others of their species which had been for some days living apparently unmolested against the flat bottom and sides of a large, floating live-box.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A box or pen suspended in water to keep aquatic animals alive."
      ],
      "id": "en-live_box-en-noun-3jmgurkC",
      "links": [
        [
          "box",
          "box"
        ],
        [
          "alive",
          "alive"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "live-box"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlaɪvˌbɒks/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "live box"
}
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1856, Philip Henry Gosse, Tenby: A Sea-side Holiday:",
          "text": "A drop of water and sediment oozes out; and when the live-box cover is put on, this drop is flattened out, and the box is set upon the stage of the microscope to be searched with a low power.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, Papers, volume 2, page 302:",
          "text": "The 3 individuals which escaped joined others of their species which had been for some days living apparently unmolested against the flat bottom and sides of a large, floating live-box.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A box or pen suspended in water to keep aquatic animals alive."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "box",
          "box"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlaɪvˌbɒks/"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "live-box"
    }
  ],
  "word": "live box"
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