"box-like" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From box + -like.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Down Town Back-alleys”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 31:",
          "text": "Once inside it widens, but only to make room for a big box-like building with the worn and greasy look of the slum tenement that is stamped alike on the houses and their tenants down here, […]",
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          "ref": "1961 May, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 302:",
          "text": "The majority of locomotive bodies have vertical sides, partly to simplify construction and partly to make the utmost use of the permissible loading gauge. This tends to produce a box-like appearance, which is uninteresting in itself but can be improved [...].",
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