boxer
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
boxer (plural boxers)
- A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.
- You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.
- A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
- A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
- The person running a game of two-up.
- One who packs boxes.
- 1917, Vocational Education Survey of Minneapolis, Minn, page 385:
- They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]
- A letterboxer.
SynonymsEdit
- (participant in a boxing match): pugilist
- (type of engine): boxer engine
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
participant in a boxing match
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breed of dog
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type of internal combustion engine — see boxer engine
See alsoEdit
- wrestler
- Boxer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Boxer (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
AnagramsEdit
CebuanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Named after its glove-like palps.
NounEdit
boxer
- an unqualified spider in spider fighting, a male with glove-like palps, instead used as a feed
CzechEdit
NounEdit
boxer m anim
DeclensionEdit
NounEdit
boxer m inan
DeclensionEdit
FrenchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
boxer m (plural boxers)
- boxer (dog)
- boxer shorts, boxers
- boxer (engine)
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
boxer
- to box (to fight against (a person) in a boxing match)
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of boxer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | boxer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | boxant /bɔk.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | boxé /bɔk.se/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | boxe /bɔks/ |
boxes /bɔks/ |
boxe /bɔks/ |
boxons /bɔk.sɔ̃/ |
boxez /bɔk.se/ |
boxent /bɔks/ |
imperfect | boxais /bɔk.sɛ/ |
boxais /bɔk.sɛ/ |
boxait /bɔk.sɛ/ |
boxions /bɔk.sjɔ̃/ |
boxiez /bɔk.sje/ |
boxaient /bɔk.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | boxai /bɔk.se/ |
boxas /bɔk.sa/ |
boxa /bɔk.sa/ |
boxâmes /bɔk.sam/ |
boxâtes /bɔk.sat/ |
boxèrent /bɔk.sɛʁ/ | |
future | boxerai /bɔk.sə.ʁe/ |
boxeras /bɔk.sə.ʁa/ |
boxera /bɔk.sə.ʁa/ |
boxerons /bɔk.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
boxerez /bɔk.sə.ʁe/ |
boxeront /bɔk.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | boxerais /bɔk.sə.ʁɛ/ |
boxerais /bɔk.sə.ʁɛ/ |
boxerait /bɔk.sə.ʁɛ/ |
boxerions /bɔk.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
boxeriez /bɔk.sə.ʁje/ |
boxeraient /bɔk.sə.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | boxe /bɔks/ |
boxes /bɔks/ |
boxe /bɔks/ |
boxions /bɔk.sjɔ̃/ |
boxiez /bɔk.sje/ |
boxent /bɔks/ |
imperfect2 | boxasse /bɔk.sas/ |
boxasses /bɔk.sas/ |
boxât /bɔk.sa/ |
boxassions /bɔk.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
boxassiez /bɔk.sa.sje/ |
boxassent /bɔk.sas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | boxe /bɔks/ |
— | boxons /bɔk.sɔ̃/ |
boxez /bɔk.se/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Catalan: boxar
Further readingEdit
- “boxer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer shorts.
NounEdit
boxer m (invariable)
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
boxer
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
boxer m (plural boxers)
- boxer (breed of dog)
RomanianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxeră)
- boxer (participant in a boxing match)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of boxer
SynonymsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.
NounEdit
boxer m (plural boxeri)
- boxer (breed of dog)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of boxer
ReferencesEdit
- boxer in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
SpanishEdit
NounEdit
boxer m (plural boxers)
- (proscribed) Alternative spelling of bóxer