Box

Art Nouveau powder box, circa 1902, made of glass and parcel-gilt silver, in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York City)

Cake boxes

Boxes for storing various items in can often be very decorative, as they are intended for permanent use and sometimes are put on display in certain locations.

The following are some types of storage boxes :

• A jewelry (AmE) or jewellery (BrE) box, is a box for trinkets or jewels. It can take a very modest form with paper covering and lining, covered in leather and lined with satin, or be larger and more highly decorated.
• A humidor is a special box for storing cigars at the proper humidity, by means of absorbent materials that retain and moderate moisture coming from the cigars. Powered boxes can also maintain the right temperature. The Christmas Ornament Boxes play the same role to present the cigar in the precise custom ways for special Christmas and other events these are customizable boxes and present your product in a Special Way.
• A "strong box" or safe, is a secure lockable box for storing money or other valuable items. The term "strong box" is sometimes used for safes that are no longer portable boxes but are installed in a wall or floor for increased security.
• A toolbox is used for carrying tools of various kinds. The term implies a container meant for portability rather than just storage, for instance with hinged lids, clasps or locks, reinforced corners, and handles. Toolboxes are usually very sturdy, but unlike a shipping box containing dunnage, are not expected to fully protect their contents if the box is inverted or upended.
• The common storage box for tools, instruments, glassware, artworks, etc. is a sturdy box made to be longer-lasting and better-finished than a shipping box or crate. For instance, a box might be a rigid paperboard box instead of a corrugated box. Or it could be a wooden box with a sanded surface and mitered corners instead of a crude crate construction. A storage box may or may not have dunnage or cushions that protect the contents if the box is upended or shaken, and usually does not have hinges, latches or locks, but simply a cover. Boxwood gets its name from its superior properties for manufacturing this type of box, although those properties are equally useful when making a decorative box.
• A box file is used commonly in offices for storing papers and smaller files.[4]

In electrical terminology, a "box" is used to contain and protect connections, thus:

• Pattress, a box used to hold electrical switches and receptacles
• Junction box, a fixed container for joining electrical connections, frequently installed in walls and containing electrical outlets.
• Fuse box, holds electrical fuses or circuit breakers

Pillar box of 1856, at the West Gate, Warwick, England

• Post box (British English and others, also written postbox), or mailbox (North American English and others) is a physical box used to collect mail that is to be sent to a destination. Variants of post boxes for outgoing mail include:
  • Lamp box
  • Ludlow wall box
  • Pillar box
  • Wall box

Boxes, where postal workers deposit incoming mail for the recipient, include:

• Letter box (in the US usually called mailbox), positioned near or on the mail recipient's home or place of work.
• Post office box, (often abbreviated P.O. box or PO box), a box rented by the mail recipient to be an independent postal address, located in a post office or in the premises of a company offering such facilities. Self-service boxes are unlocked by the recipient, otherwise, a postal clerk retrieves the mail.

A relay box is similar to a post or mailbox, but totally locked; post office trucks deposit mail that is then retrieved and delivered by pedestrian mail carriers. In the United States, they are painted differently from collection boxes.

• Call box
• Penalty box, a booth used in many ball-team sports where a player sits to serve the time of a given penalty.
• Police box, a booth for use by police in 20th century Britain.
• Signal box, a building by a railway to coordinate and control railway signals.
• Telephone box, a booth containing a public telephone.

• Bandbox, seating for a musical band during a performance
• Box seat, semi-private seating at an arena or theatre
• Jury box, courtroom seating for a trial jury

Clear-sided ballot boxes used in the Haitian general election in 2006

Library book drop box

• Ammunition box, a metal can or box for ammunition
• Ballot box, a box in which votes (ballot papers) are deposited during voting.
• Black box, something for which the internal operation is not described but its function is.
• Box, informal reference to large box-shaped parts of a computer, such as the base unit or tower case of a personal computer.
• Box set, a compilation of items, such as books or music
• Check box, on paper, normally to check off as opinion or option.
• Coach Box or the driver's seat on a carriage coach.
• Dispatch box, (or despatch box), a box for holding official papers and transporting them.
• Event data recorder, commonly called a "black box", a durable data-recording device found in some vehicles, used to assist in the investigation of an accident.
• First aid box is a collection of supplies and equipment for use in giving first aid to someone.[5]
• Glory box or hope chest, a box or chest containing items typically stored by unmarried young women in anticipation of married life.
• Glove box, a sealed container with gloves to manipulate objects
• Jack-in-the-box, a children's toy containing a surprise.
• Kōbako, a decorative storage box
• Lunch box, or "lunch pail" or "lunch kit", a rigid container used for carrying food. Can also be decorative.
• Mitre box, a woodworking tool used to guide a hand saw to make precise miter cuts in a board.
• Nest box, a substitute for a hole in a tree for birds to make a nest in.
• Pandora's box, in Greek mythology, a jar containing the evils of mankind and also hope, mistranslated as 'box' since the 16th century.
• Pillbox, a special container for storing scheduled doses of one's medications
• Set-top box, a device used to decode and display TV signals.
• Singing bird box, an objet d'art which contains within a miniature automaton singing bird.
• Soapbox, an actual or symbolic box on which an orator stands to make a persuasive speech
• Squeezebox, a musical instrument
• Zig Zag Girl box, a box used for the Zig Zag Girl magic trick
• WeirdBox

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  A box or carton of cereal
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  Hard cigarette pack or paperboard box
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  Corrugated box used for storage of archives
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  Drink boxes
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  Milk in gable-top carton
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  Set-up box made of non-bending paperboard
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  Chinese mother of pearl lacquer box with peony decor Ming Dynasty
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  Lunch boxes
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  Fish Tank Box
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  Moving box
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  Cigar box
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  Nesting box

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• Soroka, W, "Fundamentals of Packaging Technology", IoPP, 2002, ISBN 1-930268-25-4
• Yam, K. L., "Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology", John Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-08704-6
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Box". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.