shoebox

«shoebox» in Mova's school dictionary: the cardboard box that new shoes come in — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a shoebox, shoeboxes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A shoebox is the cardboard box that new shoes come in. tree →

2) A shoebox is also used to store small things, or to make crafts and school projects. tree →

3) Informally, a «shoebox» can mean a very small room or flat. tree →

sense in the lessons

At school, children make shoebox dioramas (small scenes inside a box) for science or reading projects; at home a shoebox stores photos, toys or cards. Also used for collecting gifts, like a shoebox gift appeal.

examples

• My new trainers came in a big shoebox. tree →
• We made a shoebox diorama of a rainforest. tree →
• Grandma keeps old photos in a shoebox. tree →
• The kitten fell asleep in a shoebox. tree →
• I cut a hole in the shoebox to make a puppet theatre. tree →
• Put your marbles back in the shoebox. tree →
• Their flat is tiny, like a shoebox. tree →

note

Countable noun, usually one word: «a shoebox, shoeboxes» (plural adds -es after x). Can also be written «shoe box». In maths, a shoebox is a cuboid (a rectangular box), good for practising volume = length × width × height.

In the corpora

• Mila keeps every letter in a shoebox with a ribbon round it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shoebox» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.