Box

In Germany, the term "box" generally refers to a stable, usually rectangular container with or without a lid for storing objects or certain materials. From this, accommodations for living creatures (nesting box) or other distinctive areas (sandbox, hickel box) are also called "boxes".

The container is called Kiste in Austria and Switzerland (e.g. beer crate, tool crate instead of -kasten); for the meanings of Kasten in these countries, see Kasten (term explanation page).

A distinction is made between

According to content

• ash pan
• Construction kit ("building block box"), toy, see also: experimental kit
• Mailbox for mail
• Household bread box
• Pencil box, in historical school use
• Belt box, weapon part
• Car wheel arch
• Powder box, box mould in the confectionery industry
• Key box
• Ink box, painting utensil
• First-aid kit, first-aid utensil
• Toolbox
• slip box

By function

• Spawning box, in the aquarium
• Incubator, Incubator
• Moulding box, in the foundry the fixed frame for the casting mould
• God box, traditional money box in sacred buildings
• Peep-box, historical display and viewing device
• Glove box, hermetically sealed container for certain manipulations
• Germination box in malt houses
• Reading box, learning aids
• Magazine box, rifle part
• Arithmetic set, arithmetic aid
• Percussion box, Chinese musical instrument Zhu
• Sea chest, ship component
• caisson, hydraulic structure
• Setting case, for lead type in the printing industry
• Connection box, in electrical engineering

According to position or location

• Roof box, component of a house
• Drawbar box, car accessories
• Wall box, part of a building

Figuratively speaking