Meaning

3 senses
  1. Of a product, immediately, without intervention from the customer.

    This software has to work out of the box, without any fancy installation.

    (direkt) einsatzfähig, gebrauchsfertig, von der Stange

    из коро́бкиiz koróbki

  2. (figuratively)Outside the box; unconventionally: outside the limits of conventional thinking.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See out of, the, box.

Examples

49 sentences
  1. Tom took everything out of the box.

    ruТом вытащил всё из коробки. — marafon

  2. Let's find out what's in that box.

  3. Tom started taking things out of the box.

    deTom begann, Dinge aus der Kiste zu nehmen. — Zaghawa

  4. Tom couldn't figure out how to open the box.

  5. Tom tried figure out how to open the box.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
(idiom) immediately, without intervention from the customer:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
(idiom) immediately, without intervention from the customer:

Synonyms

5 synonyms
laterallyoutside the boxoff the shelfoutside of the boxOOTB

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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