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flower box

flower box noun: a container in which flowers or plants are grown, usually affixed outside just below a window.

Noun

flower box (plural flower boxes)

  1. A container in which flowers or plants are grown, usually affixed outside just below a window.
    Synonyms:
    planter, planter box
  2. A comment in source code that spans several lines, serving to introduce the source code that follows, and bordered by asterisks.
    • To make this easier to do, set up an empty flower box and copy it into your program...1988, Computer Partners, Inc, Handbook of COBOL techniques and programming standards
    • […] you might have several lines of comments enclosed in a "flower box".1989, Cary N. Prague, James E. Hammitt, dBase IV programming

flower box meaning in Persian

flower box in Persian

flower container
فلاور باکس flâver-bâks

Examples of flower box in a sentence

  • To end the flower box, type / to specify the end of a multiple line comment.2001, Danny Ryan, Tommy Ryan, ASP.NET: your visual blueprint for creating Web applications on the .Net:
  • I then modified the code we had written earlier to include a flower box […]2002, John Smiley, Learn to program with Visual Basic.NET:

Synonyms of flower box

Forms of flower box

pluralflower boxes
alternative formflowerbox

Questions about flower box

What does flower box mean?
Flower box means a container in which flowers or plants are grown, usually affixed outside just below a window.
What is flower box in Persian?
Flower box in Persian is فلاور باکس (flâver-bâks). See Flower box meaning in Persian.
How do you use flower box in a sentence?
To end the flower box, type / to specify the end of a multiple line comment.
What part of speech is flower box?
Flower box is a noun.
What is the plural of flower box?
The plural of flower box is flower boxes.

Words near flower box in the dictionary

  1. flower beds
  2. flower beetle
  3. flower beetles
  4. flower bond
  5. flower bonds
  6. flower box
  7. flower boxes
  8. flower bug
  9. flower bugs
  10. flower car
  11. flower cars

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