Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

flower box

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English

Syllables: flow-er box
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A container in which flowers or plants are grown, usually affixed outside just below a window.

noun

A comment in source code that spans several lines, serving to introduce the source code that follows, and bordered by asterisks.

Example Sentences

"1988, Computer Partners, Inc, Handbook of COBOL techniques and programming standards To make this easier to do, set up an empty flower box and copy it into your program..."
"[…] you might have several lines of comments enclosed in a "flower box"."
"To end the flower box, type / to specify the end of a multiple line comment."
"I then modified the code we had written earlier to include a flower box […]"

Inflected Forms

flower boxes (plural) flowerbox (alternative)

Synonyms

planter planter box

Questions

What does flower box mean?: A container in which flowers or plants are grown, usually affixed outside just below a window.

How to pronounce flower box

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