In an episode of Battlestar Galactica 1, for example, the expression "out-of-the-box" is used with the meaning of non-traditional, innovative: Starbuck: Rumor mill has it that you’re planning an op. Adama: Rumor mill’s right, for a change. Captain Adama and Col. Tigh are working up a plan now and I need some serious out-of-the-box thinking.

Jun 20, 2012 · Package would connotatively imply a box or similar container with item(s) inside, usually not envelope shaped, usually it refers to a box-shaped item. As the other commenters have noted, the usage of parcel vs package is slightly different.

Feb 21, 2011 · contents [plural] : 1) the things that are inside a box, bag, room etc 2) the things that are written in a letter, book etc ; She kept the contents of the letter a secret. content [singular] the amount of a substance that is contained in something, especially food or drink; water with a low salt content

Aug 21, 2012 · Another writes, "If the photos have different aspect ratios, make sure you unselect Maintain Aspect Ratio at the bottom of the dialog box." Uncheck is considerably more common on our website than either deselect or unselect (586 unique matches in a Google search), even though it has a somewhat more precise meaning: "to remove the mark from a ...

Jonathon Green's sources (as cited in Brian Hooper's answer) notwithstanding, the limerick that appears in Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and Other Humorous …

Oct 31, 2014 · The fact that "first crack out of the box" appears in quotation marks here suggests that it is already (in 1884) a recognized idiom or set phrase in the Dakotas; the choice of the phrase is clearly tied to the pun involving "jim crack [gimcrack department," so it's hard to say what precisely the writer has in mind with regard to the longer phrase.

Usually this means something like a text-box in an entry form, where the user can type several lines of text, possibly even line breaks, tabs, etc. The example given is a "notes" column, it is not uncommon to have a field with "notes" for a customer, or a user, or a product, where a user of the software can note down some information he feels ...

May 26, 2011 · For my part, as a forms designer for software applications and websites, what I would consider the "street address" is as Malvolio said first; the line of a full address containing the curb number of your building (house or apartment) and the street. "1234 Main Street" is …

• Text box: “A text box, text field or text entry box is a kind of widget used when building a graphical user interface” • Drop-down list: “a drop-down list is a user interface control GUI element ("widget" or "control"), similar to a list box, which allows the user to choose one value from a list”

a strip, string, etc., that is pulled to open a box, wrapper, or the like Additionally, the phrase rip apart suggests a destruction of the packaging rather than a surgical opening. (When dealing with the clam-shell plastic packaging that has become common, many people experience a desire to rip apart the packaging out of sheer frustration with ...