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A diorama or shallow display case, usually with a glass front.
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Simply constructed of wood, a shadowbox sign frame 6 inches deep, 11 inches wide and 70 inches long is suspended over the stairway of the Scott Sotre, 124 Fifth Avenue, Jamestown, N.D.
To build a shadowbox into the normal sort of hollow-core wall, we first have to make darned sure where we want the thing, for once you start making a shadowbox, there's no going back unless you panel over the whole area with a new surface.
If you are going to make shadowboxes your hobby, your first consideration must be the room in which you want to place the shadowbox, not the room you want to build inside the shadowbox.
He put the shadowbox in Daddy's hands . When my father opened his eyes and recognized a display case neatly arranged with new or nearly new specimens of all of his missing World War II medals , badges , ribbons , and insignia, my father literally leapt from his seat with joy.
A rectangular display area that is set off with a frame or drop shadow.
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This book will show you how to make fabulous origami shadowbox frames to display your art in a beautiful and original way!
Display the movie with a shadowbox effect by clicking the Aspect Ratio button.of mine Luisa Ramirez.
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This will eventually be framed in a shadowbox, I imagine.
A box with a light inside used for reading X-ray images.
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Q. All right. Would they be of any significance in showing the jury through a shadowbox? A. I think they helped confirm the diagnosis.
Q. Doctor, insofar as the condition of her back is concerned, would you be good enough to put the shadowbox up again, please?
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To what extent is the x-ray shadowbox used in the medical profession?
A shade that surrounds a lit display or screen to make it easier to read in bright environments.
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In cases where it is difficult or impossible to reduce room illumination to this value, viewing of the projected image may be improved by providing the screen with a light shield, commonly known as a shadowbox .
A shadowbox extending 270 ° around the diode showed that the beam was reasonably uniform.
Verb
To display in a shadowbox.
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This is also the time to decide which photos will be shadowboxed, which ones will be popped up, and which will lie flat on the paper.
The trailer walls were covered with collectable plates, framed fan art, and shadowboxed phasers and tricorders.
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Awesome is shadowboxed images that float above the site and make your image pop off the screen.
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To practice moves without an actual opponent, often in front of a mirror.
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He was shadowboxing to keep fit and practice before the big fight.
The fighter starts to shadowbox in front of them.
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McAfferty giggled, then stepped back and shadowboxed, jabbing the air with his little fists.
He shadowboxed harder than anyone I had seen before, and I soon developed that habit, too.
To engage in evasive maneuvers; to avoid addressing something directly.
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He wrapped himself forever in the garden of his mind showered with golden cataclysms, sun-explosive and shadowboxed all patentcy of death.
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But, he knew, like all the other firms they had to shadowbox around the issue until things got awkward and it was apparent they had discussed everything in the world but money.
The situation now clearly demanded the U.S. Army. Yet throughout the day Republican George Romney and the White House shadowboxed.
To argue with an imaginary enemy.
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Without being shadowboxed into psychedelic fears about losing Japan as a trader or as a friend — let us remind our Government today that Japan wants what we have and we want them to get what we have but not at the expense of our economy or at an unfair price.
No one here is calling for Joe Peacock to be ostracized. We’re calling him on his bullshit. Brave of you to shadowbox all those non-existent censors though.
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The majority of the pages in the dissent are directed at an opinion no longer in existence. Indeed much of the dissent continues to shadowbox with an opinion we never wrote.
Verb
go through boxing motions without an opponent
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