Hellbox

/ˈhɛl.bɒks/

/ˈhɛl.bɑːks/

Translation of "hellbox" into Russian

Noun

/ˈhɛl.bɒks/

/ˈhɛl.bɑːks/

hellbox

hellboxes pl

коробка для шрифта

The printer used a hellbox to store the discarded type.

Печатник использовал коробку для шрифта, чтобы хранить отработанный шрифт.

The office was a hellbox of papers and files scattered everywhere.

Офис был хаосом из разбросанных повсюду бумаг и файлов.

Additional translations

адская коробка

Noun

/ˈhɛl.bɒks/

/ˈhɛl.bɑːks/

A box or container used in printing shops to hold broken or worn-out type.

The printer tossed the damaged letters into the hellbox for recycling.

Discarded or broken pieces of metal type intended to be melted down and reused.

The foreman ordered that all the hellbox be melted for new type.

Verb

/ˈhɛl.bɒks/

/ˈhɛl.bɑːks/

To throw (worn or damaged type) into the hellbox; to discard as unusable.

After the final run, the compositor hellboxed the battered sorts.