Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In comp. psychol., a box or pen in which animals are confined for experimental purposes, and from which they may release themselves by clawing a string, pressing a lever, etc.
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Examples
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That comes of Harry dying so inconsiderately and leaving this puzzle-box on my hands.
CHAPTER XXV 2010
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I persuaded him to believe that the universe was a hoax ... a puzzle-box.
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Tessa DeCarlo on Lives in the Brooklyn Rail: "By turns witty and horrifying, moving and puzzle-box clever, visually delicious and morally profound, it dramatizes the terrible price a society pays when it destroys trust in pursuit of security."
GreenCine Daily: The Lives of Others and The Decomposition of the Soul. 2007
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Once again, the gang is confronted by trap doors, puzzle-box desks, invisible maps, and treasure-hiding caves.
NATIONAL TREASURE 2: BOOK OF SECRETS | Obsessed With Film 2008
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The true brilliance of the film is how it slides genre elements along side one another; like the puzzle-box of the films central conceit.
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The Time Cube desk-clock slowly rotates through a variety of angular, geometric forms like a Clive Barker puzzle-box, snapping into cube-shape at noon and midnight.
- Boing Boing 2006
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Opening it was like figuring out the combination to the Hellraiser puzzle-box: Pull this tab, fold that, perforate this, slice open that.
Baby Steps to Adulthood Michelle Collins 2006
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Opening it was like figuring out the combination to the Hellraiser puzzle-box: Pull this tab, fold that, perforate this, slice open that.
Archive 2006-02-01 Michelle Collins 2006
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Sometimes, Sky Ape achieves heights of puzzle-box surreality that is comparable to The Invisibles.
SKY APE: KING OF GIRLS AiT/PlanetLar, 2005 David Campbell 2006
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Close beside her, on a low chair, sat a little fair-haired girl, about seven years old, who was going through some pretence at needlework; and kneeling on a higher chair, while she sprawled over the drawing-room table, was another girl, some three years younger, who was engaged with a puzzle-box.
The Claverings 2005
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