flower box en · NOUN
Meanings
- A container in which flowers or plants are grown, usually affixed outside just below a window.
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A comment in source code that spans several lines, serving to introduce the source code that follows, and bordered by asterisks.
To end the flower box, type / to specify the end of a multiple line comment.
2001, Danny Ryan, Tommy Ryan, ASP.NET: your visual blueprint for creating Web applications on the .Net:I then modified the code we had written earlier to include a flower box […]
2002, John Smiley, Learn to program with Visual Basic.NET:[…] you might have several lines of comments enclosed in a "flower box".
1989, Cary N. Prague, James E. Hammitt, dBase IV programming: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...
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| flower boxes | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| flowerbox | alternative | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (12)
pt floreira (flower container) · es jardinera (flower container) · is blómakassi (flower container) · pt jardineira (flower container) · fa فلاور باکس (flower container) · fi kukkalaatikko (flower container) · de Blumenkasten (flower container) · sv blomlåda (flower container) · el ζαρντινιέρα (flower container) · fo blómukassi (flower container) · fr jardinière (flower container) · it fioriera (flower container)