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Meaning of flower box | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A container in which flowers or plants are grown, usually affixed outside just below a window.
  2. A comment in source code that spans several lines, serving to introduce the source code that follows, and bordered by asterisks.

Equivalents

Čeština truhlík vrhlík
Deutsch Blumenkasten
Ελληνικά ζαρντινιέρα
Español jardinera
Français jardinière
Italiano fioriera
Português floreira jardineira

Examples

“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...”
“[…] you might have several lines of comments enclosed in a "flower box".”
“To end the flower box, type / to specify the end of a multiple line comment.”
“I then modified the code we had written earlier to include a flower box […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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