flower box

See also: flowerbox

English

Alternative forms

• flowerbox

Noun

flower box (plural flower boxes)

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

   • 1989, Cary N. Prague, James E. Hammitt, dBase IV programming:

     […] you might have several lines of comments enclosed in a "flower box".

   • 2001, Danny Ryan, Tommy Ryan, ASP.NET: your visual blueprint for creating Web applications on the .Net:

     To end the flower box, type / to specify the end of a multiple line comment.

   • 2002, John Smiley, Learn to program with Visual Basic.NET:

     I then modified the code we had written earlier to include a flower box […]

Synonyms

• planter box
• planter

Translations

flower container

• Faroese: blómukassi m
• Finnish: kukkalaatikko (fi)
• French: jardinière (fr) f
• German: Blumenkasten (de) m
• Greek: ζαρντινιέρα (el) f (zarntiniéra)
• Icelandic: blómakassi m
• Italian: fioriera (it) f
• Persian: فلاور باکس (flâver-bâks)
• Portuguese: floreira f, jardineira (pt) f
• Spanish: jardinera f
• Swedish: blomlåda (sv) c