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Pomodoro Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Out-of-the-box

Hi all

Could somebody tell me what the adjective "out-of-the-box" means?
What I found in my dictionary does not sound convincing,
it says "creative" or "original".

In my context the word modifies "templates".
"Out-of-the-box templates" sounds like, to me at least, "templates
that you can start using as they are".
Could anyone confirm that?

Regards,

Pom
  

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com! I tend to agree with you that "Out-of-the-box" relates to something you can use immediately. "Outside the box", on the other hand, relates to creative, original, non-traditional something.

— MountainHiker

  • com!
  • I tend to agree with you that "Out-of-the-box" relates to something you can use immediately.
  • "Outside the box", on the other hand, relates to creative, original, non-traditional something.
  • Joe wanted his best and brightest designers to use "outside the box" thinking to develop a new PC tablet that could be used "out-of-the-box" with no setup required.
  • com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ out of the box Hardware that has just been removed from its original carton and plugged in or software just removed from its original package and installed.
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Pomodoro,

Welcome to EnglishForward.com!

I tend to agree with you that "Out-of-the-box" relates to something you can use immediately.

"Outside the box", on the other hand, relates to creative, original, non-traditional something.

Joe wanted his best and brightest designers to use "outside the box" thinking to develop a new PC tablet that could be used "out-
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Hi MountainHiker

Thanks a million for your posting!
It does help a lot.

Best regards

Pom
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