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container

[ kuhn-tey-ner ]

noun

  1. anything that contains or can contain something, as a carton, box, crate, or can.
  2. a large, vanlike, reuseable box for consolidating smaller crates or cartons into a single shipment, designed for easy and fast loading and unloading of freight.


container

/ kənˈteɪnə /

noun

  1. an object used for or capable of holding, esp for transport or storage, such as a carton, box, etc
    1. a large cargo-carrying standard-sized container that can be loaded from one mode of transport to another
    2. ( as modifier )

      a container ship

      a container port



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Word History and Origins

Origin of container1

1400–50 for an earlier sense; 1495–1505 container fordef 1; late Middle English conteiner; contain, -er 1

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Example Sentences

After walking block after block holding that container, he had suddenly discarded it and was now clutching a gun.

They should be brought out one at a time and used immediately, rather than possibly leaving a container open.

We fill every container, bucket and bathtub in the house and it lasts us until the next time.

As a test, Sun shipped over a container stuffed with apparel made in his home province.

A heavy trowel is used to retrieve a mass of your chosen kind of ice cream from its tub and put it in the cardboard container.

He reached into the plastic container and drew forth a handful of brownish objects that smelled to Kieran like dried fruit.

The most common relations are cause and effect, container and thing contained, and sign and the thing signified.

An empty cigarette box can be easily changed to a useful container for talking-machine needles, as shown in the sketch.

Misagàsà ang sag-ub nga natumba sa batu, The bamboo container went crack when it fell on the stones.

Ikay nagsalsag sa sag-ub, You broke the bamboo tube water container into slivers.

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