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con·tent1
[kon-tent] Pronunciation Key
[kon-tent] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | Usually, contents.
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| 2. | something that is to be expressed through some medium, as speech, writing, or any of various arts: a poetic form adequate to a poetic content. |
| 3. | significance or profundity; meaning: a clever play that lacks content. |
| 4. | substantive information or creative material viewed in contrast to its actual or potential manner of presentation: publishers, record companies, and other content providers; a flashy Web site, but without much content. |
| 5. | that which may be perceived in something: the latent versus the manifest content of a dream. |
| 6. | Philosophy, Logic. the sum of the attributes or notions comprised in a given conception; the substance or matter of cognition. |
| 7. | power of containing; holding capacity: The bowl's content is three quarts. |
| 8. | volume, area, or extent; size. |
| 9. | the amount contained. |
| 10. | Linguistics. the system of meanings or semantic values specific to a language (opposed to expression). |
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[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME (< AF) < ML contentum, n. use of neut. of L contentus (ptp. of continére to contain), equiv. to con- con- + ten- hold + -tus ptp. suffix
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| con·tent 1
(kŏn'těnt') Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English, from Medieval Latin contentum, neuter past participle of Latin continēre, to contain; see contain.] |
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| con·tent 2
(kən-těnt') Pronunciation Key
adj.
tr.v. con·tent·ed, con·tent·ing, con·tents To make content or satisfied: contented himself with one piece of cake. n. Contentment; satisfaction. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin contentus, past participle of continēre, to restrain; see contain.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| contents | |
noun | |
| a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Contents
Con*tents\ (? or ?; 277), n. pl. See Content, n.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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