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container
  1. Someone who contains; something that contains.
  2. An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
  3. (transport) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.
  4. (by extension) someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
  5. (computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.
  6. (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
  7. (computing) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “Toast up a batch on a weekend, and you can store it in an airtight container for weeks.”
      “The soft container was made of leather and of a size designed to contain a package of tobacco therein.”
      “When planting a tall container, consider vining plants, like ornamental sweet potato or setcresia.”
containment
  1. (uncountable) The state of being contained.
  2. (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
  3. (uncountable, countable) Something contained.
  4. (uncountable, countable) a policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.
  5. (countable) a physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
  6. (mathematics) an inclusion
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “If you think you can work out a containment system where all the defense wonks have failed, have at it.”
      “This U.S. military support, a remnant of America's Cold War containment policy, prevents China from using force to end the impasse.”
      “The role of the geosphere itself as a chemical containment barrier is relatively difficult to evaluate.”
containership
  1. (object-oriented programming) The conceptual containment of one object inside another.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Typically, port operators are able to load as many as 600 containers onto a single containership.”
      “September 2006 saw the entry into service of the largest containership afloat, Emma Maersk, for trading between China and Europe.”
      “In October 2007, the world containership fleet reached 12.5 million TEUs, with 135 containerships of 8,000 TEU and above in service.”
containerload
containerisation
  1. (chiefly Britain) Alternative spelling of containerization
  2. Examples:
    1. “Both projects aim to seize on an opportunity to ease the growing congestion in Europe's ports caused by the boom in containerisation.”
      “Yes, but, sir, the docks at Maput are undergoing a rolling programme of containerisation.”
      “With containerisation, the demand for space would be much less.”
containership
  1. Alternative spelling of container ship
  2. Examples:
    1. “Typically, port operators are able to load as many as 600 containers onto a single containership.”
      “September 2006 saw the entry into service of the largest containership afloat, Emma Maersk, for trading between China and Europe.”
      “In October 2007, the world containership fleet reached 12.5 million TEUs, with 135 containerships of 8,000 TEU and above in service.”
containerization
  1. the act of containerizing
  2. Examples:
    1. “The segments include source of supply, depot, consolidated containerization point, port, supply support activity, and customer receipt.”
      “Intermodalism and containerization facilitate and optimize cargo transfer without the need for intermediate handling of container contents.”
      “New containerization, packaging, and materials-handling developments will promote speed.”
containerful
  1. As much as a container can hold.
containant
  1. (archaic) A container.
containing
containerizations
  1. plural of containerization
containerloads
containerships
  1. plural of containership
containersful
  1. plural of containerful
containerfuls
  1. plural of containerful
containments
  1. plural of containment
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The safety of the containments of both tank sizes is ensured through pre-determined minimum wall thicknesses dependent on the tank material.”
      “The pressure in the pressure vessels and containments of reactors one and two is reported to be stable.”
      “Instead, they seek to improve the cost containments, even raising the possibility of a public option.”
containants
  1. plural of containant
containings
containers
  1. plural of container
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Bulk quantities of spices can be accommodated in a storage system that will hold these items in large containers.”
      “Plastic pints have significantly expanded consumer acceptability of milk in single-serve containers.”
      “The containers continued to arrive around the clock for the next several days.”
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