Meaning

9 senses
  1. Someone who contains; something that contains.

    An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.

    Behälter, Behältnis, Gefäß

    конте́йнерkontɛ́jner, ёмкостьjómkostʹ, та́раtára

  2. A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.

    Container

    конте́йнерkontɛ́jner

    конте́йнерkontéjner

    any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

  3. (broadly)Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.

  4. A file format that can hold various types of data.

  5. An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.

  6. Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

  7. A web container.

  8. A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.

  9. A type of cryptic device where one word is inserted into another.

Examples

120 sentences
  1. Dirty cutlery goes into that container.

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  2. He emptied the container of its contents.

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  3. Do you know what's in those containers?

    ruТы знаешь, что в тех контейнерах?

    deWeißt du, was sich in jenen Behältnissen befindet?

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  4. Tom poured the sugar from one container to the other.

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  5. Tom opened the freezer and took out a container of ice cream.

    deTom öffnete den Kühlschrank und nahm einen Behälter mit Eiscreme heraus.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods:
Русский
By meaning 1
an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported:
a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods:

Origin

From Middle English conteiner, equivalent to contain + -er.

From Middle English conteiner, equivalent to contain + -er.

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