Contain

Definition: Contain

Contain

Verb

1. Include or contain; have as a component; "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's".

2. Contain or hold; have within: "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water".

3. Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake" "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger".

4. Be divisible by; "24 contains 6".

5. Be capable of holding or containing; "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon".

6. Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in SE Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back athe tide of communism".

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Date "contain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Military

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Synonyms: Contain

Class

Include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive; inclose; (circumscribe); embody, encircle.

Composition

Include; (in a class); contain, hold, comprehend, take in, admit, embrace, embody; involve, implicate; drag into.

Crosswords: Contain

They contain powerful magnets (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)

You contain information (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank)

The toppings contain potassium benzoate (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

As though his ape's brain could contain the secrets of the Krell (Forbidden Planet; writing credit: Irving Block; Allen Adler)

I Cannot Contain Myself (In the Closet; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Michael Jackson and Teddy Riley)

New Vaccine May Contain Rabies (references; author: unknown)

Proverbs contain within one or two lines the lessons of lifetime. (references; author: unknown)

Cookie pieces contain no calories. The process of breaking causes calorie leakage. (references; author: unknown)

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References

• The World Market for Digital Processing Units Which May Contain Storage Units, Input Units, or Output Units: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Contain Yourself: 101 Fresh Ideas for Fantastic Container Gardens (reference)

• Country Living Stylish Storage: Simple Ways to Contain Your Clutter (reference)

• Eat Better, Feel Better: A Visual Directory of Foods and the Nutrients They Contain, Plus a Unique Section on Combating Common Ailments (reference)

• Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus (reference)

• Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka (reference)

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Shows photo of woman scientist working in immunology laboratory at Central Cancer Research Labs. Safes in foreground, right of photo, contain tissue culture. (1931). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

This is a scanning electron microscope image from normal circulating human blood. One can see red blood cells, several white blood cells including lymphocytes, a monocyte, a neutrophil, and many small disc-shaped platelets. Red cells are nonnucleated, and contain hemoglobin, containing iron an important protein which allows the cell to carry oxygen to other parts of the body. They also carry away carbon dioxide from the lungs. The infection-fighting white blood cells, are classified in 2 main groups: granular and agranular. Granulocytes are formed in bone marrow, agranulocytes are produced by lymph nodes and spleen. There are two types of agranulocytes: lymphocytes, fight disease by producing antibodies and thus destroying foreign material, and monocytes. Platelets are tiny cells formed in bone marrow and are necessary for blood clotting. Credit: Bruce Wetzel (photographer). Harry Schaefer (phot.

Puerto Rican boys in water which could contain the agent of bilharzia (schistosomiasis). Credit: CDC.

Domestic mosquito species are those that breed close to human habitation. Flower containers in cemeteries may contain larvae of any of the three domestic species including Culex quinquefasciatus, Culex pipiens, and Aedes aegypti. Credit: CDC.

An oil rig blew out spewing crude oil into Timbalier Bay. The rig is surrounded a boom to contain the oil. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

East Timbalier Island, booms are placed to contain oil. The island was seriously impacted by Hurricane Andrew, after the oil blow out restoration plans included creating marshes near the breaks in the island to stabilize the island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Bubble Shell, Haminoea sp. is seasonally abundant intertidally and subtidally on mud flats and sandy-mud bottomed bays from Alaska to the Gulf of California. The shell is fragile, translucent, and too small to contain the body. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

A containment structure keeps debris from clogging the oulet on this pond. The pond was originally constructed to contain sediment during the construction of the nearby development. Credit: Tim McCabe.

This housing development pond was originally constructed to contain sediment and runoff during construction. Credit: Tim McCabe.

It's not a nutty idea-pecans are good for you! They've not only got protein, potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium; but even calcium! Okay, so they contain fat too, but 95 percent of it is unsaturated. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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But these two powers, political and paternal, are so perfectly distinct and separate; are built upon so different foundations, and given to so different ends, that every subject that is a father, has as much a paternal power over his children, as the prince has over his: and every prince, that has parents, owes them as much filial duty and obedience, as the meanest of his subjects do to their's; and can therefore contain not any part or degree of that kind of dominion, which a prince or magistrate has over his subject. (Second Treatise of Government)

But these Socialist and Communist publications contain also a critical element. (reference)

These reports shall be made in such form and shall contain such particulars as the Governing Body may request. (reference)

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It appeared to contain medical preparations, one of which he mingled with a cup of water

There was no pocket so obscure that it did not contain some money and no dwelling so poor that it was not the abode of some joy.

His Dialogues, which contain what was immortal in him, lie on the next shelf, and yet I never read them

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Health

Many foods contain soluble and insoluble fiber. (references)

The lactose they contain can make diarrhea worse. (references)

The tissue may be inflamed and may contain ulcers. (references)

Business

This waste also has to contain less than 5% organic waste. (references)

Waste oils can contain traces of metals or waste combustion gases. (references)

The local fertilizers are of low concentration and contain few compound fertilizers. (references)

Children

Moldova

Various laws contain provisions against neglect of children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Brunei

Two popular electronic bulletin boards contain postings that are sometimes critical of government actions. (references)

Syria

The Government blocks access to selected Internet sites that contain information deemed politically sensitive or pornographic in nature. (references)

Discrimination

Bahamas

However, the Constitution and the law contain certain provisions that discriminate against women. (references)

Economic History

Finland

The figures do not contain peripherals. (references)

Vietnam

Foreign JVs often contain technology transfer provisions. (references)

Human Rights

Macedonia

From February to July, the Government fought to contain an ethnic-Albanian insurgency. (references)

Ethiopia

Prisoners often are allocated fewer than 21.5 square feet of sleeping space in a room that may contain up to 200 persons. (references)

Italy

He also criticized the careless handling of official records such as judicial notices and health documents that contain personal information. (references)

Political Economy

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Both laws contain grievance procedures. (references)

SWITZERLAND

The Labor Act and the Federal Code of Obligations contain extensive regulations to protect worker health and safety. (references)

COSTA RICA

Documentation and labeling of U.S. exports to Costa Rica must use the metric system and contain specific information in Spanish. (references)

Trade

Senegal

This should contain the same information as the commercial invoice. (references)

Kenya

Kenyan export regulations are generally liberal and contain few export restrictions. (references)

Moldova

The portable computer can contain encrypted and other software for which no levies will be assessed. (references)

Travel

Korea

Every mail shipment must contain a written declaration. (references)

Kenya

Passengers on inter-city buses should not accept food or drink from a new acquaintance, even a child, because such food or drink may contain narcotics used to incapacitate a victim and facilitate a robbery. (references)

Worker Rights

Morocco

A work site may contain several independent locals or locals affiliated with more than one labor federation. (references)

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Expressions using "contain": be unable to contain oneself for ♦ contain oneself ♦ contain your anger!. Additional references.

Afrikaans

bevat (comprise, include). (various references)

Albanian

përmbaj (carry, check, choke, comprise, constrain, control, Cork, detain, deter, embrace, feature, gulp, hold, hold back, hold in, include, incorporate, pocket, repress, restock, restrain, stay), përfshij (add in, comprehend, comprise, count in, cover, embrace, imply, include, incorporate, involve, mix in, reach, span, store, subsume, sweep), nxë (admit, hold, learn, seat), frenoj (apply the brakes, be an obstacle to, bit, brake, check, choke up, clog, control, Cork, damp, delay, detain, deter, fetter, guard, hamper, hang up, hedge in, hold, hold back, hold in, inhibit, interrupt, keep in, put back, rein, retard, set back, stay put, stem, stop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كبت (bridle, check, down, hold, hold back, inhibit, inhibition, keep, keep back, repress, repression, restrain, restraint, stifle, subdue, suppress, suppression, withhold), ‏كبح (arrest, bridle, check, control, curb, hamper, hinder, hold, hold back, inhibit, inhibition, keep back, keep down, keep under control, leash, master, press, prevent, rein, repress, repression, restrain, restraint, steady, subdual, subdue, suppress, suppression, tame, withhold), ‏وسع (aggrandize, amplify, broaden, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, flare, flare up, splay, widen), ‏تضمن (comprise, embodiment, guaranty, have, implicate, include), ‏ساوى (amount, come, count, crop, equal, equalize), ‏إحتوى (consist of, govern, hold, push back, smother, stem), ‏إتسع (accommodate, broaden, dilate, enlarge, expand, widen), ‏إشتمل (comprehend, comprise, embody, embrace, enclose, have, inclose, include, take in). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съдържам (comprise, encompass, hold, imply, receive), сдържам (command, guard, pocket, press back, repress, restrain, smother, stifle, suppress), заграждам (edge, encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, fence, fence in, flank, inclose, lock in, rail, shut in, stem, stop, throw around, throw round), задържам (apprehend, arrest, can, detain, deter, entrap, hold, hold back, hold off, hold over, hold up, immobilize, inhibit, keep, keep away, keep back, keep down, occlude, press back, reserve, restrain, retain, trig), побирам (accommodate, admit, carry, hold, receive, seat, sit, sleep, store, take), имам (carry, have, hold, make, own, possess, rejoice in, wear), деля се без остатък. (various references)

Chinese 

包含 (embody, include). (various references)

Czech

zahrnovat (bombard, comprehend, comprise, embody, embrace, encompass, envisage, imply, subsume), potlaèit (cork up, crush, fight down, hold back, hold in, inhibit, keep in, mince, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, scotch, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, tame), pojmout (admit, hold, include, take in), obsahovat (comprehend, comprise, encompass, hold, imply, include). (various references)

Danish

indeholde (comprise, include). (various references)

Dutch

inhouden (comprise, count down, include), bevatten (comprise, include, realise, realize, understand), behelzen (comprise, include). (various references)

Esperanto

enhavi (comprise, include). (various references)

Faeroese

hava við (bring along, comprise, include, take along). (various references)

Farsi 

محتوی بودن , خودداری کردن (Refrain, Withhold), شامل بودن (Comprise, Consist, Embrace, Encompass, Entail, Include), دارابودن (Encompass, Enjoy, Have, Owe, Own), دربرداشتن (Bear, Comport, Comprise, Embody, Encircle, Entail, Include, Presuppose), بازداشتن (Arrest, Bar, Bloc, Block, Debar, Detain, Deter, Encumber, Impede, Interdict, Prevent, Stay, Stow). (various references)

Finnish

sisältää (comprise, hold, include). (various references)

French

contenir (comprise). (various references)

German

enthalten (abstain, abstract, comprehend, comprise, covered, embody, enclose, held, hold, include, restrain, to contain, to enclose, to inclose, to include). (various references)

Greek 

περιέχω (comprise, comprize, include), περιλαμβάνω (accommodate, comprehend, comprise, comprize, include, involve), αναχαιτίζω (check, inhibit, intercert, restrain, stem, withhold). (various references)

Hebrew 

לכלול (comprehend, comprise, embrace, encompass, figure in, include, take in), לכלכל (feed, maintain, manage, nourish, provide for, sustain), להכיל (consist, hold, include). (various references)

Hungarian

visszatart (detain, hold, hold back, hold in, hold off, keep in, recoup, restrain, retain, retard, to check, to contain, to detain, to entrap, to hold back, to keep back, to keep from, to pocket, to pull, to pull up, to recoup, to repress, to restrain, to retain, to stay, withhold), tartalmaz (comprise, encompass, held, include, to comprise, to contain, to encompass, to hold, to include, to purport), magába foglal (embrace, implicate, imply, incorporate, involve, subsume, to comprehend, to comprise, to contain, to embody, to imply, to incorporate, to inhere, to subsume, to unite), feltartóztat (delay, hold back, impede, intercept, keep back, to arrest, to contain, to delay, to hang up, to hold up, to impede, to intercept, to waylay). (various references)

Indonesian

mengandung (pregnant), berisi, berintikan (have as a core), angkut (transport). (various references)

Italian

contenere (carry, comprise, contain oneself, encompass, hold, include, restrain, stem). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

含有 (include), 含む (includeone's, involve). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がんゆう (include, straight A's). (various references)

Korean 

포함하십시요 (include). (various references)

Malay

berisi (comprise, include). (various references)

Manx

streeaney (bridle, check, containment, control, curb, rein, restrain, retard, retardation), goaill stiagh (annex, annexation, comprehend; intake, comprise, include, inclusion, ingathering, take in, taking in), cummal (abode, arrest, celebrate, celebration, containment, contents, dwelling place, grip, hold, inhabit, keep, live, residence, retain), castey (appease, beat back, censor, check, choke back, counter, cure, defeat, end, freeze, freeze as loan, hitch, inhibit, preclude, staunch, stave off, suppress, throwing stones). (various references)

Papiamen

kontené (comprise, include), abarká (comprise, include). (various references)

Pig Latin

ontaincay.(various references)

Polish

zawierać (comprise, include). (various references)

Portuguese

conter (bottle, carry, comprise, hold, hold down, imply, include, refrain, restrain, rule, squelch, withhold), incluir (add, add in, comprise, count, embody, embrace, enclose, inclose, include, including, number, take in, to include). (various references)

Romanian

include (add in, comprehend, comprise, count in, cover, embosom, embrace, enclose, include, take in), cuprinde (accommodate, admit, aggregate, carry, come over, comprehend, comprise, conquer, cover, embosom, embrace, enlace, envelop, grasp, grip, Harbor, harbour, include, includes, overtake, prepossess, receive, reckon, see, seize, span), conţine (carry, comprise, encompass, hold, include, receive). (various references)

Russian 

содержать содержание, содержать (embody, keep, maintain, store, subsist, support). (various references)

Scottish

cum (celebrate, hang onto, hold, keep, retain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzdržati se (abstain, forego, hold back, refrain, restrain oneself), sadržati. (various references)

Spanish

contener (bottle up, bridle, check, comprise, control, enclose, govern, hold, hold back, hold in, include, incorporate, intercept, keep back, keep down, keep in, press back, restrain, rule, run by, smother, suppress). (various references)

Swedish

innehålla (be included, carry, comprise, include, retain). (various references)

Turkish

zaptetmek (bridle, capture, govern, hold back, hold down, hold in, keep down, possess oneself of, reave, seize, stifle, subjugate, suppress, swallow), tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), kapsamak (be inclusive of, blanket, compass, comprehend, comprise, cover, embrace, encapsulate, enclose, encompass, implicate, incapsulate, inclose, include, involve, span, subsume), ihtiva etmek (comprehend, comprise, embody), içine almak (be inclusive of, comprise, implicate, include), içermek (comprise, cover, embody, encapsulate, enclose, implicate, imply, incapsulate, inclose, include, number, span, store, subsume), frenlemek (bottle up, brake, bridle, check, curb, govern, keep in, rein back, restrain, retard), eşit olmak (amount, be equal, be equivalent to, be on a par with, be tantamount to, equate, size up, work out at). (various references)

Turkmen 

eklemek (hold, look for). (various references)

Ukrainian

стримуватися (abstain, control oneself, hold in, keep one's temper, pull up, refrain), стримувати (abate, bound, bridle, chasten, check, coerce, constrain, control, curb, deter, dominate, hold in, inhibit, moderate, pocket, rein, restrain, stay, stop, suppress, swaddle, swallow, temper), містити в собі (implicate, include, involve). (various references)

Welsh

cynnwys (comprehend, comprise, contents, hold, include). (various references)

cohibebant, cohibebo, cohibere, cohibita, contenta, contenti, contentus, contine, contineant, continebantur, continebat, continebis, continebit, continebunt, continendi, continens, continent, continentem, continentes, continentia, continentis, continentur, contineo, continere, continerent, contineret, continet, continetis, continuerit, continuerunt, continuimus, continuisti, continuit, percontinuit. (various references)

belucan. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "contain": containable, contained, container, containerboard, containerboards, containerisation, containerisations, containerise, containerised, containerises, containerising, containerization, containerizations, containerize, containerized, containerizes, containerizing, containerless, containerport, containerports, containers, containership, containerships, containing, containment, containments, contains. (additional references)

Words containing "contain": uncontainable. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Contain" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cantabit, cantain, ceannain, Centoxin, chotain, clonmain, Cointrin, comtian, conain, Conair, conating, Confait, coniacian, constaine, consttain, conta, contadino, contail, contan, contarini, Contati, conteyne, conti, contin, Contini, contio, contrain, Costaki, coutain, Crostain, cuntano, Fonstein, fontain, fontani, jotnian, lointain, lointaine, montain, Noctamid, Sonatina. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: actinon.

-1 letter: action, anoint, atonic, cannot, canton, cation, incant, nation, tannic.

-2 letters: actin, ancon, anion, antic, canon, canto, coati, conin, cotan, niton, octan, ontic, tonic.

-3 letters: anon, anti, cain, cant, ciao, cion, coat, coin, coni, conn, icon, into, iota, naoi, nona, nota, otic, taco, tain.

-4 letters: act, ain, ait, ani, ant, can, cat, con, cot, inn.

+1 letter: actinons, canonist, conation, contains, continua, countian, inaction, sanction, sonantic.

+2 letters: anticodon, antiknock, antinomic, antonymic, canonists, cantoning, carnation, cartoning, chthonian, clintonia, cognation, cognizant, conations, confidant, constrain, contagion, contained, container, continual, countians, crenation, inactions, incaution, incognita, inoculant, nicotiana, nonacting, nonaction, nonaddict, nonatomic, noncoital, nonimpact, onanistic, sanctions, stanchion, transonic, uncoating.

+3 letters: accounting, adjunction, anticodons, antiknocks, auctioning, calcitonin, canonicity, captioning, carnations, cartooning, catenation, cautioning, clintonias, codominant, coenacting, cognations, concertina, confidante, confidants, conflating, conflation, congenital, constrains, constraint, contacting, contagions, containers, containing, continuant, continuate, contrarian, coronating, coronation, crenations, cunctation, enunciator, fantoccini, functional, incautions, incitation, incogitant, incognitas, inconstant, incubation, indication, infarction, infraction, inoculants, insouciant, interocean, intoxicant, invocating, invocation, junctional, nicotianas, nonactions, nonaddicts, nonaquatic, nonascetic, noncabinet, noncapital, nonelastic, nonethical, nonplastic, nontypical, nucleation, outdancing, pentatonic, planktonic, punctation, sanctimony, sanctioned, sonicating, sonication, stanchions, transsonic, truncation, unromantic.