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container en · NOUN

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/kənˈteɪ.nə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *tn̥eh₁yéti Proto-Italic *tenēō Latin teneō Latin contineōder. Latin continērelbor. Old French contenirbor. Middle English conteinen Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English conteiner English container From Middle English conteiner, equivalent to contain + -er.

Meanings

Someone who contains; something that contains. ▸ An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
Someone who contains; something that contains. ▸ A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.
- The specifiers of the Freightliner network had the foresight to base the rail journey on carrying ISO containers which are 8ft wide and originally 8ft tall (although now increased to a height of 9ft 6ins), with a variety of lengths. 2020 May 20, Industry Insider, “An online boost for freight”, in Rail, page 68:
- Will container development merely bring about a substitution for the body of the covered wagon? Probably not, in his view, but he believes that the size and tonnage of the container are likely to increase pari passu with the lifting capacity of handling appliances. 1963 April, “Beyond the Channel: France: Freight stock of the future”, in Modern Railways, page 269:
- On a damp and blustery morning, three-metre swells crash into the cracked hull of the MSC Baltic III, which was grounded on a pinnacle of rock on the west coast of Newfoundland earlier this year. The wind carries whiffs of rotten egg. Salvage crews in hard hats and neon yellow jackets inch along in a temporary cable car suspended high over the churning Atlantic. In a province with a long and dangerous maritime history, the Baltic's grounding in the roiling shallows of Cedar Cove last February is a story Newfoundlanders retell with incredulity. The cargo ship, en route to Corner Brook from Montreal, lost power in the early morning of Feb. 15 during a ferocious blizzard. The ship, packed with hundreds of containers of lumber, textiles, plastic beads, legumes and car parts, plus 1,600 metric tonnes of fuel, careered into the only safe harbour along a coast of towering cliffs. All 20 crew members were airlifted off the ship in a harrowing rescue by the Royal Canadian Air Force. Over the following months, salvage crews offloaded most of the 470 containers and siphoned out the fuel, which had hardened into an asphalt-like substance, in a multistage operation that involved heating it for days. At risk were local wildlife — migratory birds and the capelin and lobster that local fish harvesters rely on for their livelihoods. The goal of the work is to ready the ship for eventual dismantling and removal from the shoreline. 2025 December 29, Lindsay Jones, “A Newfoundland winter brings new risks to Coast Guard's biggest-ever operation. Crews at mercy of the elements as they work to clean up grounded ship”, in The Globe and Mail, page A1:
(broadly) Someone who contains; something that contains. ▸ Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
(qualifier:file format) Someone who contains; something that contains. ▸ A file format that can hold various types of data.
- As the MP4 container can store audio, video, or both, the M4A naming and file extension is used to hint that this MP4 container holds solely audio information. 2011, Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey, Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools, page 187:
(qualifier:object-oriented programming) Someone who contains; something that contains. ▸ An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
- This advantage is the primary incentive for using a list container, rather than a vector or a deque. 2015, Ivor Horton, Using the C++ Standard Template Libraries, Apress, →ISBN, page 64:
Someone who contains; something that contains. ▸ Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
- Flex automatically creates a TabBar container at the top of the TabNavigator container, with a tab corresponding to each child container. Each tab can have its own label and icon. 2007, Rich Tretola, Simon Barber, Renaun Erickson, Professional Adobe Flex 2, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 62:
(qualifier:Java programming language) Someone who contains; something that contains. ▸ A web container.
(qualifier:cloud computing) Someone who contains; something that contains. ▸ A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.
- The application components all run in containers. They are isolated like VMs but lightweight and efficient like PaaS services. 2020, Elton Stoneman, chapter 1, in Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, →ISBN:
- Generally, when people think of serverless computing, they tend to think of applications with back-ends that run on third-party services, also described as code running on ephemeral containers. 2017, Maddie Stigler, Beginning Serverless Computing, Apress, →ISBN, page 1:
(qualifier:crosswording) Someone who contains; something that contains. ▸ A type of cryptic device where one word is inserted into another.
- Container word clues are actually three clues in one. 2013 July 1, John P.Stewart, Don't Let Cryptic Crossword Clues Fool You: Intellectual Stimulation and Mental Alertness Guaranteed, Booktango, →ISBN:
- We have already mentioned 'in' having multiple uses; 'round' or 'around' might be a container indicator or a reversal indicator; 'without' might be a container indicator or a deletion indicator, and so on. 2020 August 20, Telegraph Media Group Ltd, The Telegraph: How To Solve a Cryptic Crossword: Mastering cryptic crosswords made easy, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 23:
- As with all varieties of cryptic clues, the container device can be used in conjunction with other devices, especially in more complex cryptic crosswords. 2012 June 13, Denise Sutherland, Solving Cryptic Crosswords For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 48:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
containers	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (165)

de Gefäß (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · de Behältnis (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · la receptaculum (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ka სათავსი (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ms kontena (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · fa فراهمشلان (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · sh kontejner (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · ru сосу́д (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · mn чингэлэг (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · la capsa (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · es envase (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · vi công-te-nơ (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · fi säiliömuoto (file format) · fi säiliö (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · tr konteyner (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · nrf cont'neux (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · it container (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · fa کانتینر (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · fr container (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · sl zabojnik (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · ga coimeádán (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · cmn 容器 (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · bg конте́йнер (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · hi डिब्बा (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · fr récipient (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · sl vsebnik (someone who contains; something that contains) · sv behållare (user interface component) · ka კონტეინერი (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · uli kantenoer (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · fr contenant (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · nn konteinar (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · sl vsebnik (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · th บรรจุภัณฑ์ (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · nn container (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · fr conteneur (someone who contains; something that contains) · as বৈয়াম (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · grc σκεῦος (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · chr ᎠᏟᏍᏙᏗ (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · mk конте́јнер (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · fi kontti (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · fr conteneur (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · th คอนเทนเนอร์ (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · th ภาชนะ (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · lv tvertne (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · cs kontejner (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · sl kontejner (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · fa بارگنج (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · et konteiner (abstract data type) · ru конте́йнер (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · fi säiliö (user interface component) · vo ninädian (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · sw kontena (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · hu konténer (file format) · ga gabhdán (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · hu konténer (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · hy կոնտեյներ (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · sk kontajner (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · ru та́ра (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · cmn 集裝箱 /集装箱 (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · ko 콘테이너 (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · km ធុង (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · nl bak (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ko 용기 (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ru конте́йнер (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · bg съд (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · tr konteyner (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · nb container (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · uk конте́йнер (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · es contenedor (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · ga árthach (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ro cutie (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · mn ᠻᠣᠨ᠋ᠲ᠋ᠧᠶᠢᠨᠧᠷ (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · nb konteiner (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · ga soitheach (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · eo ujo (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · mn ᠴᠢᠩᠭᠡᠯᠢᠭ᠌ (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · vi côngtenơ (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · vi thùng (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ja 容器 (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · sl vsebnik (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · pt contêiner (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · nmn ǃnàa (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · fr conteneur (abstract data type) · pdt Jefäss (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · no beholder (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ar حَاوِيَة (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · el δοχείο (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · be кантэ́йнер (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · fi kokoelma (abstract data type) · de Container (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · pl pojemnik (file format) · hu tároló (someone who contains; something that contains) · pl kontener (file format) · et mahuti (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · tr kap (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · pl kontener (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · hu tárolófájl (file format) · fa ظرف (someone who contains; something that contains) · ko 그릇 (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ja コンテナ (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · el εμπορευματοκιβώτιο (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · pl pojemnik (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ka საცავი (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · th หีบห่อ (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · pl pojemnik (abstract data type) · nl container (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · hu konténerfájl (file format) · ca contenidor (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · es recipiente (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · id kontainer (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · ka ჭურჭელი (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · txb tāsi (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · pl kontener (abstract data type) · pt contentor (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · ro recipient (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ro container (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · ru вмести́лище (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · es cuchumbo (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · sv behållare (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · et konteiner (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · grc ἄγγος (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · sh контејнер (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · mn контейнер (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · cmn 貨櫃 /货柜 (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · th ตู้คอนเทนเนอร์ (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · hy տարա (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · tl lalagyan (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · it recipiente (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · hy անոթ (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · sv kärl (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · hu tartály (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · de Behälter (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · mn сав (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · fi astia (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · grc ἀγγεῖον (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ro cutie (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · et konteiner (file format) · lv konteiners (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · mi tokanga (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · la olla (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · nl vrachtcontainer (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · es container (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · la vās (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · pt recipiente (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ba һауыт (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · pdt Behelta (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · it contenitore (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · da beholder (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ca contenidor (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · ne भाँडा (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · as টেমা (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ka კონტეინერი (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · gl contedor (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ro container (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ru ёмкость (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · fa کانتینر (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · hi बक्सा (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · hi पात्र (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · he מיכל (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · ang fæt (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · sv container (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods) · hu tartó (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · ro butelie (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · za aen (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported) · lo ຈອກ (an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported)

wikidata: Q167772 · wikidata: Q987767 · wikidata: Q1180158

container en · NOUN

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