Container
[kən'teɪnə] or [kən'tenɚ]
Definition
(noun.) 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).
Checked by Lionel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, contains.
Editor: Rae
Examples
- This gave them an airtight container for the meat and enabled them to keep smoked meats all during the summer months. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The container is then forced by the pump against an elongated die of the size of the pipe required. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The container for the fluid and the pump were thus combined and the extinguisher had the general appearance of those now on the market. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Thus in one modification a machine is had for making lead pipes:--A container is filled with molten lead and then allowed to cool. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It consists of a cylindrical container with a solution of sodium bicarbonate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And when life's expansion demands some new container, nothing is more difficult than the realization that the old vessels cannot be stretched to the present need. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Checker: Olivier