Contains
[kən'teinz]
Examples
- This machine contains a number of rotating beaters and high-pressure streams of water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It contains as fundamental truths as have been uttered about education in conjunction with a curious twist. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This case, I presume, contains the coronet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Each series contains an emanation, or gas, which through the loss of α particles is transformed into the next following member of the series. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The heat-treating department contains about seventy-five large furnaces, which consume from 5,000 to 6,000 gallons of fuel oil per day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The whitening is done by boiling the pins in a large copper kettle, which also contains layers of grained tin and a solution of argol or bitartrate of potash. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- That is true; yet neither will it be a very small State which contains all these. Plato. The Republic.
- According t o Avogadro the water vapor contains twice as many atoms of hydrogen as of oxygen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But a system of property always contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But it contains many fine passages and thoughts which are for all time. Plato. The Republic.
- Flint glass contains lead; the lead makes the glass dense, and gives it great refractive power, enabling it to bend and separate light in all directions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Near the bottom of the apparatus is a bellows O, which contains a spring tending to keep the lever N, with which it is connected by a rod X, in the position shown. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It is called olefiant gas, and contains equal measures of hydrogen gas and carbon vapour; its specific gravity is 0. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The more people a party contains the less it expresses their needs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I think it contains a colour-box, pencils, and paper. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- We never have any impression, that contains any power or efficacy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It contains fragments of Miocene mastodon and rhinoceros teeth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The atmosphere, which we ordinarily think of as a storehouse of oxygen, contains far more nitrogen than oxygen, since four fifths of its whole weight is made up of this element. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This department contains also a 2,500-ton press of similar design. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This incubator contains the germs of modern water heaters. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The peanut, for example, contains 43% of fat, 30% of proteids, and only 17% of carbohydrates; the Brazil nut has 65% of fat, 17% of proteids, and only 9% of carbohydrates. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The neighbourhood of Stamford, on the Derwent, contains some memorials of the battle. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Why, there are only eighty people who have heard you called so, and the world contains hundreds of millions. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You may read the note before you deliver it, that you may know that it contains nothing harmful to Zat Arras. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The seignorage in France raises the value of the coin higher than in proportion to the quantity of pure gold which it contains. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Each department contains all of the necessary machinery to complete every operation on each part or piece it produces. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In a small bulk it frequently contains the price of a great quantity of rude produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This crane-way contains over 67,000 square feet of floor space. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In England, as the coinage costs nothing, the current coin can never be much more valuable than the quantity of bullion which it actually contains. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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