container.
Someone who contains; something that contains.
Meaning & usage
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.
Someone who contains; something that contains. Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
Someone who contains; something that contains. A file format that can hold various types of data.
Someone who contains; something that contains. An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
Someone who contains; something that contains. Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
Someone who contains; something that contains. A web container.
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.
Someone who contains; something that contains. A type of cryptic device where one word is inserted into another.
Where this word comes from
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.
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