单词 | container |
释义 | containern. He who or that which contains, esp. a receptacle designed to contain or store certain articles; spec. a large box-like receptacle of standardized design for the transportation of freight by road, rail, or sea (see quots.). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] receivera1398 resetc1400 receipta1425 receptaclec1425 repository1485 receptorya1500 pot1503 container?1504 hold1517 containing?1541 continent?1541 receptable1566 nest1589 conceptacle1611 keep1617 house1625 reception1646 inholder1660 conceptaculum1691 penholder1815 holder1833 carrier1855 compactum1907 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > container or package for goods > [noun] > large, of standardized design container1930 ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) ii. xxv. 218 Thy worde forsayd is short & conteyner of great perfeccyon. 1592 S. Daniel Complaint Rosamond (1717) 61 Fair Eyes, Containers of my Bliss. 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 175 Their Notion of Place is to be a Container. 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric (1812) I. xiv. 339 The relation between the container and the thing contained. 1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. App. 218 ‘The kettle boils’, is a phrase where the name of the container is substituted for that of the thing contained. 1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice iii. i. 235 The only being, and the container of all forces to be. 1925 N. E. Odell in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 331 Certain modifications had..been deemed advisable, especially in the cylinder containers. 1928 Daily Mail 25 July 4/3 This practical japanned metal container for soiled linen. 1930 Engineering 30 May 709/1 The container-car service, by which less than car loads were carried in portable steel containers. 1933 Meccano Mag. Mar. 200/2 ‘Containers’..are box-like structures of timber or pressed steel resembling the top of a covered wagon..fitted with ringbolts and may be slung..from the low-sided or flat wagon on which they are..carried, and they may then be mounted on road lorries and carted to any required point. 1966 Evening Standard 2 Mar. 11/5 The Americans, in the forefront of the container-ship development.., will send the first ‘container-liner’ across the Atlantic... Most of her cargo space will now be devoted to 20 and 40 ft. containers which can be handled easily on road or rail. 1967 Times Rev. Industry Feb. 67/3 British Rail, despite the difficulties over open terminals, are now carrying 1,200 containers a week. 1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 6 More container berths are under construction. 1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 6 Twelve deep~sea containership berths are in operation. 1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 6 Timetables revised to incorporate the new fast container trains as they go into service. 1969 Lebende Sprachen 14 65/2 The Clyde Port Authority plans to bring its Greenock container terminal into operation later this year. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1504 |
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