anything that contains or can contain something, as a carton, box, crate, or can.
a large, vanlike, reuseable box for consolidating smaller crates or cartons into a single shipment, designed for easy and fast loading and unloading of freight.
Origin of container
1400–50 for an earlier sense; 1495–1505 for def. 1; late Middle English conteiner;see contain, -er1
In one set of experiments, he stressed the animals by trapping them inside a wire-mesh container for 30 minutes.
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Some TVs can’t decode certain formats, like DTS or Dolby Atmos, which means this trick won’t work on movies encoded in those containers.
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Engineer Charles Carron of Grenoble, Switzerland, suggested that a 40-foot-long, 20,000-pound, bullet-shaped container should be added to the tower’s silhouette.
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Officers then carried out an hours-long raid on the publication’s offices, cordoning off large sections of the newsroom and carting away containers full of confiscated material, as the newspaper’s staff live-streamed the proceedings.
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The carved stone container holds a miniature llama or alpaca carved from a spiny oyster shell and a gold sheet rolled into a cylinder about the length of a paperclip, the scientists report in the August Antiquity.
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After walking block after block holding that container, he had suddenly discarded it and was now clutching a gun.
Exclusive: Inside a Cop-Killer’s Final Hours|Michael Daly|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They should be brought out one at a time and used immediately, rather than possibly leaving a container open.
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We fill every container, bucket and bathtub in the house and it lasts us until the next time.
Beating Cancer & Dodging Israel's Bombs|Itay Hod|September 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As a test, Sun shipped over a container stuffed with apparel made in his home province.
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Why is it that Greek Gods honey-flavored Greek yogurt seems wholesome, even though each 24-ounce container has 99 grams of sugar?
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Tentatively he pulled at the container cover, it was as firm as if it had been welded on.
Warning from the Stars|Ron Cocking
I suggest that as soon as we have dug a deep hole in the desert the hood and container be buried and forgotten about.
The Ethical Engineer|Henry Maxwell Dempsey
Again he filled the container and rode back to his friend, who was delighted.
Captured by the Arabs|James H. Foster
Soak overnight, and next morning put the beans in the container, cover, and leave them in a warm place.
Let's Use Soybeans|Anonymous
After they are in place the container may be filled with denatured alcohol, and the burners lighted and placed under the boiler.
Boys' Book of Model Boats|Raymond Francis Yates
British Dictionary definitions for container
container
/ (kənˈteɪnə) /
noun
an object used for or capable of holding, esp for transport or storage, such as a carton, box, etc
a large cargo-carrying standard-sized container that can be loaded from one mode of transport to another