container
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English conteyner, equivalent to contain + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈteɪnə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈteɪnɚ/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]container (plural containers)
- Someone who contains; something that contains.
- An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:container
- (transport) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.
- Synonyms: cargo container, shipping container
- 1963 April, “Beyond the Channel: France: Freight stock of the future”, in Modern Railways, page 269:
- Will container development merely bring about a substitution for the body of the covered wagon? Probably not, in his view, but he believes that the size and tonnage of the container are likely to increase pari passu with the lifting capacity of handling appliances.
- 2020 May 20, Industry Insider, “An online boost for freight”, in Rail, page 68:
- The specifiers of the Freightliner network had the foresight to base the rail journey on carrying ISO containers which are 8ft wide and originally 8ft tall (although now increased to a height of 9ft 6ins), with a variety of lengths.
- (by extension) Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
- (computing)
- (file format) A file format that can hold various types of data.
- Synonym: container format
- 2011, Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey, Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools, page 187:
- As the MP4 container can store audio, video, or both, the M4A naming and file extension is used to hint that this MP4 container holds solely audio information.
- (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
- (graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
- (Java programming language) A web container.
- (cloud computing) A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.
- Synonym: software container
- (file format) A file format that can hold various types of data.
Derived terms
[edit]- conetainer
- containerboard
- container crane
- container deposit
- container flat
- containerful
- containerisation
- containerization
- containerize
- containerless
- containerlike
- containerload
- container port
- container ship
- containership
- container wagon
- containerware
- cryocontainer
- cubitainer
- geocontainer
- keytainer
- microcontainer
- microtainer
- nanocontainer
- nanotainer
- roll container
- seatainer
- shipping container
- subcontainer
- tanktainer
- thermocontainer
- transtainer
- vacutainer
- waste container
Descendants
[edit]- → Danish: container
- → Dutch: container
- → French: container
- → German: Container
- → Greek: κοντέινερ (kontéiner)
- → Japanese: コンテナ
- → Korean: 컨테이너 (keonteineo)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: container, konteiner
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: container, konteinar
- → Brazilian Portuguese: contêiner, container
- → Russian: контейнер (kontejner)
- → Spanish: container
- → Swahili: kontena
- → Swedish: container
Translations
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Further reading
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English container.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]container m (plural containers, diminutive containertje n)
- cargo container
- Synonym: vrachtcontainer
- dumpster or domestic recycling bin, large waste container
- Synonyms: afvalcontainer, vuilcontainer
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: kontainer
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English container (during the 1920s).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]container f (plural containers)
Descendants
[edit]- → Turkish: konteyner
- → Vietnamese: công-te-nơ
Further reading
[edit]- “container”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English container.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]container m (invariable)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ container in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
[edit]- container in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]container m (definite singular containeren, indefinite plural containere, definite plural containerne)
- a container (large metal box for transporting goods)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “container” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]container m (definite singular containeren, indefinite plural containerar, definite plural containerane)
- a container (large metal box for transporting goods)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “container” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]container m (plural containers)
- Alternative spelling of contêiner
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English container.
Noun
[edit]container n (plural containere)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) container | containerul | (niște) containere | containerele |
genitive/dative | (unui) container | containerului | (unor) containere | containerelor |
vocative | containerule | containerelor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English container.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]container m (plural containers)
- container
- Synonym: contenedor
Further reading
[edit]- “container”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English container. First attested in 1936.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]container c
- a container (cargo container)
- Hypernym: lastbärare
- två containrar föll överbord
- two containers fell overboard
- a dumpster
- Synonyms: sopcontainer, avfallscontainer
- Släng soporna i containern
- Throw the garbage in the dumpster
- Det kan vara farligt att leka i en container
- Playing in a dumpster can be dangerous
Declension
[edit]Declension of container | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | container | containern | containrar, containers | containrarna |
Genitive | containers | containerns | containrars, containers | containrarnas |
Derived terms
[edit]- avfallscontainer (“dumpster”)
- fraktcontainer (“shipping container”)
- godscontainer (“cargo container”)
- lastcontainer (“cargo container”)
- sopcontainer (“dumpster”)
References
[edit]- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/eɪnə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/eɪnə(ɹ)/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Transport
- English terms with quotations
- en:Computing
- en:File formats
- en:Object-oriented programming
- en:Graphical user interface
- en:Java programming language
- en:Containers
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːnər
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- French terms borrowed from English
- French terms derived from English
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- fr:Containers
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian unadapted borrowings from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛjner
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛjner/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Italian/ajner
- Rhymes:Italian/ajner/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from English
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from English
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms spelled with C
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms spelled with C
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Romanian terms borrowed from English
- Romanian unadapted borrowings from English
- Romanian terms derived from English
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
- Spanish unadapted borrowings from English
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/eineɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/eineɾ/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
- Swedish terms derived from English
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish terms with usage examples
- sv:Containers