contain
IPA: kʌntˈeɪn
verb
- (transitive) To hold inside.
- (transitive) To include as a part.
- (transitive) To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
- (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
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Examples of "contain" in Sentences
- The containers are in storage.
- Chocolates contain saccharine.
- Are the chemicals contained in the root
- The cover encloses the open portion of the container.
- Does the title contain one that isn't in my dictionary?
- What Night mainly wishes he could contain is pretty girls in bikinis.
- The base includes a passsage communicable with the container interior.
- A hermetic seal is affected between the container flange and the cover.
- The following is what the back cover of the paperback edition contains.
- The e-mails contain a code word to receive a discount, Whittington said.
- The 1633 quarto contains prefatory poems, including one by James Shirley.
- Tillman Road WMA contains approximately, including an 80 acre cattail swamp.
- Beer contains nutriment; it includes more or less albumen, sugar, gluten, hops, and alcohol.
- We would prefer that the new name contain the word “sweets” in it, although that is not a steadfast criteria.
- Some printings of this title contain both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, and, What Alice Found There.
- Deep ocean layers are supposed to stay cold, the amount of CO2 they contain is immense, not to mention billions of tons of a much more potent greenhouse gas, methane hydrate.
- Trans fats are formed during food processing when hydrogen is added to to make it solidify; foods that list so-called partially hydrogenated vegetable oil on the label contain trans fat.
- Me, too: hardcover series books about countries of the world, mammals of Asia, rocks and minerals of the fifty states, etc. still proliferate like crazy, even though the information they contain is available all over the digital place.
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