content
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kəntĕnt'
ipa: /kənˈtɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɛnt/
ipa: /ˈkɔn.tɛnt/
enpr: kŏn'tĕnt
ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɛnt/
rhymes: -ɔntɛnt
rhymes: -ɒntɛnt
rhymes: -ɑntɛnt
enpr: kəntĕnt'
ipa: /kənˈtɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: contents
Etymology: From Middle English content (plural contentes, contence), from Latin contentus, past participle of continēre (“to hold in, contain”), as Etymology 1, above. English apparently developed a substantive form of the adjective, which is not mirrored in Romance languages.
Senses: synonyms: contents
glosses: That which is contained.
examples: text: Although eloquently delivered, the content of the speech was objectionable.
text: You can look up the chapter on special relativity in the table of contents.
text: Hugh admitting that he never had, and moreover that he couldn’t read, Mrs Varden declared with much severity, that he ought to he even more ashamed of himself than before, and strongly recommended him to save up his pocket-money for the purchase of one, and further to teach himself the contents with all convenient diligence.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 21.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: In the future, instead of bottles of dead "content," I imagine electronically defined venues, where minds residing in bodies scattered all over the planet are admitted, either by subscription or a ticket at a time, into the real-time presence of the creative act.
ref: 2000 October, John Perry Barlow, “The Next Economy Of Ideas”, in Wired, →ISSN:
text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
glosses: Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
examples: text: Some online video creators upload new content every day.
text: Prolific creators manage their voluminous content with any of various content management systems.
glosses: Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
One or more creative works.
examples: text: doing it for the content
glosses: Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
One or more creative works.
The potential of creative work for a content creator.
examples: text: Light beer has a lower alcohol content than regular beer.
glosses: The amount of material contained.
examples: text: Strong ships, of great content.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Capacity for containing.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: ring theory
glosses: The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
raw_tags: of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain
Derived terms: adult content
content clause
content coupling
content creator
content determination
content farm
content filtering
contentful
content gap
content house
content key
content knowledge
contentless
content management system
content mill
content note
content psychology
content repository
contentual
content warn
content warning
contentwise
content word
content wrangling
decontent
e-content
fat content
geocontent
geo-content
Hausdorff content
immunocontent
learning content management system
metacontent
microcontent
noncontent
nontent
open content
sponcon
sponsored content
subcontent
table of contents
thin content
water content
web content