container
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle English conteyner, equivalent to contain + -er.
Base: contain
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: containers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who contains; something that contains.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who contains; something that contains.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
On a damp and blustery morning, three-metre swells crash into the cracked hull of the MSC Baltic III, which was grounded on a pinnacle of rock on the west coast of Newfoundland earlier this year. The wind carries whiffs of rotten egg. Salvage crews in hard hats and neon yellow jackets inch along in a temporary cable car suspended high over the churning Atlantic. In a province with a long and dangerous maritime history, the Baltic's grounding in the roiling shallows of Cedar Cove last February is a story Newfoundlanders retell with incredulity. The cargo ship, en route to Corner Brook from Montreal, lost power in the early morning of Feb. 15 during a ferocious blizzard. The ship, packed with hundreds of containers of lumber, textiles, plastic beads, legumes and car parts, plus 1,600 metric tonnes of fuel, careered into the only safe harbour along a coast of towering cliffs. All 20 crew members were airlifted off the ship in a harrowing rescue by the Royal Canadian Air Force. Over the following months, salvage crews offloaded most of the 470 containers and siphoned out the fuel, which had hardened into an asphalt-like substance, in a multistage operation that involved heating it for days. At risk were local wildlife — migratory birds and the capelin and lobster that local fish harvesters rely on for their livelihoods. The goal of the work is to ready the ship for eventual dismantling and removal from the shoreline.
gloss: Someone who contains; something that contains.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Someone who contains; something that contains.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Someone who contains; something that contains.
pos: noun
examples: This advantage is the primary incentive for using a list container, rather than a vector or a deque.
gloss: Someone who contains; something that contains.
pos: noun
examples: Flex automatically creates a TabBar container at the top of the TabNavigator container, with a tab corresponding to each child container. Each tab can have its own label and icon.
gloss: Someone who contains; something that contains.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who contains; something that contains.
pos: noun
examples: Generally, when people think of serverless computing, they tend to think of applications with back-ends that run on third-party services, also described as code running on ephemeral containers.
The application components all run in containers. They are isolated like VMs but lightweight and efficient like PaaS services.
gloss: Someone who contains; something that contains.
pos: noun
examples: As with all varieties of cryptic clues, the container device can be used in conjunction with other devices, especially in more complex cryptic crosswords.
Container word clues are actually three clues in one.
We have already mentioned 'in' having multiple uses; 'round' or 'around' might be a container indicator or a reversal indicator; 'without' might be a container indicator or a deletion indicator, and so on.
Synonyms: container
receptacle
Related words: hole
:Category:Containers
Derived words: conetainer
containerboard
container crane
container deposit
container flat
container format
containerful
containerisation
containerization
containerize
containerless
containerlike
containerload
container plant
container port
container ship
containership
container wagon
containerware
cryocontainer
cubitainer
evil container
geocontainer
keytainer
microcontainer
microtainer
nanocontainer
nanotainer
roll container
seatainer
shipping container
subcontainer
tanktainer
thermocontainer
transtainer
vacutainer
waste container
Translations:
lang: French
word: conteneur
lang: Hungarian
word: tároló
lang: Persian
word: ظرف
lang: Slovene
word: vsebnik