container

See also: Container

English

A container (sense 3)

Etymology

From Middle English conteyner, equivalent to contain +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈteɪnə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈteɪnɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪnə(r)

Noun

container (plural containers)

1. Someone who contains; something that contains.
2. An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
3. (transport) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.

   Synonym: cargo container

   • 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.

4. (by extension) Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
5. (computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.
   • 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.

6. (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
7. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:container

Hyponyms

• (computing): branch container

Derived terms

• container flat
• container port
• container ship
• container wagon
• shipping container

 

Descendants

• → Danish: container
• → Dutch: container
• → French: container
• → Norwegian Bokmål: container, konteiner
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: container, konteinar
• → Portuguese: contêiner, container
• → Russian: контейнер (kontejner)
• → Spanish: container
• → Swedish: container

Translations

someone who contains; something that contains

• French: conteneur (fr) m
• Hungarian: tároló (hu)

• Slovene: vsebnik m

an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported

• Armenian: տարա (hy) (tara), անոթ (hy) (anotʿ)
• Bashkir: һауыт (hawït)
• Bulgarian: съд (bg) m (sǎd)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: contenidor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 容器 (zh) (róngqì)

• Danish: beholder (da)
• Dutch: bak (nl) m
• Esperanto: ujo
• Estonian: mahuti (et)
• Finnish: säiliö (fi), astia (fi)
• French: récipient (fr) m, contenant (fr) m
• Galician: contedor (gl) m
• Georgian: კონტეინერი (ḳonṭeineri), საცავი (sacavi), სათავსი (satavsi), ჭურჭელი (č̣urč̣eli)
• German: Behälter (de) m, Behältnis (de) n, Gefäß (de) n
• Greek: δοχείο (el) n (docheío)

  Ancient: σκεῦος n (skeûos), ἀγγεῖον n (angeîon), ἄγγος n (ángos)

• Hungarian: tartály (hu), tartó (hu)
• Irish: coimeádán m, soitheach m, árthach m, gabhdán m
• Italian: contenitore (it) m, recipiente (it) m
• Japanese: 容器 (ja) (ようき, yōki)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 그릇 (ko) (geureut), 용기 (ko) (yonggi) (容器 (ko))
• Lao: please add this translation if you can

• Latin: vās (la) n, receptaculum n, capsa f, olla (la) f
• Maori: tokanga
• Mongolian: сав (mn) (sav)
• Nepali: भाँडा (bhā̃ḍā)
• Norwegian: beholder
• Persian: کانتینر‎ (fa) (kânteyner)
• Plautdietsch: Behelta m, Jefäss m
• Polish: pojemnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: recipiente (pt) m
• Romanian: container (ro) n, recipient (ro) m, cutie (ro) f, butelie (ro) f
• Russian: конте́йнер (ru) m (kontɛ́jner), ёмкость (ru) f (jómkostʹ), та́ра (ru) f (tára), (vessel) сосу́д (ru) m (sosúd), вмести́лище (ru) n (vmestílišče)
• Slovene: vsebnik m
• Spanish: recipiente (es) m
• Swedish: behållare (sv) c, kärl (sv) n
• Tagalog: lalagyan
• Thai: บรรจุภัณฑ์, หีบห่อ (hìip-hɔ̀ɔ), ภาชนะ (th) (paa-chá-ná)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tocharian B: tāsi
• Turkish: kap (tr)
• Vietnamese: thùng (vi)
• Volapük: ninädian (vo)
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: aen
• ǃXóõ: ǃnàa

a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods

• Arabic: حَاوِيَة‎ (ar) f (ḥāwiya)
• Armenian: կոնտեյներ (hy) (konteyner)
• Belarusian: кантэ́йнер m (kantéjnjer)
• Bulgarian: конте́йнер (bg) m (kontéjner)
• Catalan: contenidor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集裝箱 (zh), 集装箱 (zh) (jízhuàngxiāng)

• Czech: kontejner m
• Dutch: container (nl) m, vrachtcontainer m
• Estonian: konteiner (et)
• Finnish: kontti (fi)
• French: conteneur (fr) m, container (fr) m
• Georgian: კონტეინერი (ḳonṭeineri)
• German: Container (de) m
• Greek: εμπορευματοκιβώτιο (el) n (emporevmatokivótio)
• Hebrew: מיכל‎ m (meikhal)
• Hungarian: konténer (hu)
• Italian: container (it) m
• Japanese: コンテナ (kontena)
• Korean: 콘테이너 (konteineo)
• Macedonian: конте́јнер m (kontéjner)
• Malay: kontena

• Mongolian: чингэлэг (mn) (čingeleg)
• Norman: cont'neux m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: container m, konteiner m

  Nynorsk: container m, konteinar m

• Persian: کانتینر‎ (fa) (kânteyner), بارگنج‎ (fa) (bârgonj)
• Polish: kontener (pl) m
• Portuguese: contêiner (pt) m
• Romanian: cutie (ro) f, container (ro) n
• Russian: конте́йнер (ru) m (kontɛ́jner)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: контејнер m

  Roman: kontejner (sh) m

• Slovak: kontajner m
• Slovene: vsebnik m, kontejner m
• Spanish: contenedor (es) m
• Swedish: container (sv) c
• Thai: คอนเทนเนอร์, ตู้คอนเทนเนอร์
• Turkish: konteyner (tr)
• Ukrainian: конте́йнер m (kontéjner)

someone who holds people in their seats

file format

• Finnish: säiliömuoto

• Hungarian: konténer (hu), konténerfájl, tárolófájl

abstract data type

• Finnish: kokoelma (fi)

• French: conteneur (fr)

user interface component

• Finnish: säiliö (fi)

References

• container on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cotarnine, crenation, narcotine

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English container.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔnˈteː.nər/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: con‧tai‧ner
• Rhymes: -eːnər

Noun

container m (plural containers, diminutive containertje n)

1. cargo container

   Synonym: vrachtcontainer

2. dumpster or domestic recycling bin, large waste container

   Synonyms: afvalcontainer, vuilcontainer

Derived terms

• afvalcontainer
• containerbegrip
• containerhaven
• containerschip
• vuilcontainer
• vrachtcontainer

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French

Etymology

From English container (during the 1920s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tɛ.nɛʁ/

Noun

container f (plural containers)

1. container

   Synonym: conteneur

Further reading

• “container” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• actionner, connaitre, connaître, encornait, reconnait, reconnaît, renonçait

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Italian

Etymology

From English container.

Noun

container m (invariable)

1. (cargo) container (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods)

Derived terms

• containerizzare

Further reading

• container in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• konteiner

Etymology

From English container.

Noun

container m (definite singular containeren, indefinite plural containere, definite plural containerne)

1. a container (large metal box for transporting goods)

Derived terms

• containerhavn
• containerskip

References

• “container” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• konteinar

Etymology

From English container.

Noun

container m (definite singular containeren, indefinite plural containerar, definite plural containerane)

1. a container (large metal box for transporting goods)

Derived terms

• containerskip

References

• “container” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Noun

container m (plural containers)

1. Alternative spelling of contêiner

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Spanish

Etymology

From English container.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈteineɾ/, [kõn̪ˈt̪ei̯neɾ]

Noun

container m (plural containers)

1. container

   Synonym: contenedor

Further reading

• “container” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Swedish

Etymology

From English container.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔnˈtɛjnɛr/

Noun

container c

1. container

Declension

Declension of container
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	container	containern	containrar	containrarna
Genitive	containers	containerns	containrars	containrarnas