container

See also: Container

Contents

EnglishEdit

A container (sense 3)

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

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. A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods (also cargo container).
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.

SynonymsEdit

• See also Wikisaurus:container

DescendantsEdit

• Portuguese: contêiner

TranslationsEdit

someone who contains; something that contains

• French: conteneur (fr) m

• Slovene: vsebnik m

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

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

  Mandarin: 容器 (zh) (róngqì)

• Esperanto: ujo
• Estonian: mahuti
• Finnish: säiliö (fi), astia (fi)
• French: récipient (fr) m, contenant (fr) m
• Galician: contedor (gl) m
• German: Behälter (de) m, Behältnis (de) n, Gefäß (de) n
• Greek: δοχείο (el) n (docheío)
• Hungarian: tartály (hu)
• Irish: coimeádán 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: receptaculum n, capsa f, olla (la) f
• Maori: tokanga
• Mongolian: сав (mn) (sav)
• Persian: کانتینر‏‎ (fa) (kânteyner)
• 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
• Thai: บรรจุภัณฑ์, หีบห่อ (hìip-hɔ̀ɔ), ภาชนะ (th) (paa-chá-ná)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kap (tr)
• Vietnamese: thùng (vi)
• Volapük: ninädian (vo)
• Zhuang: aen
• ǃXóõ: ǃnàa

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

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

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

• Czech: kontejner m
• Estonian: konteiner (et)
• Finnish: kontti (fi)
• French: conteneur (fr) m, container (fr) m
• German: Container (de) m
• Greek: εμπορευματοκιβώτιο (el) n (emporevmatokivótio)
• Hebrew: מיכל‏‎ m (meikhal)
• Hungarian: konténer (hu)
• Japanese: コンテナ (kontena)
• Korean: 콘테이너 (konteineo)
• Macedonian: контејнер 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)
• 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: контейнер m (kontéjner)

someone who holds people in their seats

file format

abstract data type

• French: conteneur (fr)

user interface component

AnagramsEdit

• cotarnine, crenation, narcotine

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English container (during the 1920s).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tɛ.nɛʁ/

NounEdit

container f (plural containers)

1. container

SynonymsEdit

• conteneur

AnagramsEdit

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

Further readingEdit

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

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English container

Alternative formsEdit

• konteiner

NounEdit

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

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

Derived termsEdit

• containerskip

ReferencesEdit

• “container” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English container

Alternative formsEdit

• konteinar

NounEdit

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

1. a container (as above)

Derived termsEdit

• containerskip

ReferencesEdit

• “container” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

container m (plural containers)

1. Alternative spelling of contêiner

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English container.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kɔnˈtɛjnɛr/

NounEdit

container c

1. container

DeclensionEdit

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