container

See also: Container

English

A cargo container (sense 3)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈteɪnə/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈteɪnɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)

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.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:container

3. (transport) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.

   Synonyms: cargo container, shipping container

   • 1963 April, “Beyond the Channel: France: Freight stock of the future”, in Modern Railways, page 269:

     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.

   • 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.

   Synonym: container format

   • 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.
   • 2015, Ivor Horton, Using the C++ Standard Template Libraries, Apress, →ISBN, page 64:

     This advantage is the primary incentive for using a list container, rather than a vector or a deque.

7. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
   • 2007, Rich Tretola; Simon Barber; Renaun Erickson, Professional Adobe Flex 2, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 62:

     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.

9. (computing) A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.

   Synonym: software container

   • 2017, Maddie Stigler, Beginning Serverless Computing, Apress, →ISBN, page 1:

     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.

Derived terms

• container flat
• containerization
• containerize
• container port
• container ship
• container wagon
• shipping container

 

Descendants

• → Danish: container
• → Dutch: container
• → French: container
• → German: 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)
• Assamese: টেমা (tema), বৈয়াম (boiam)
• Bashkir: һауыт (hawït)
• Bulgarian: съд (bg) m (sǎd)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: contenidor (ca) m
• Cherokee: (for liquids) ᎠᏟᏍᏙᏗ (atlisdodi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 容器 (zh) (róngqì)

• Danish: beholder (da)
• Dutch: bak (nl) m
• Esperanto: ujo (eo)
• 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 (ca) 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 (he) m (meikhal)
• Hungarian: konténer (hu)
• Indonesian: kontainer
• Italian: container (it) m
• Japanese: コンテナ (kontena)
• Korean: 콘테이너 (konteineo)
• Macedonian: конте́јнер m (kontéjner)
• Malay: kontena

• Mongolian: чингэлэг (mn) (chingeleg)
• 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: (Brazil) contêiner (pt) m, (Portugal) contentor (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)
• Vietnamese: công-te-nơ, côngtenơ

someone who holds people in their seats

file format

• Finnish: säiliömuoto

• Hungarian: konténer (hu), konténerfájl, tárolófájl
• Polish: kontener (pl) m, pojemnik (pl) m

abstract data type

• Finnish: kokoelma (fi)

• French: conteneur (fr)
• Polish: kontener (pl) m, pojemnik (pl) m

user interface component

• Finnish: säiliö (fi)

Further reading

• container on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• anorectin, 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈtɛj.ner/, /konˈtaj.ner/

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

Anagrams

• canterino, citeranno, incanterò, incornate, narcotine, recintano, roncinate

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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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Romanian

Etymology

From English container.

Noun

container n (plural containere)

1. shipping container

Declension

Declension of container

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) container	containerul	(niște) containere	containerele
genitive/dative	(unui) container	containerului	(unor) containere	containerelor
vocative	containerule		containerelor

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English container.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈteineɾ/, [kõn̪ˈt̪ei̯.neɾ]

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