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Contain   /kəntˈeɪn/   Listen
Contain

verb
(past & past part. contained; pres. part. containing)
1.
Include or contain; have as a component.  Synonyms: comprise, incorporate.  "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's"
2.
Contain or hold; have within.  Synonyms: bear, carry, hold.  "The canteen holds fresh water" , "This can contains water"
3.
Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits.  Synonyms: check, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate.  "Hold your tongue" , "Hold your temper" , "Control your anger"
4.
Be divisible by.
5.
Be capable of holding or containing.  Synonyms: hold, take.  "The flask holds one gallon"
6.
Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.  Synonyms: arrest, check, hold back, stop, turn back.  "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia" , "Contain the rebel movement" , "Turn back the tide of communism"



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"Contain" Quotes from Famous Books



... Antarctic Lands The Southern Lands consist of two archipelagos, Iles Crozet and Iles Kerguelen, and two volcanic islands, Ile Amsterdam and Ile Saint-Paul. They contain no permanent inhabitants and are visited only by researchers studying the native fauna. The Antarctic portion consists of "Adelie Land," a thin slice of the Antarctic continent discovered and claimed by the French ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... riches and poverty, on honor and reproach, on suffering and glory, though regarded by some with shyness and distrust, contain a ...
— Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again - A Life Story • Joseph Barker

... asked to see the deed which, on thinking the matter over, seemed to him to contain the solution of the enigma. Birotteau drew the fatal stamped paper from his pocket and gave it to Monsieur de Bourbonne, who read it rapidly and soon came ...
— The Vicar of Tours • Honore de Balzac

... gravestone of a standard-bearer, from the neighbouring station of Procolitia, shows a full-length carving of the dead warrior. Other inscribed stones are of great interest, though unfortunately most of them are but fragments; still these fragments not infrequently contain a few words which enable students of them to confirm a date or a fact concerning the garrisons, which must otherwise have been a matter of pure conjecture. For instance, it might seem very improbable that the same regiments should have been ...
— Northumberland Yesterday and To-day • Jean F. Terry

... with his clear orb, is reflected from the opposite image of a mirror. With difficulty does she endure delay; hardly does she now defer her joy. Now she longs to embrace him; and now, distracted, she can hardly contain herself. He, clapping his body with his hollow palms, swiftly leaps into the stream, and throwing out his arms alternately, shines in the limpid water, as if any one were to cover statues of ivory, or ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso


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