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/sˈɛlfkəntˈeɪnd/ Listen

adjective

Self-contained adj.

Having self-control; reserved; uncommunicative; wholly engrossed in one's self.

(Mach.) Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself.

Self-contained steam engine.

(a)

A steam engine having both bearings for the crank shaft attached to the frame of the engine.

(b)

A steam engine and boiler combined and fastened together; a portable steam engine.

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Etymology of 'Self-contained'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Self-contained" Quotes from Famous Books

... began to see so many old castles dotted about the landscape that at last we almost ceased to notice them. It must have been nice living in one of those box-like fortress castles in old days, when all your friends had them too; so jolly and self-contained. And, as a matter of course, when you built one you had a few dungeons put in, just as one has plenty of bathrooms now in a big house. If you were of a dramatic turn of mind, you placed your dungeons mostly under your dining-hall, so you could hear the starving prisoners groan while ...

— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... both ready to laugh and jest. Tanty, satisfied to see Adrian preside at the head of the table with a grave, courteous, and self-contained manner that completely fulfilled her notions of what family dignity required of him, cracked her jokes, ate her dinner, and quaffed her cup with full enjoyment, laughing indulgently at her grand-nieces' sallies, and showing as marked a disfavour to Rupert as ...

— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle

... straight," declared Mr. Rose, proudly self-contained in his relief. "I guess there wasn't much need to worry about that part. I'll wait here and take him home with me, now; he's had about all of that room he ought to stand, fond of Gerard ...

— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram

... as though they conveyed no meaning to her. It was not nervousness. Indeed, so far from being nervous, she was absolutely self-contained. It was simply bad art. She was a ...

— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde

... Beth said nothing. She had passed through the stages of surprise, anger and bewilderment, and was now still indignant but quite self-contained. When he thought of Beth's description of the Ghost of Black Rock House, Peter was almost tempted to forget the terrors of the redoubtable McGuire. A man of his type hardly lapses into hysteria at the mere thought of a "bandy-legged ...

— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs

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