contain

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From Middle English, from Old French contenir, from Latin continere (to hold or keep together, comprise, contain), combined form of con- (together) + teneō (to hold).

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contain (third-person singular simple present contains, present participle containing, simple past and past participle contained)

  1. (transitive): To hold inside.
  2. (transitive): To include as a part.
  3. (transitive): To limit through restraint.
  4. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element.
    A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements.
    If that subgraph contains the vertex in question then it must be spanning.
  5. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
    But if they can not contain, let them marry. — 1 Cor. vii. 9.

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