container

See also Container

English

Wikipedia

A container (sense 2)

Etymology

to contain + -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪnə(r)

Noun

container (plural containers)

1. An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
2. A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods (also cargo container).
3. (by extension) someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
4. (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.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:container

Translations

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

• Bulgarian: съд (bg) (sǎd) m
• Catalan: contenidor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 容器 (cmn) (róngqì)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: mahuti (et)
• Finnish: säiliö (fi), astia (fi)
• French: récipient (fr) m, contenant (fr) m
• German: Behälter (de) m, Behältnis (de) n, Gefäß (de) n
• Greek: δοχείο (el) (docheío) n
• Hungarian: tartály (hu)
• Irish: coimeádán (ga) m
• Italian: contenitore (it) m, recipiente (it) m
• Japanese: 容器 (ja) (ようき, yōki)
• Korean: 그릇 (ko) (geureut), 용기 (ko) (yonggi) (容器 (ko))

• Polish: pojemnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: recipiente (pt) m
• Romanian: container (ro) n, recipient (ro) m, cutie (ro) f, butelie (ro) f
• Russian: контейнер (ru) (kontɛ́jner) m, ёмкость (ru) (jómkostʹ) f, тара (ru) (tára) f, (vessel) сосуд (ru) (sosúd) m, вместилище (ru) (vmestílišče) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: контејнер (sh) m

  Roman: kontejner (sh) m

• Slovene: vsebnik (sl) m
• Spanish: recipiente (es) m
• Swedish: behållare (sv) c, kärl (sv) n
• Volapük: ninädian (vo)
• ǃXóõ: ǃnàa

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

• Arabic: حاوية (ar) (ḥāwíya) f
• Belarusian: кантэйнер (be) (kantéjnjer) m
• Bulgarian: контейнер (bg) (kontéjner) m
• Catalan: contenidor (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: kontejner (cs) m
• Estonian: konteiner (et)
• Finnish: kontti (fi)
• French: conteneur (fr) m, container (fr) m
• German: Container (de) m
• Greek: εμπορευματοκιβώτιο (el) (emporevmatokivótio) n, κοντέινερ (el) (kontéiner) n
• Hebrew: מיכל (he) (meikhal) m
• Hungarian: konténer (hu)
• Japanese: コンテナ (ja) (kontena)

• Jèrriais: cont'neux m
• Korean: 콘테이너 (ko) (konteineo)
• Macedonian: контејнер (mk) (kontéjner) m
• Polish: kontener (pl) m
• Portuguese: contêiner (pt) m
• Romanian: cutie (ro) f, container (ro) n
• Russian: контейнер (ru) (kontɛ́jner) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: контејнер (sh) m

  Roman: kontejner (sh) m

• Slovak: kontajner (sk) m
• Slovene: vsebnik (sl) m, kontejner (sl) m
• Spanish: contenedor (es) m
• Swedish: container (sv) c
• Ukrainian: контейнер (uk) (kontéjner) m

Anagrams

• crenation

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French

Etymology

From English container (during the 1920s).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔ̃tɛnɛʁ/

Noun

container f (plural containers)

1. container

Synonyms

• conteneur

Anagrams

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

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Swedish

Etymology

From English container.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔnˈtɛjnɛr/

Noun

container c

1. container

Declension

Declension of container

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	container	containern	containrar	containrarna
genitive	containers	containerns	containrars	containrarnas