contain
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
contain/kənˈteɪn/
▶verb
- 1 have or hold within.
- 2 control or restrain.
■ prevent (a problem) from becoming worse.
- 3 (of a number) be divisible by (a factor) without a remainder.
– derivatives
containable adjective.
containable adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. contenir, from L. continere, from con- ‘altogether’ + tenere ‘to hold’.
'contain' also found in these Oxford entries:
amino acid
- aorist
- arenavirus
- Avogadro's law
- azo dye
- boom
- calzone
- cancer
- capacity
- carbohydrate
- content
- content
- continent
- countenance
- cup
- disaccharide
- dither
- einkorn
- embody
- embrace
- emmer
- froth
- goji berry
- green algae
- Haversian canal
- hexose
- hold
- include
- isotope
- jaborandi
- jewellery
- multistage
- nux vomica
- oligonucleotide
- oligopeptide
- oxyacid
- panel heating
- pentose
- periwinkle
- plain flour
- receptacle
- sabadilla
- sideband
- skirt
- snakeroot
- spelt
- torrid
- triose
- trisaccharide
