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Contain

verb

(past & past part. contained; pres. part. containing)

Include or contain; have as a component. Synonyms: comprise, incorporate. "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's"

Contain or hold; have within. Synonyms: bear, carry, hold. "The canteen holds fresh water" , "This can contains water"

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"

Be divisible by.

Be capable of holding or containing. Synonyms: hold, take. "The flask holds one gallon"

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

... singular that the instructions contain no reference to Botany Bay. It was the visit paid by Laperouse to this port that brought him into touch with Australian history. Yet his call there was made purely in the exercise of his discretion. He was not directed to pay any attention to eastern Australia. ...

— Laperouse • Ernest Scott

... on that contain'd us two, With ocean around and heaven above; It seem'd there was nothing for us to do But to love and live, and to ...

— Harry • Fanny Wheeler Hart

... than in a business which does not yield the laborer more than seven cents a day? This, it appears to me, is the true question for our consideration. There is no reason for saying that we will work iron because we have mountains that contain the ore. We might for the same reason dig among our rocks for the scattered grains of gold and silver which might be found there. The true inquiry is, Can we produce the article in a useful state at the same ...

— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

... the title-page of the third edition advertises, the third edition does contain materials not to be found in the second edition, it does not indicate that the second edition itself contained materials omitted from the third edition. Among the materials not reprinted were the ...

— The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1 • Samuel Johnson [AKA Hurlo Thrumbo]

... other hard substances which the waters find in their way. Where the floods which cover the surface during the rains come in rivers, flowing from the Himmalaya or other hills abounding in limestone rocks, they of course contain lime and carbonic-acid gas, which add to the kunkur nodules formed in the bed below; but in Oude the rivers seldom overflow to any extent, and the kunkur is, I believe, formed chiefly from the lime already existing in ...

— A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II • William Sleeman

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