English > container: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | Any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another). |
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| Narrower | Dumpster | A container designed to receive and transport and dump waste |
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| bag | A flexible container with a single opening |
| bag, handbag, pocketbook, purse | A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) |
| basket, handbasket | A container that is usually woven and has handles |
| bin | A container |
| bowl, pipe bowl | A small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco |
| box | A (usually rectangular) container |
| bread-bin, breadbox | A container used to keep bread or cake in |
| bunker | A large container for storing fuel |
| can, tin, tin can | airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. |
| canister, cannister, tin | metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour |
| capsule | A small container |
| cargo container | A large container for freight |
| case | A portable container for carrying several objects |
| case, display case, showcase, vitrine | A glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home |
| cassette | A container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video |
| cup | A small open container usually used for drinking |
| cylinder | A cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air |
| dice cup, dice box | A small container (open at one end) in which dice are shaken by hand and from which they are thrown |
| dish | A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food |
| dispenser | A container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts |
| drawer | A boxlike container in a piece of furniture |
| empty | A container that has been emptied |
| envelope | A flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc. |
| glass, drinking glass | A container for holding liquids / liquids while drinking |
| grab bag | A container from which a person draws a wrapped item at random without knowing the contents |
| magnetic bottle | container consisting of any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions |
| mailer | A container for something to be mailed |
| manger, trough | A container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed |
| measure | A container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance |
| mold, mould, cast | container into which liquid / liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens |
| package, parcel | A wrapped container |
| pan | shallow container made of metal |
| pod, fuel pod | A detachable container of fuel on an airplane |
| pot, flowerpot | A container in which plants are cultivated |
| powder horn, powder flask | container for carrying gunpowder |
| receptacle | A container that is used to put or keep things in |
| reliquary | A container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints) |
| saltcellar | A small container for holding salt at the dining table |
| savings bank, coin bank, money box, bank | A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home |
| scuttle, coal scuttle | container for coal |
| shaker | A container in which something can be shaken |
| spoon | A piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle |
| storage ring | container consisting of a set of magnets set in a doughnut-shaped ring around which charged particles from an accelerator can be kept circulating until they are used |
| thimble | A small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing / sewing |
| time capsule | container for preserving historical records to be discovered at some future time |
| vessel | An object used as a container (especially for liquids / liquids) |
| wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket, wastebasket, waste basket, circular file | A container with an open top |
| watering can, watering pot | A container with a handle and a spout with a perforated nozzle |
| wheeled vehicle | A vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people |
| workbasket, workbox, workbag | container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) |
| Broader | instrumentality, instrumentation | An artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end |
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| Spanish | contenedor, envase, recipiente |
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| Catalan | contenidor, envàs, recipient |
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| Verbs | contain | contain or hold |
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| containerize, containerise | package in a container |
