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Container

noun

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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"Container" Quotes from Famous Books

... is introduced into an apparatus called an interchanger and is allowed to escape through a valve, causing it to turn to a liquid. This liquid air is sprayed onto plates and as it falls, the nitrogen return to its gaseous state and leaves the oxygen to run to the bottom of the container. This liquid oxygen is then allowed to return to a gas and is stored in large gasometers ...

— Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting • Harold P. Manly

... spake unto his section head, saying: "It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... the kernels must be artificially cured until they no longer feel moist to the hand when it is run through the container. ...

— Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... compressed air container of all was to be employed. It distributed great volumes of compressed air to all the water tanks, forcing open the valves and driving out ...

— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham

... funnel-shaped openings shaped and painted like mouths. By standing on tiptoe Jason looked on top but there was only a flanged, sooty opening that must be for attachment of a smokestack. There was only one more opening, a smallish one in the rear, and no other controls on the garish container. ...

— The Ethical Engineer • Henry Maxwell Dempsey

... METONYMY is where the cause is put for the effect, or the effect for the cause; the container for the thing contained; or the ...

— English Grammar in Familiar Lectures • Samuel Kirkham

... have frustrated a dangerous plot by an enemy government. The river bottom seems to be paved with those cases. They've taken out a dozen already. One of them was opened, and, just as expected, it proved to be a water-tight container for smokeless powder! ...

— The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service • James R. Driscoll

... the owner of copyright* in the sound recording, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner. If the producer of the sound recording is named on the phonorecord label or container and if no other name appears in conjunction with the notice, the producer's name shall be considered a part of the notice. Example: (P in a circle ...

— Supplementary Copyright Statutes • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.

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