contain

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To hold inside.

   • The brown box contains three stacks of books.
   • a spray bottle containing water.
2. 2

   To include as a part.

   • Most of the meals they offer contain meat.
   • Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
3. 3

   To put constraints upon

   To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

   • I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself!
   • Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves.
   • [The king's] only Person is oftentimes instead of an Army, to contain the unruly People from a thousand evil Occasions.
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   1. 4

      To have as an element or subset.

      • A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements.
      • If that subgraph contains the vertex in question then it must be spanning.
   2. 5

      To restrain desire

      To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

      • But if they cannot contain, let them marry.

The neighborhood

• synonymcurb
• synonymrepress
• synonymrestrain
• synonymrestrict
• synonymstifle
• antonymexcludeantonym(s) of “include as part”
• antonymomitantonym(s) of “include as part”
• antonymreleaseantonym(s) of “limit by restraint”
• antonymventantonym(s) of “limit by restraint”
• neighborcontainer
• neighborcontainable
• neighborcontainment
• neighborcontent
• neighborcontinence