content

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Satisfied, pleased, contented.

   • You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're brave, compassionate, kind: a content man. That is your secret—contentment; I am 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit, and I don't even know what I am chasing.
2. 2

   Satisfaction, contentment

   Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.

   • They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.
   • ‘It is very difficult to […] learn to seek content, instead of happiness.’
   • ‘I understand you—upon every other subject, but the only one, my content requires, you are ready to obey me.’
3. 3

   Acquiescence without examination.

   • The sense they humbly take upon content.
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   1. 4

      That which contents or satisfies

      That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.

      • So will I in England work your grace's full content.
   2. 5

      An expression of assent to a bill or motion

      An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.

   3. 6

      A member who votes in assent.

   4. 7

      Alright, agreed.

   5. 8

      To give contentment or satisfaction to

      To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.

      • You can't have any more. You'll have to content yourself with what you already have.
      • And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
      • Do not content yourselves with meer Words and Names, lest your laboured Improvements only amass a heap of unintelligible Phrases, and you feed upon Husks instead of Kernels.
   6. 9

      To satisfy the expectations of

      To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

      • Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.
   7. 10

      Contained.

   8. 11

      That which is contained.

   9. 12

      Subject matter

      Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.

      • Although eloquently delivered, the content of the speech was objectionable.
      • You can look up the chapter on special relativity in the table of contents.
   10. 13

       The amount of material contained.

       • Light beer has a lower alcohol content than regular beer.
   11. 14

       Capacity for containing.

       • Strong ships, of great content.
   12. 15

       The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case…

       The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.

   13. 16

       The greatest common divisor of the coefficients

       The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.

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