Container

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Container \Con*tain"er\, n.
     1. One who, or that which, contains; particularly, an
        artifactual object that is designed to contain some fluid
        or solid material, object or objects, especially for
        convenience in transporting the contained objects.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. a large metallic box designed to hold many smaller boxes
        or packages, and used for convenience in loading and
        unloading large quantities of freight, such as on ships,
        trains, or airplanes.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  container
       n : 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)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "container":
     arena, cincture, close, confine, coop, court, courtyard, curtilage,
     delimited field, enclave, enclosure, field, fold, ground, list,
     pale, paling, park, pen, quad, quadrangle, square, theater, toft,
     yard