Definitions for contains

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contains con·tain

Spelling: [kuh n-teyn]

IPA: /kənˈteɪn/

Contains is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 334 anagrams from letters in contains (acinnost).

Definitions for contains

verb (used with object)

1. to hold or include within its volume or area:
2. to be capable of holding; have capacity for:
3. to have as contents or constituent parts; comprise; include.
4. to keep under proper control; restrain:
5. to prevent or limit the expansion, influence, success, or advance of (a hostile nation, competitor, opposing force, natural disaster, etc.):
6. to succeed in preventing the spread of:
7. Mathematics. (of a number) to be a multiple of; be divisible by, without a remainder:
8. to be equal to:

Origin of contains

1250-1300; Middle English conte(y)nen Anglo-French contener, Old French contenir Latin continēre, equivalent to con- con- + tenēre to hold (see t

Examples for contains

A band should definitely go to the health-care workers and soldiers who are working to contain Ebola.

They are very sour and do not contain sugar in any quantity.

Another characteristic is the large number of articles which they contain.

They sacrifice their shelter to contain the walkers—and Judith gets her first action scene!

On such an occasion, a month after the wedding, she could not contain herself.

And while the stories may contain caveats, the initial headlines certainly did not.

Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

With better tools we will proceed to dig into these mounds and discover what they contain.

The sequels will contain anything from the Expanded Universe.

Green plants in pre-flowering stages may contain significant protein but not fat.