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Meanings of container in English

Russian
тара
Portuguese
recipiente
Spanish
recipiente
Catalan
contenidor
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Any receptacle for holding a product used in storage, packaging, and shipping.

      тара
      Russian
      контейнер
      Portuguese
      container
      Catalan
      contenidor

      Software class, data structure, or abstract data type (ADT) whose instances are collections of other objects.

            контейнер

            Software that emulates a whole computer by means of an isolated user-space environment running on top of the operating system's kernel.

                Usage of container in English
                1
                Three container ships crossed the new waterway, state news agency MENA reported.
                Reuters
                2
                A book is just a container for text, not its natural home.
                Wired
                3
                Simply ask the restaurant to put your food in this container instead.
                News.com.au
                4
                Health indicators exist at the instance, database, tablespace, and tablespace container levels.
                Backup & recovery
                5
                This week, however, container flats started to look a little less ingenious.
                The Guardian
                6
                The important bit is to leave absolutely no air inside the container.
                The black prism
                7
                To save the oil, simply cool and store in a sealed container.
                The everything chinese cookbook: from wonton soup to sweet and s...
                8
                The official said about 150 bodies were stored in the truck's container.
                Reuters
                9
                A large container ship has run onto a reef off New Caledonia.
                Radio NZ
                10
                The container remained on the ground near the shot-tower during the detonation.
                Project Trinity, 1945-1946
                11
                Iranian patrol boats had shadowed a separate container ship earlier last month.
                Reuters
                12
                Wrap in foil or place in plastic container and refrigerate until needed.
                The Perdue Chicken Cookbook
                13
                It is active in the container logistics and upstream oil value chains.
                Reuters
                14
                At first we used a plastic container with Lego as simple obstacles.
                Wired
                15
                Reno let go the lead container with both hands and grabbed him.
                Go home, stranger
                16
                That's meant it's not safe to operate the container terminal, he said.
                Radio NZ
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