container

  • 1Container — may refer to: Items used to contain, store, and transport products, such as: Carton Bottle Can (disambiguation), several meanings Shipping containers include Crate Wooden box Intermodal container, aka Ship container or Cargo container Twenty foot …

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  • 2container — [ kɔ̃tɛnɛr ] n. m. • 1932; mot angl. « récipient; contenant » ♦ Anglic. ⇒ conteneur(recomm. offic.). ● conteneur ou container nom masculin (anglais container) Caisse de dimensions normalisées utilisée pour la manutention, le stockage ou le… …

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  • 3container — container/vehicle A container or vehicle, which has been built, equipped and approved to meet specific standards of construction and security. HM Customs & Revenue Glossary * * * container con‧tain‧er [kənˈteɪnə ǁ ər] noun [countable] 1.… …

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  • 4container — Any equipment used to hold more than one mailpiece. The term includes a sack, pouch, hamper, nutting truck, basket, letter tray or flat tray and a variety of boxes and carts. Mail transport equipment used to move mail in plant or between… …

    Glossary of postal terms

  • 5container — CONTÁINER, containere s.n.1. Ambalaj în formă de rame, lăzi etc. care serveşte la transportul materialelor sau al produselor. 2. Recipient destinat încărcării utile a unei rachete. – Din engl. container. Trimis de IoanSoleriu, 01.11.2005. Sursa:… …

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  • 6Container — Sm normierter Großbehälter erw. fach. (20. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. container, einer Ableitung von ne. contain enthalten , aus frz. contenir, aus l. continēre umfassen , zu l. tenēre halten und l. con .    Ebenso nndl. container, nfrz.… …

    Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • 7Container — Container: Bei dem Fremdwort mit der Bedeutung »(genormter) Großbehälter« handelt es sich um eine seit der 1. Hälfte des 20. Jh.s nachgewiesene Entlehnung aus gleichbed. engl. container, einer Ableitung des Verbs to contain. Dieses ist über frz.… …

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  • 8Container — 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] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 9Container — Container. См. Обойма. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …

    Словарь металлургических терминов

  • 10container — index catchall, coffer, depository, enclosure, repository Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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