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Noun: container  kun'teynu(r)
  1. 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)

Derived forms: containers

See also: contain, containerize

Type of: instrumentality, instrumentation

Encyclopedia: Container

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