contain

动词 v.
中文释义
发音 kən-tānʹ

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To hold inside. transitive
    — The brown box contains three stacks of books.
  2. To include as a part. transitive
    — Most of the meals they offer contain meat.
  3. To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds. transitive
    — I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself!
  4. To have as an element or subset. transitive
    — A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements.
  5. To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity. intransitive,obsolete
    — But if they cannot contain, let them marry.

词形变化

contains present,singular,third-person containing participle,present contained participle,past contained past

词汇关系

近义词
curb repress restrain restrict stifle
反义词
exclude omit release vent
衍生词
containee contain multitudes contain oneself melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell self-contain
相关词
container containable containment content continence

词源

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French contenir, from Latin continēre (“to hold or keep together, comprise, contain”), combined form of con- (“together”) + teneō (“to hold”).
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