container

CEFRA2

/kənˈteɪ.nə/

noun

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Deep Dive

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This food will keep for a week in an airtight container.
The specifiers of the Freightliner network had the foresight to base the rail journey on carrying ISO containers which are 8ft wide and originally 8ft tall (although now increased to a height of 9ft 6ins), with a variety of lengths.
As with all varieties of cryptic clues, the container device can be used in conjunction with other devices, especially in more complex cryptic crosswords.

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The specifiers of the Freightliner network had the foresight to base the rail journey on carrying ISO containers which are 8ft wide and originally 8ft tall (although now increased to a height of 9ft 6ins), with a variety of lengths.
2020 May 20, Industry Insider, “An online boost for freight”, in Rail, page 68
Will container development merely bring about a substitution for the body of the covered wagon? Probably not, in his view, but he believes that the size and tonnage of the container are likely to increase pari passu with the lifting capacity of handling appliances.
1963 April, “Beyond the Channel: France: Freight stock of the future”, in Modern Railways, page 269
As the MP4 container can store audio, video, or both, the M4A naming and file extension is used to hint that this MP4 container holds solely audio information.
2011, Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey, Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools, page 187
This advantage is the primary incentive for using a list container, rather than a vector or a deque.
2015, Ivor Horton, Using the C++ Standard Template Libraries, Apress, →ISBN, page 64
Flex automatically creates a TabBar container at the top of the TabNavigator container, with a tab corresponding to each child container. Each tab can have its own label and icon.
2007, Rich Tretola, Simon Barber, Renaun Erickson, Professional Adobe Flex 2, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 62

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From Middle English conteyner, equivalent to contain + -er.