contain
Significado
- To hold inside.
- To include as a part.
- To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
- To have as an element or subset.
- (obsolete) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
Frecuencia
Guionizado como
con‧tain
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/kənˈteɪn/
Etimoloxía
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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