Crossword-Solution: CONTAIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contain | v. t. | To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. |
| Contain | v. t. | To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks. |
| Contain | v. t. | To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds. |
| Contain | v. i. | To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CONTAIN | anagram | ACTINON, CANTINO, ICANNOT, NOICANT |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTAIN (5)
But goe with speed, And what thy stores contain, bring forth and poure Abundance, fit to honour and receive Our Heav’nly stranger; well we may afford Our givers thir own gifts, and large bestow From large bestowd, where Nature multiplies Her fertil growth, and by disburd’ning grows More fruitful, which instructs us not to spare.
Sometimes it won't include the full name of the person (in this case The President), and may look different, but it should always contain an email address of some form.
Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and self-parody.
The phial, to which I next turned my attention, might have been about half-full of a blood-red liquor, which was highly pungent to the sense of smell and seemed to me to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether.
Economic aid: This entry refers to bilateral commitments of official develop- ment assistance (ODA), which is defined as government grants that are administered with the promotion of economic development and welfare of LDCs as their main objective and are concessional in character and contain a grant element of at least 25%, and other official flows (OOF) or transactions by the official sector whose main objective is other than development motivated or whose grant element is below the 25% threshold for ODA.
Quotes with CONTAIN (3)
Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your …
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1999–2025).