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Something that holds things, especially for transport or storage
Answer for the clue "Something that holds things, especially for transport or storage ", 9 letters:
container
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Word definitions for container in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Container \Con*tain"er\, n. One who, or that which, contains; particularly, an artifactual object that is designed to contain some fluid or solid material, object or objects, especially for convenience in transporting the contained objects. a large metallic ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A container is a basic tool , consisting of any device creating a partially or fully enclosed space that can be used to contain, store, and transport objects or materials. In commerce , it includes "any receptacle or enclosure for holding a product used ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a container port (= for ships carrying large containers ) ▪ Hamburg is one of Europe's main container ports. a sealed container/box/plastic bag ▪ The specimens he collected were sent back to London in sealed containers. ...
Usage examples of container.
She shoved the feather-light, nearly invisible aerogel container across the bar.
The aerogel container returned, its internal boundaries defined by pale rose liquid topped off with pink foam which popped and crackled musically.
Her fingers seemed to close around frozen smoke as she lifted the aerogel container.
He half led, half carried her there, where an aircraftman was just heaving the second last parachute and container through the doorway.
A group of maybe five or six bodies were hurriedly unloading their weapons and taking off their white uniforms and bundling them into what looked like Lacon boxes aluminim airfreight containers.
After half an hour, Angevine motioned to Shekel, and he, well-practiced, stood behind her and scooped pieces of coke from the container behind her back into her boiler.
Gobi saw that the Bangladeshis had perfected a technique for packing the energy effluents into long, sausage-shaped containers that they wore around their necks and down their backs.
I could make birchbark containers much faster than baskets, if only I had some hooves, bones, and hide scraps to boil for glue.
She looked through baskets and bark containers of dried meat, fruits and vegetables, seeds, nuts, and grains.
Her collection of beargrass, cattail leaves and stalks, reeds, willow switches, roots of trees, would be made into baskets, tightly woven or of looser weave in intricate patterns, for cooking, eating, storage containers, winnowing trays, serving trays, mats for sitting upon, serving or drying food.
Sleel lifted his own container as had Bergamo and dumped it onto his head.
From a compartment in the container he took a biosensor, an instrument so sensitive that at five hundred meters it registered strongly the cellular metabolism of a moth.
Lake Biwa, Cat and Hanshiro left their own calligraphy brushes in the earthenware container full of those left by worshipers.
The weapons are sealed in containers, of course, and if the Amsterdam customs are unaware of this they must be the worst, the blindest, or the most corrupt and avaricious in Europe.
Someone coshed him and stood at the lab door and flung a botulinus container against this wall closing the lab door behind him immediately afterwards.