different between container vs bellows

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?te?n?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?te?n?/
• Rhymes: -e?n?(r)

Noun

container (plural containers)

1. Someone who contains; something that contains.
2. An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:container

3. (transport) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.

   Synonyms: cargo container, shipping container
4. (by extension) Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
5. (computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.

   Synonym: container format
6. (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
7. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
9. (computing) A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.

   Synonym: software container

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Further reading

• container on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• anorectin, cotarnine, crenation, narcotine

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English container.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n?te?.n?r/
• Hyphenation: con?tai?ner
• Rhymes: -e?n?r

Noun

container m (plural containers, diminutive containertje n)

1. cargo container

   Synonym: vrachtcontainer

2. dumpster or domestic recycling bin, large waste container

   Synonyms: afvalcontainer, vuilcontainer

Derived terms

• afvalcontainer
• containerbegrip
• containerhaven
• containerschip
• vuilcontainer
• vrachtcontainer

French

Etymology

From English container (during the 1920s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.t?.n??/

Noun

container f (plural containers)

1. container

   Synonym: conteneur

Further reading

• “container” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• actionner, connaitre, connaître, encornait, reconnait, reconnaît, renonçait

Italian

Etymology

From English container.

Noun

container m (invariable)

1. (cargo) container (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods)

Derived terms

• containerizzare

Further reading

• container in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• konteiner

Etymology

From English container.

Noun

container m (definite singular containeren, indefinite plural containere, definite plural containerne)

1. a container (large metal box for transporting goods)

Derived terms

• containerhavn
• containerskip

References

• “container” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• konteinar

Etymology

From English container.

Noun

container m (definite singular containeren, indefinite plural containerar, definite plural containerane)

1. a container (large metal box for transporting goods)

Derived terms

• containerskip

References

• “container” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

container m (plural containers)

1. Alternative spelling of contêiner

Spanish

Etymology

From English container.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon?teine?/, [kõn??t?ei?.ne?]

Noun

container m (plural containers)

1. container

   Synonym: contenedor

Further reading

• “container” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From English container.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?t?jn?r/

Noun

container c

1. container

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?l.o?z/
• (US, dialectal) IPA^(key): /?b?l.?s/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?l.??z/
• Rhymes: -?l??z

Etymology 1

From Middle English belwes, plural of belu, belwe, a northern form of beli, from Old English belg, cf. bæl?, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz. Compare German Balg. See also belly.

Noun

bellows (plural bellows)

1. A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.
2. Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.
3. (informal or archaic) The lungs.
4. (photography) Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.
5. (figuratively) That which fans the fire of hatred, jealousy, etc.

Usage notes

• "Bellows" is used with both singular and plural verbs. One can even find "A bellows is/was".

Related terms

• bellowser
• belly
• blow

Translations

Verb

bellows (third-person singular simple present bellowses, present participle bellowsing, simple past and past participle bellowsed)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To operate a bellows; to direct air at (something) using a bellows.
   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter ,^[1]

     […] I was recommended to the place as a man who could give another man as good as he brought, and I took it. It’s easier than bellowsing and hammering.

   • 1915, John G. Neihardt, The Song of Hugh Glass, New York: Macmillan, Part 2, p. 34,^[2]

     So bellowsed, all the kindled soul of Hugh

     Became a still white hell of brooding ire,

     And through his veins regenerating fire

     Ran, driving out the lethargy of pain.

   • 1920, Arthur Guiterman, “Thunder-Storm” in Ballads of Old New York, New York: Harper & Bros., p. 49,^[3]

     The smiths of the heavens are mending the weather;

     Their hammers are beating the fragments together.

     The cumulus mountains with nebulous gorges

     Are dazzled with flame of the wind-bellowsed forges;

   • 1966, Anthony Burgess, Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel, New York: Norton, Part 3, Chapter 6, p. 173,^[4]

     He almost let the cigar go out. ‘Good God, no. We’re both exiles, aren’t we?’ He bellowsed the end red again and continued, delicate as a musician, his scoring.

   • 1999, Ferdinand Mount, Jem (and Sam), New York: Carroll & Graf, Chapter 10, p. 397,^[5]

     This is a capricious devil, the furnace, though I say it myself, and it wants regular bellowsing.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To expand and contract like a bellows.
   • 1904, A. R. Sennett, Across the Great Saint Bernard: The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man, London: Bemrose & Sons, Chapter 6, p. 389,^[6]

     […] [the dogs] sprang up, and, with a grand spraying of the crisp snow as they fleetly clambered up the steep side, they were with us in an incredibly short time, with pink tongues protruding, sides bellowsing, and sterns wagging.

   • 1933, John Steinbeck, The Red Pony, New York: Viking, 1945, Chapter 1, p. 48,^[7]

     The pony still lay on his side and the wound in his throat bellowsed in and out.

   • 1978, Stephen King, The Stand, New York: Random House, 2012, Chapter 25, p. 196,^[8]

     A sick-looking dog sat in the middle of the road, head down, sides bellowsing, white foam dripping from its muzzle to the heat-shimmering pavement.

   • 1998, Loren D. Estleman, Jitterbug, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Chapter Six, p. 53,^[9]

     The old man laughed without making a sound. His chest bellowsed and he opened his mouth to display a horseshoe of gold molars.

3. (transitive) To fold up like a bellows; to accordion.
   • 1916, Roger Pocock, Horses, London: John Murray, 2nd edition, 1917, Chapter 6, pp. 170-171,^[10]

     Without being tight […] the boot leg should fit close. The ankle should be supple as a stocking, and “bellowsed” to make sure of suppleness.

   • 1986, Will D. Campbell, Forty Acres and a Goat, Atlanta: Peachtree, Chapter 9, p. 185,^[11]

     […] the chairman of the gathered scholars […] [shushed] the black waiters preparing to feed us a hefty lunch behind the bellowsed dividing wall with the impatient yell, “You’re disturbing our meeting,” while we discussed their plight on our side of the wall.

   • 1994, Timothy West, I’m Here I Think, Where Are You? Letters from a touring actor, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995, p. 139,^[12]

     [The bus] rolled swiftly down the hill and bellowsed five parked cars […]

Etymology 2

See bellow

Noun

bellows

1. plural of bellow

Verb

bellows

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bellow

Anagrams

• Boswell