different between container vs vast

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

Etymology

From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Doublet of fada.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: väst, IPA^(key): /v??st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /væst/
• Rhymes: -??st

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster or more vast, superlative vastest or most vast)

1. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).

2. Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
3. (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.

Translations

Noun

vast (plural vasts)

1. (poetic) A vast space.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I.i

     they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ATVs, VSAT, tavs, vats

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin v?stus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vast/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bast/

Adjective

vast (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasts or vastos, feminine plural vastes)

1. vast, wide

Related terms

• vastitud

Further reading

• “vast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vast” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vast” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?st/
• Hyphenation: vast
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vast, from Old Dutch fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster, superlative meest vast or vastst)

1. firm, fast, tight
2. fixed, not moving or changing

3. stuck, unable to get out

4. (chemistry) in the solid state

5. (botany) perennial

6. (of a telephone) using a landline

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vas

Adverb

vast

1. surely, certainly

   Synonym: zeker

2. (informal, sarcastically) sure, yeah, right

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vast

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vasten
2. imperative of vasten

Estonian

Etymology

Of Finno-Mordvinic or Finno-Volgaic origin. Cognate to Finnish vasta, Votic vassa, Northern Sami vuostá, Erzya ??????? (vastoms, “to meet; to receive”), Moksha ????? (vasta, “place; distance”) and possibly Western Mari ???????? (?aštareš, “against; across”).

Adverb

vast

1. maybe, possibly
2. recently, just, now

Derived terms

References

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish vasten

Preposition

vast

1. against

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vasta.

Noun

vast

1. bundle (of switches for the sauna)

Romani

Etymology

Perhaps from Sanskrit ???? (hásta), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *??ástas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *???ástas, from Proto-Indo-European *??és-to- (“hand”) < *??es-. Compare Punjabi ??? (hatth), Hindi ??? (h?th), Bengali ??? (hat); compare also Persian ???? (dast).

Noun

vast m (plural vasta)

1. (anatomy) hand

Romanian

Etymology

From French vaste, from Latin vastus.

Adjective

vast m or n (feminine singular vast?, masculine plural va?ti, feminine and neuter plural vaste)

1. vast

Declension

Related terms

• vastitate

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vasta.

Noun

vast

1. bundle (of switches for the sauna)