different between vial vs container

English

Alternative forms

• phial

Etymology

From Middle English viole, fiole, from Old French fiole, from Ancient Greek ????? (phiál?, “a broad flat container”). Doublet of phial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va??l/
• Rhymes: -a??l
• Homophone: vile (some accents)

Noun

vial (plural vials)

1. A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical.

Synonyms

• (glass vessel): ampoule, phial, test tube, vacutainer

Translations

Verb

vial (third-person singular simple present vials, present participle vialling or (US) vialing, simple past and past participle vialled or (US) vialed)

1. (transitive) To put or keep in, or as in, a vial.

References

• vial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• LAIV, VALI, Vail, Vali, Vila, vail, vali, vila

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vjal/

Noun

vial m (plural viaj)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bjal/, [?bjal]

Adjective

vial (plural viales)

1. (relational) road, highway

Noun

vial m (plural viales)

1. avenue
2. vial

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