English Dictionary

contain

/kənˈteɪn/

verb

(transitive) To hold inside. / (transitive) To include as a part. / (transitive) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

The box contains all my books.

意味（1）

(transitive) To hold inside.

At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

意味（2）

(transitive) To include as a part.

Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

意味（3）

(transitive) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself!

意味（4）

(mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.

A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements.

意味（5）

(obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry.