[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/contain/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [C](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/c/) / contain # contain verb (contain, contains, contained, containing) «contain» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. To contain means to have something inside. A box that contains toys has toys in it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/#m1) 2. To contain also means to be made of or to include: food that contains sugar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/#m2) 3. To contain something is to keep it under control, like containing a fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/#m3) ### In the lessons maths: tells how many things are inside a box, bag or pack; often «each box contains 6», which is a rate; science: water contains oxygen and hydrogen; everyday life and safety: food labels say what a food contains (nuts, milk); a container holds things ### Examples - Each box contains 12 crayons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/#x1) - A bag contains 5 red and 3 blue marbles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/#x2) - The jar contained 40 cookies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/#x3) - How many pencils do 4 packs contain? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/#x4) - This cake contains nuts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/#x5) - Fruit contains vitamins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/#x6) - The firefighters contained the fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/#x7) - The book contains 20 stories. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/#x8) - Before her stood a glass bowl containing four gold-fish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/#x9) ### Note «Each … contains n» is a rate: total = n × number of boxes, or boxes = total ÷ n. Trap: «contains 5 red and 3 blue» means the total is the sum, 8. Safety: read labels if you have an allergy. ## In Jewish tradition maths: tells how many things are inside a box, bag or pack; often «each box contains 6», which is a rate; science: water contains oxygen and hydrogen; everyday life and safety: food labels say what a food contains (nuts, milk); a container holds things ### Examples - The disciples of Pythagoras looked upon the decade as a holy number, and swore by it and by the Tetraktys which contain the number ten, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contain/#x1) - All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contain/#x2) - \] sions contain only obouth tiOO words of the original Safer (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contain/#x3) - So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open; (Prophets JER.32.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contain/#x4) - And he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths; and every laver was four cubits; and upon every one of the ten bases one laver. (Prophets 1KI.7.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contain/#x5) - But will God in very truth dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house that I have builded! (Prophets 1KI.8.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contain/#x6) ### Note «Each … contains n» is a rate: total = n × number of boxes, or boxes = total ÷ n. Trap: «contains 5 red and 3 blue» means the total is the sum, 8. Safety: read labels if you have an allergy. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «contain» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contain/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«contain» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/contain.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «contain» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contain/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«contain» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/contain.html) on Mova free.