Usually means: Holding or enclosing something within.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word containing:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. containing: Merriam-Webster
  2. containing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. containing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Containing, containing: Wordnik
  5. containing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. containing: Wiktionary
  7. Containing, containing: Dictionary.com
  8. containing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Containing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Containing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. containing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. containing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. containing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. containing: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. containing: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (containing)

▸ noun:  (in the plural) contents

Similar:
comprise, incorporate, control, take, hold in, turn back, hold back, carry, arrest, hold, more...

Opposite:
releasing, excluding, omitting, expelling, emptying

Types:
holding, carrying, storing, keeping, restraining, more...

Phrases:
asbestos containing material, extended self containing prolog, flavin containing monooxygenase 3, asbestos containing materials, histamine containing foods, more...

Adjectives:
sulfur, nitrogen, fluorine, nickel, oxygen, halogen, chlorine, phosphorus, fluoride, lead, fat



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Similar:
comprise, incorporate, control, take, hold in, turn back, hold back, carry, arrest, hold, more...

Opposite:
releasing, excluding, omitting, expelling, emptying

Types:
holding, carrying, storing, keeping, restraining, more...

Phrases:
asbestos containing material, extended self containing prolog, flavin containing monooxygenase 3, asbestos containing materials, histamine containing foods, sentence clause containing a verb, more...

Adjectives:
sulfur, nitrogen, fluorine, nickel, oxygen, halogen, chlorine, phosphorus, fluoride, lead, fat



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