Usually means: Holds or includes something within.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word contains:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. contains: Merriam-Webster
  2. contains: Collins English Dictionary
  3. contains: Vocabulary.com
  4. Contains, contains: Wordnik
  5. contains: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. contains: Wiktionary
  7. contains: Dictionary.com
  8. contains: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Contains: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. contains: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. contains: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contains, contains: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See contain as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (contain)

verb:  (transitive) To hold inside.
verb:  (transitive) To include as a part.
verb:  (transitive) To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
verb:  (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
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