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  1. containers

    A container is any receptacle or enclosure for holding a product used in storage, packaging, and transportation, including shipping. Things kept inside of a container are protected on several sides by being inside of its structure. The term is most frequently applied to devices made from materials that are durable and are often partly or completely rigid. A container can also be considered as a basic tool, consisting of any device creating a partially or fully enclosed space that can be used to contain, store, and transport objects or materials.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of containers in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of containers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of containers in a Sentence

  1. Phillip Sanfield:

    Now we've got to make sure that works its way through the chain, because of course it's not just the gate of the port. It's getting those containers onto a chassis, getting them to where they need to be.

  2. Patricia Deesy:

    People would actually break into the containers and steal the wasted meds and syringes and use them.

  3. Tristram Stuart:

    There is a racket in this country called hidden waste, the surplus costs so much for supermarkets to dispose of that it just gets placed in warehouses and shipping containers. Hopefully, this will be exposed soon and the figures will change dramatically.

  4. Patricia Deesy:

    When I started out in nursing almost 30 years ago, policy at hospitals was to waste partial doses of narcotics in the sharps containers, these containers would then be incinerated by a company that picked them up when they became full.

  5. James Rogers:

    I know it’s heavy, it can break and all the rest of that, but we think that the advantages to using glass containers for storing food and reheating food outweigh the risks.

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