containers
kuhn-TAY-nurz/kənˈteɪnɚz/UKkuhn-TAY-nuhz/kənˈteɪnəz/
- 1Plural of container.
Dockworkers unloaded the shipping containers onto waiting trucks.
Airtight containers keep dry goods fresh for much longer.
Note
A regular plural, made by adding -s, and it stretches as far as the singular does: jars and tubs in a kitchen, steel boxes stacked on a ship, file formats that bundle several kinds of data, and the programming types whose instances hold collections of objects. Because the range is so wide, a modifier usually settles which kind is meant, as in shipping containers, airtight containers or storage containers.
containers is a form of container
container, noun: An item used to store or transport objects, materials, or data. Full entry
- Forms
- containercontainers plural
- Spelling
- container → containers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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