contains
- 1Third-person singular simple present of contain.
The report contains several errors that need correcting.
Each capsule contains a measured dose of the medication.
Note
The -s form that every sense of contain takes with a singular subject: the box contains tools, the set contains zero, the cordon contains the crowd. In current use it always takes an object: what is held, included, or kept within bounds. The objectless use, describing someone who restrains desire and lives chastely, is obsolete, so today a contains with nothing after it reads as unfinished.
contains is a form of contain
contain, verb: To include something as one of its parts or components; in mathematics, to have something as an element or a subset. Full entry
- Forms
- containcontains he/she/itcontaining -ing formcontained past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- contain → contains: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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