Meaning of contained in English

contained

verb

/kənˈteɪnd/ us

/kənˈteɪnd/

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past tense and past participle of contain

contained

adjective

/kənˈteɪnd/ us

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contained adjective (QUIET)

calm and controlled, and not showing a lot of emotion or trying to attract attention:

My sister is very contained, and I'm a little bit louder and more boisterous.

She kept her emotions contained.

Synonym

restrained

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I'm definitely more humble than I used to be, more contained.
The painter works with a quiet, contained palette of soft blues and greys.
It is striking how much more contained and controlled their music has become over the past decade.

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(Definition of contained from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of contained

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The rules that were removed, were simply those with the smallest probability (irrespective of the nonterminals they contained).

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The information contained in evidence tables may vary, depending on what kinds of studies are being used and also on the scope of the assessment.

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Although cell size in the cotyledons was not significantly lower in the spaceflight material than in the ground control, the cotyledons contained substantially fewer cells.

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Unlike the kernel estimates, these "variance maps" contained no systematic spatiotemporal structure; and scatterplots of the standard deviations against the mean values revealed no correlation.

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From the first 100 complete and intelligible utterances of each speech sample, only those utterances which contained a lexical verb were selected.

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The proportion of topic utterances that contained the experimental label was also examined.

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Duplex-duplex coupling linkages are more precise, but this simulation contained no close linkages of this type.

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Only one of the four options was identical to the target (the other three contained minor differences).

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Each file contained four repetitions of the prime-plus-target word sequence.

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Such residential buildings contained from a few to twenty or more apartments, with the average being around eight to ten dwellings each.

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However, the majority of the planks stop short of this boundary and so remain contained within the enclosing darkness.

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The most important genetically engineered crops that have been introduced contained genes encoding insect resistance and herbicide tolerance; they were soybean, maize, cotton and canola.

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However, very few of them contained musical instruments, but rather electronic equipment.

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Furthermore, in specimens with coarctation, the proximal aortic arch contained fewer elastic lamellae than specimens without coarctation.

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