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Definitions for contained
kənˈteɪndcon·tained
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Princeton's WordNet
containedadjective
gotten under control
"the oil spill is contained"
Wiktionary
containedadjective
Restricted in space.
The brush fire is now contained, if it doesn't jump the lines it will burn itself out.
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contained
Contained generally means being held or enclosed within something else. It refers to something that is kept under control or within limits, or an item or items that are included within a particular boundary, space, or category.
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Contained
of Contain
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Rank popularity for the word 'contained' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2078
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Rank popularity for the word 'contained' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4669
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of contained in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of contained in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of contained in a Sentence
Agriculture Undersecretary Ted McKinney:
It's tough to say whether African swine fever is contained.
Because of the institutional organizational capacity of those paramilitary groups, when Saddam Hussein fell and the repression that contained them ended, they flourished. They had the capacity to expand and to operate more overtly.
Through our security controls and protocols, we identified irregular activity in one of our environments, we immediately contained the matter and isolated the affected servers. We fully restored our affected systems from back up. There was no impact on Accenture's operations, or on our clients' systems.
The agency was very unprepared when it hit, they could have locked down the institution or put it on a modified scheduling, had a lot more control of movement and everything to keep it more contained if it did kick off, and it wouldn't have gotten all over our institution.
I don't think they're gaining strength, what is true, from the start our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq and in Syria. They'll come in. They'll leave. But you don't see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain. What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures. We've made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters.
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