contain

Everyday

1. To contain means to have something inside. A box that contains toys has toys in it. tree →
2. To contain also means to be made of or to include: food that contains sugar. tree →
3. To contain something is to keep it under control, like containing a fire. tree →

In the lessons

maths: tells how many things are inside a box, bag or pack; often «each box contains 6», which is a rate; science: water contains oxygen and hydrogen; everyday life and safety: food labels say what a food contains (nuts, milk); a container holds things

Examples

• Each box contains 12 crayons. tree →
• A bag contains 5 red and 3 blue marbles. tree →
• The jar contained 40 cookies. tree →
• How many pencils do 4 packs contain? tree →
• This cake contains nuts. tree →
• Fruit contains vitamins. tree →
• The firefighters contained the fire. tree →
• The book contains 20 stories. tree →
• Before her stood a glass bowl containing four gold-fish. tree →

Note

«Each … contains n» is a rate: total = n × number of boxes, or boxes = total ÷ n. Trap: «contains 5 red and 3 blue» means the total is the sum, 8. Safety: read labels if you have an allergy.

In Jewish tradition

maths: tells how many things are inside a box, bag or pack; often «each box contains 6», which is a rate; science: water contains oxygen and hydrogen; everyday life and safety: food labels say what a food contains (nuts, milk); a container holds things

Examples

• The disciples of Pythagoras looked upon the decade as a holy number, and swore by it and by the Tetraktys which contain the number ten, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• ] sions contain only obouth tiOO words of the original Safer (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open; (Prophets JER.32.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• And he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths; and every laver was four cubits; and upon every one of the ten bases one laver. (Prophets 1KI.7.38, JPS 1917) tree →
• But will God in very truth dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house that I have builded! (Prophets 1KI.8.27, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

«Each … contains n» is a rate: total = n × number of boxes, or boxes = total ÷ n. Trap: «contains 5 red and 3 blue» means the total is the sum, 8. Safety: read labels if you have an allergy.