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Containable
- - Capable of being contained or comprised.
Containment
- noun - (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
- a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully; "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
- the act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion"
Contributed
- verb - be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing"
- bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program"
- contribute to some cause; "I gave at the office"
- provide; "The city has to put up half the required amount"
Contributes
- verb - be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing"
- bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program"
- contribute to some cause; "I gave at the office"
- provide; "The city has to put up half the required amount"
Contributor
- noun - a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book
- someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money
Contritions
- noun - sorrow
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
Contrivable
- - Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised.
Contrivance
- noun - a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- the act of devising something
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"