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Container vs Cambro - What's the difference?

container | cambro |

As nouns the difference between container and cambro

is that container is a big container made of metal while cambro is an insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.

container

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Noun

(en noun)
  • An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
  • A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods (also cargo container).
  • (by extension) someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
  • (computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.
  • * 2011 , Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey, Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools (page 187)
    • As the MP4 container can store audio, video, or both, the M4A naming and file extension is used to hint that this MP4 container holds solely audio information.
  • (computing, GUI) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

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    cambro

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.
  • * 2000 , Christopher Allen, Kimberly Allen, A Butler's Life: Scenes from the Other Side of the Silver Salver , page 192:
    • At seven o'clock, on schedule, one of Chef James's staff arrived with the portable insulated containers known to caterers as Cambros .
  • * 2003 , Sony Bode, Successful catering , page 64:
    • During transportation and set-up, a holding oven, or cambro , is usually required to keep food hot. These are used to keep dinner rolls, roasts, turkeys, chicken breasts and all other hot food at the right temperature
  • * 2006 , Lora Arduser, Douglas Robert Brown, The professional caterer's handbook , page 532:
    • You'll find a multitude of uses for these—cooking a chicken stew to baking cookies, transporting individual appetizers and using as shelves in cambros .
  • * 2008 , Maura Knight, Feed , page 88:
    • Pickles rushed me into the manager's office, my hand still stuffed in a cambro of tomato goo.