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What is the difference between container and interior?

container | interior |

As nouns the difference between container and interior

is that container is an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported while interior is the inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

As a adjective interior is

within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

container

English

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.
  • Synonyms

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    interior

    English

    Alternative forms

    * interiour (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
  • the interior''' apartments of a house; the '''interior surface of a hollow ball
  • Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
  • the interior parts of a region or country

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * interior decoration * interior design * interior designer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
  • The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
  • ''Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior .
  • (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.
  • Antonyms

    * (l)