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Container vs Wagon - What's the difference?

container | wagon |

As nouns the difference between container and wagon

is that container is an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported while wagon is a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.

As a verb wagon is

to transport by means of a wagon.

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.

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    * See also

    Descendants

    * Portuguese:

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    wagon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * waggon (UK)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
  • A freight car on a railway.
  • A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
  • (US, Australia, slang) A station wagon (or SUV).
  • (slang) A paddy wagon.
  • A truck, or lorry.
  • (Ireland, slang, dated, derogatory) (A derogatory term for a woman); bitch; slapper; cow.
  • * 1974 , in Threshold , Issues 25–27, Lyric Players Theatre, page 96:
    • “I’m not like that; I know what you mean but I’m not like that. When you said a field I nearly laughed because I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon . She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.”
  • * 1990 , Roddy Doyle, The Snapper , Penguin Group (1992), ISBN 978-0-14-017167-9:
    • pages 30–31: —Don’t know. ——She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. ¶ Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. ¶ —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.
  • * 1998 , Neville Thompson, Two Birds/One Stoned , Poolbeg:
    • page 8: “Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon .”

    Derived terms

    * broom wagon * bandwagon * chuck wagon * covered wagon * fall off the wagon * fix someone's wagon * hitch one's wagon to a star * jump on the bandwagon * meat wagon * on the bandwagon * on the wagon * off the wagon * paddy wagon * station wagon * waggoner * wagon train

    Descendants

    * German: (l) * Spanish:

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transport by means of a wagon.
  • To travel in a wagon.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "wagon")

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