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Containing vs Mitigating - What's the difference?

containing | mitigating |

As verbs the difference between containing and mitigating

is that containing is while mitigating is .

As a noun containing

is (in the plural) contents.

As an adjective mitigating is

that serves to mitigate.

containing

English

Verb

(head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
    • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (in the plural) contents
  • * (Herman Melville), Pierre
    • “Any, – all words are thine, Isabel; words and worlds with all their containings , shall be slaves to thee, Isabel.”

    mitigating

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • that serves to mitigate