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Containing vs Pertaining - What's the difference?

containing | pertaining |

As verbs the difference between containing and pertaining

is that containing is present participle of contain while pertaining is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between containing and pertaining

is that containing is contents while pertaining is something that pertains; an appurtenance.

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.”

    pertaining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that pertains; an appurtenance.
  • * 1869 , Horace Bushnell, Women's suffrage: the reform against nature (page 90)
    • When, I say, these things are duly considered as pertainings of a woman's lot, we might almost justify them in a riot against natural sexhood itself, if there were any thing to be gained by it.

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