Encase vs Container - What's the difference?
encase | container |
To enclose, as in a case.
*1918 , Wilhelm Muehlon, The vandal of Europe :
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)
(computing, GUI) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
As a verb encase
is to enclose, as in a case.As a noun container is
a big container made of metal.encase
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Alternative forms
* incaseVerb
(encas)- They always appeared to me like asses who gladly incase themselves in lions' skins and cheer themselves with the idea that all the world about them consists also of similarly disguised asses.
Anagrams
* * * *container
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Noun
(en noun)- 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.