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Excluding vs Containing - What's the difference?

excluding | containing |

As verbs the difference between excluding and containing

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

As a preposition excluding

is to the exclusion of; not including.

As a noun containing is

contents.

excluding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • to the exclusion of; not including
    • Our lucky free draw winner will be treated to dinner, bed and breakfast, but the holiday must be taken before December, 1991 (subject to availability and excluding bank holidays).

    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.”