Garage vs Contain - What's the difference?
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A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=Death Walks in Eastrepps
, chapter=2/2 (chiefly, British, Canada, Australia, NZ) A place where cars are .
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 (chiefly, British, Canada, Australia, NZ) A petrol filling station.
An independent automobile repair shop.
(attributive) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage.
(British) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds.
To store in a garage.
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(lb) To hold inside.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (lb) To include as a part.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (lb) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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To have as an element.
To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
* Bible, vii. 9.
Garage is a related term of contain.
As a noun garage
is .As a verb contain is
(lb) to hold inside.garage
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A little further on, to the right, was a large garage , where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.}}
citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages , the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
Usage notes
Historically a commercial garage would offer storage, refueling, servicing, and repair of vehicles. Since the mid-late 20th Century, storage has become uncommon at premises having the other functions. Now refueling, servicing, and repair are becoming increasingly separated from each other. Few repair garages still sell petrol; it is very uncommon for a new filling station to have a mechanic or any facilities for servicing beyond inflating tires; and a new kind of business exists to provide servicing: the oil/lube change shop.Synonyms
* (a petrol filling station) filling station, gas station (North America), petrol station (UK)Derived terms
* garage band * garage rock * garage sale * garage startup * parking garage * speed garage * UK garageVerb
(garag)- We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.
References
contain
English
Verb
(en verb)- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria,
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
- The king's person contains the unruly people from evil occasions.
- Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves.
- Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
- But if they can not contain , let them marry.