Reliquary vs Container - What's the difference?
reliquary | container |
A container to hold or display religious relics.
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(label) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.
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 nouns the difference between reliquary and container
is that reliquary is a container to hold or display religious relics while container is an item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.reliquary
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(reliquaries)citation, passage=“… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.
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External links
* ("reliquary" on Wikipedia)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.