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Reliquary vs Container - What's the difference?

reliquary | container |

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

English

Noun

(reliquaries)
  • A container to hold or display religious relics.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
  • , title=The Norwich Victims , chapter=4/1 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.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 13, author=Holland Cotter, title=To Bump Off Art as He Knew It, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=And whether you think of those little cans as intellectual puzzles or reliquaries or scams, there are surprises inside.}}
  • (label) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.
  • container

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • (computing, GUI) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
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