Vial vs Container - What's the difference?
vial | container |
A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical.
* Shakespeare
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 vial and container
is that vial is violin while container is a big container made of metal.vial
English
(vial)Alternative forms
* phialNoun
(en noun)- Take thou this vial , being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor thou off.
Synonyms
* ampoule * test tube * vacutainerReferences
*Anagrams
* * * ----container
English
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.