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/kon-tent/US // ˈkɒn tɛnt //UK // (ˈkɒntɛnt) //

内容,目录

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually contents. something that is contained: the contents of a box.the subjects or topics covered in a book or document.the chapters or other formal divisions of a book or document: a table of contents.
    • : something that is to be expressed through some medium, as speech, writing, or any of various arts: a poetic form adequate to a poetic content.
    • : significance or profundity; meaning: a clever play that lacks content.
    • : substantive information or creative material viewed in contrast to its actual or potential manner of presentation: publishers, record companies, and other content providers; a flashy website, but without much content.
    • : that which may be perceived in something: the latent versus the manifest content of a dream.
    • : Philosophy, Logic. the sum of the attributes or notions comprised in a given conception; the substance or matter of cognition.
    • : power of containing; holding capacity: The bowl's content is three quarts.
    • : volume, area, or extent; size.
    • : the amount contained.
    • : Linguistics. the system of meanings or semantic values specific to a language.
    • : Mathematics.the greatest common divisor of all the coefficients of a given polynomial.Compare primitive polynomial. any abstraction of the concept of length, area, or volume.

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Examples

  • When I saw it listed on the contents page, I thought, “Why would he write about a song that insipid?”

  • Such museums have a long history even if his is slightly different thanks to its odd contents.

  • But Tarantino nixed that idea, instead choosing to have the contents be whatever you want it to be.

  • She said pageant contents are just the most visible product of the cosmetic industry now at risk.

  • It contents were instantly irrelevant, news from another century.

  • If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.

  • Dan inserted the primer, pulled the lanyard and sent the contents of the gun into the ranks of the enemy.

  • But Lady Hartledon did not hear; or if she heard, did not heed; she was already absorbed in the contents of her letter.

  • The contents of the pipe-chest he thoroughly knew, for often he counted the pipes.

  • An hour later, I heard he was dead: that on his way to his home he had purchased a bottle of laudanum and swallowed the contents!