Dictionary Definition
content adj : satisfied or showing satisfaction
with things as they are; "a contented smile" [syn: contented] [ant: discontented]
Noun
1 everything that is included in a collection;
"he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were
similar in content"
3 the proportion of a substance that is contained
in a mixture or alloy etc.
4 the amount that can be contained; "the gas tank
has a capacity of 12 gallons" [syn: capacity]
5 the sum or range of what has been perceived,
discovered, or learned [syn: cognitive
content, mental
object]
6 the state of being contented with your
situation in life; "he relaxed in sleepy contentedness"; "they
could read to their heart's content" [syn: contentedness]
7 something (a person or object or scene)
selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation;
"a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture
of the same subject" [syn: subject, depicted
object]
Verb
1 satisfy in a limited way; "He contented himself
with one glass of beer per day"
2 make content; "I am contented" [ant: discontent]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
- From adjective content.
Pronunciation
Noun
- That which is contained.
- Published information and experiences such as many novels, movies, music, game, webpages, presentations, organized data, etc.
- The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon).
- See also contents
Translations
that which is contained
- Arabic: (muḥtawī)
- Catalan: contingut
- Chinese: 内容 (nèi róng)
- Czech: obsah
- Danish: indhold
- Dutch: inhoud
- Finnish: sisältö
- French: contenu
- German: Inhalt
- Hebrew: תכולה (tkhula)
- Italian: contenuto
- Japanese: 内容 (ないよう, naiyō) (1)
- Malayalam: ഉള്ളടക്കം (uLLatakkam)
- Persian: (muḥtawī)
- Portuguese: conteúdo
- Romanian: conţinut
- Spanish: contenido
- Swedish: innehåll
published information
mathematics: space contained by a polytope
- Dutch: inhoud
Adjective
- In the context of "used only as a copula with be": Satisfied; in a state of satisfaction.
Related terms
Translations
satisfied
- Czech: spokojený
- Danish: tilfreds
- Dutch: tevreden
- Finnish: tyytyväinen
- French: content , contente
- German: zufrieden
- Italian: contento
- Portuguese: contente, satisfeito
- Romanian: mulţumit
- Swedish: nöjd, tillfreds, tillfredsställd
Verb
- To satisfy.
- You can't have any more - you'll have to content yourself with what you already have.
Translations
satisfy
- Danish: stille tilfreds, tilfredsstille
- Dutch: vergenoegen, tevredenstellen
- Finnish: tyydyttää
- French: satisfaire
- Italian: soddisfare
- Portuguese: contentar, satisfazer
- Romanian: mulţumi
- Swedish: nöja
French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɔ̃.tɑ̃/ m singular and plural, /kɔ̃.tɑ̃t/ f singular and plural
Etymology
From contentus.Verb
- Form of conter'
Extensive Definition
Content or Contents may refer to:
- Content (algebra), the highest common factor of the coefficients of a polynomial
- Content (media and publishing), information and experiences created for an audience
- Content (measure theory), an additive real function defined on a field of sets
- Table of contents
Content may also refer to:
- Curriculum, material to be learned as opposed to the teaching methods used
- Volume, when generalized to arbitrarily many dimensions in mathematics and physics
content in German: Nachschlagen
content in Korean: 콘텐츠
content in Dutch: Content
content in Japanese: コンテンツ
content in Simple English: Content
content in Slovak: Obsah
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
acceptance, accepting, accommodation, accordant, achieve inner
harmony, acquiescent, acquiescing, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing, alacritous, amenable, amusement, animal pleasure,
appease, approving, ardent, assentatious, assenting, at ease, bewitch, bodily pleasure,
burden, capacity, captivate, carnal delight,
census, charm, charmed, cheer, cheerful, comfort, comfortable, compliable, compliant, components, composed, composition, composure, conceding, concessive, consentient, consenting, constituents, contented, contentedness, contentment, contents, cooperative, cordage, coziness, cozy, creature comforts, delight, delighted, disposed, divisions, docile, eager, ease, easy, easygoing, elements, endorsing, endpleasure, enjoyment, enrapture, entertainment, enthusiastic, entire
satisfaction, essence,
eupeptic, euphoria, euphoric, exhilarated, fain, favorable, favorably disposed,
favorably impressed with, favorably inclined, felicity, forepleasure, forward, fruition, fulfilled, fulfillment, fun, game, glad, gladden, gladsome, gratification, gratified, gratify, great satisfaction,
gusto, guts, happiness, happy, hearty enjoyment, import, in clover, in the mind,
in the mood, inclined,
index, ingredients, innards, insides, intellectual pleasure,
intrigued, inventory, items, joie de vivre, keen
pleasure, kicks, limit, list, load, luxury, measure, minded, nothing loath, of good
comfort, part, parts, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, permissive, physical
pleasure, please,
pleased, pleased as
Punch, pleased with, pleasure, pliant, poundage, predisposed, prompt, prone, purport, put at ease, quantity, quick, quiet pleasure, ratifying, ready, ready and willing, receptive, reconciled, reconcilement, reconciliation, relish, resignation, resigned, responsive, room, sanctioning, sans souci,
satisfaction,
satisfied, satisfy, self-gratification,
self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, serenity, set at ease, sexual
pleasure, significance, size, sold on, soothe, space, stowage, submissive, substance, sweetness of life,
taken with, text, theme, thesis, thrill, thrilled, tickle, tickled, tickled pink, tickled
to death, titillation, tonnage, topic, tractable, tranquillity, uncomplaining, ungrudging, unloath, unrefusing, unreluctant, unrepining, volume, voluptuousness,
well-being, well-disposed, well-inclined, whole, willed, willing, willinghearted, without
care, zealous, zest