content
verb
- to be enough for, cause contentment or satisfaction, appease or limit desires
adjective
- being content, satisfied
noun
- that which a communication medium overtly conveys
- (uncountable) that which is contained
- act/process of being content, appeasing or limiting desires
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒn.tɛnt/ / /ˈkɔn.tɛnt/ / /ˈkɑn.tɛnt/ / /kənˈtɛnt/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English content (plural contentes, contence), from Latin contentus, past participle of continēre (“to hold in, contain”), as Etymology 1, above. English apparently developed a substantive form of the adjective, which is not mirrored in Romance languages.
- Contained.
intj
Etymology: From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”).
- Alright, agreed.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English content (plural contentes, contence), from Latin contentus, past participle of continēre (“to hold in, contain”), as Etymology 1, above. English apparently developed a substantive form of the adjective, which is not mirrored in Romance languages.
- That which is contained.
- Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
“Although eloquently delivered, the content of the speech was objectionable.”
“You can look up the chapter on special relativity in the table of contents.”
- Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
“Some online video creators upload new content every day.”
“Prolific creators manage their voluminous content with any of various content management systems.”
- Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
“He moved to California for the content.”
- The amount of material contained.
“Light beer has a lower alcohol content than regular beer.”
- Capacity for containing.
“Strong ships, of great content.”
- 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); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
- The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”).
- To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.
“You can't have any more. You'll have to content yourself with what you already have.”
“And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.”
- To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
“Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.”