content

aggettivo

1. 1

   Satisfied, pleased, contented.

   This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.

   You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're brave, compassionate, kind: a content man. That is your secret—contentment; I am 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit, and I don't even know what I am chasing.

sostantivo

1. 1

   Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.

   They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.

   ‘It is very difficult to […] learn to seek content, instead of happiness.’

   ‘I understand you—upon every other subject, but the only one, my content requires, you are ready to obey me.’

   Like an empress, I feel great content surrounded by the familiar sounds of laughter, bickering, rattling plates, clicking chopsticks, smacking lips, and noisy sipping of the longevity brew.

2. 2

   obsoletoAcquiescence without examination.

   The sense they humbly take upon content.

3. 3

   That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.

   So will I in England work your grace's full content.

4. 4

   An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.

5. 5

   A member who votes in assent.

interiezione

1. 1

   arcaicoAlright, agreed.

verbo

1. 1

   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.

   Do not content yourselves with meer Words and Names, lest your laboured Improvements only amass a heap of unintelligible Phrases, and you feed upon Husks instead of Kernels.

2. 2

   obsoletoTo satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

   Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.

aggettivo

1. 1

   obsoletoContained.

sostantivo

1. 1

   That which is contained.

2. 2

   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.

   Hugh admitting that he never had, and moreover that he couldn’t read, Mrs Varden declared with much severity, that he ought to he even more ashamed of himself than before, and strongly recommended him to save up his pocket-money for the purchase of one, and further to teach himself the contents with all convenient diligence.

   In the future, instead of bottles of dead "content," I imagine electronically defined venues, where minds residing in bodies scattered all over the planet are admitted, either by subscription or a ticket at a time, into the real-time presence of the creative act.

3. 3

   Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc. One or more creative works.

   Some online video creators upload new content every day.

   Prolific creators manage their voluminous content with any of various content management systems.

4. 4

   Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc. One or more creative works. The potential of creative work for a content creator.

   He moved to California for the content.

5. 5

   The amount of material contained.

   Light beer has a lower alcohol content than regular beer.

6. 6

   obsoletoCapacity for containing.

   Strong ships, of great content.

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   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.

Forme

plurale

contents

comparativo

more content, contenter

superlativo

most content, contentest

passato

contented

participio passato

contented

participio presente

contenting

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