Meaning of content | Babel Free

Definitions

1. content (of a text, artwork or media production)
2. Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
   uncountable
3. That which is contained.
   uncountable
4. contents (that which is inside a container)
5. Acquiescence without examination.
   obsolete, uncountable
6. Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
   countable, uncountable
7. past participle of contener
8. That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
   uncountable
9. One or more creative works.
   broadly, uncountable
10. An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
    UK, uncountable
11. The potential of creative work for a content creator.
    Internet, broadly, colloquial, countable, uncountable
12. A member who votes in assent.
    UK, metonymically, uncountable
13. The amount of material contained.
    countable, uncountable
14. Capacity for containing.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
15. 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.
    countable, uncountable
16. 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.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Such is the fullness of my heart's content.”

“Kleph moved slowly from the door and sank upon the chaise longue with a little sigh of content.”

“The sense they humbly take upon content.”

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

“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.”

“The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.”

“Some online video creators upload new content every day.”

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

“He moved to California for the content.”

“Light beer has a lower alcohol content than regular beer.”

“Strong ships, of great content.”

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