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Content(medicine)
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content 1, noun(dictionary)
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content(1) (iou)



content noun1. LME.
[medieval Latin contentum, pl. contenta things contained, use as noun of contentus pa. pple of continere CONTAIN.]
I.
In pl. & sing. What is contained (in a vessel, object, book, document, etc.). (Foll. by of or possess.) LME.
W. Cowper A letter ought not to be estimated by the length of it, but by the contents. J. Cheever She dumped the contents of her handbag onto the counter.
b. In full table of contents, table of content. A summary of the subject-matter of a book (usu. a list of the titles of chapters etc.). L15.
sing. & in pl. (treated as sing. or pl.). Tenor, purport, (of a document etc.). LME-M17.
Milton Terms of weight, Of hard contents.
The sum of the constituent elements of something (usu. immaterial); the substance as opp. to the form; the amount (of a specified element or material component) contained or yielded. M19.
local content: see LOCAL adjective.
W. D. Whitney The inner content or meaning of words. M. Schorer Works [of literature] with the most satisfying content. M. Amis Her life was disastrously free of neurotic content. F. Hoyle The moisture content of the air.
b. Psychology. [translating German Inhalt.] The totality of the constituents of a person's experience at any particular moment. L19.
II.
Containing capacity; volume; (now rare) area, extent. LME.
b. A portion of material or of space of a certain extent. L16-L17.
Comb.: content word a word having an independent lexical meaning (as a noun, adjective, verb, etc.) as opp. to one expressing primarily a grammatical relationship (as a preposition, conjunction, auxiliary, etc.).
con'tentual adjective (Philosophy & Psychology) pertaining to or dealing with content (as opp. to form) E20.