contain

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To have within; hold.
• transitive verb To be capable of holding.
• transitive verb To have as a component or constituent part; include.
• transitive verb To hold or keep within limits; restrain.
• transitive verb To halt the spread or development of; check.
• transitive verb To check the expansion or influence of (a hostile power or ideology) by containment.
• transitive verb Mathematics To be exactly divisible by.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To hold (a body of troops) in position, usually by deploying the containing force in its front and threatening an attack.
• To hold within fixed limits; comprehend; comprise; include; hold.
• To be capable of holding; have, as a vessel, an internal volume equal to: as, this vessel contains two gallons.
• To comprise, as a writing; have as contents.
• To hold in opinion; regard (with).
• Reflexively, to conduct or deport (one's self); hence, to act; do.
• To put restraint on; restrain; retain; withhold.
• Reflexively, to keep within bounds; hold in; moderate.
• In mathematics, to be divisible by, without a remainder.
• To restrain or control desire, action, or emotion.
• To exist; be held or included; be or remain.
• 3. To conduct one's self; appear in action; behave.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
• transitive verb To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
• transitive verb To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to.
• transitive verb Obs., exept as used reflexively. To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive : To hold inside.
• verb transitive : To include as a part.
• verb transitive : To limit through restraint.
• verb mathematics, transitive To have as an element.
• verb obsolete, intransitive To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb contain or hold; have within
• verb include or contain; have as a component
• verb be divisible by
• verb be capable of holding or containing
• verb hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
• verb lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits