self-contained
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4.3
- adjective
- /ˌsɛlf kənˈteɪnd/
:
autosuficiente
- The Kodak Corporation offers the LC-500, a small, self-contained, color video projection system.
- self-contained classroom
- self-contained classes
- self-contained setting
And first and foremost, this has a self-contained wrapping and recoiling mechanism.
- And first and foremost, this has a self-contained wrapping and recoiling mechanism.
- And I realised that like these movies are, they are self-contained episodes.
- Philosophy is not a self-contained discipline.
- I think it's just impossible to really derive everything in the self-contained way.
- He really wants people to be like solitary lone Rangers and a self-contained unit within the team.
- So in conclusion, Social Security can't add to the deficit because it's designed by law to be self-contained.
- As far as our discussion of moral or normative facts is concerned, I think that's all pretty self-contained within the discussion.
- It only looks that way if we're thinking in terms of Einstein's idea in which particles really do have locally self-contained states.
- They said, I would love if you could make corrections more self-contained so that I don't have to watch the rest of the show to get the jokes.
- Is there a lot of piece meal studies like self-contained studies where I can have even thousands of people in a study, right?
Examples
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Each module is a four-week, self-contained unit that can be taught independently of other modules.
Academic text (1990) -
Some blue-collar suburbs began as self-contained communities in which workers clustered around factories.
Academic text (1994) -
The Cash Money Brothers are a self-contained unit now.
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So we have an entirely self-contained system?
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This thing is completely self-contained.
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Then our water source will be officially self-contained.
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So a poem is not an expression, but an independent object with a self-contained meaning.
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Because elementary school children function most of the time in a self-contained classroom setting.
Academic text (1992) -
All students were diagnosed with a moderate ID and received special education services in the same self-contained setting.
Academic text (2015) -
The research lab developed a self-contained unit that could operate independently without external resources.
Synonyms
984
2.3
Not controlled by others
51
6.3
Free to make its own decisions without outside control
33
3.9
Can live without help from other people
13
4.5
Able to act and decide without help from others
12
4.9
Able to work by itself without other equipment
10
5.7
Able to keep working without help from others
1
5.3
Able to continue to work or live without help from others
Able to provide for yourself without help from others
A place or group that stays separate from the outside world by choice
Antonyms
How Independent
51
6.3
20
4.3
984
2.3
33
3.9
182
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
self-contained = contained (semi-transparent) = self + contain + ed
Adding self- to contained is compositionally straightforward, because the form clearly signals something characterized by being contained in or by itself.
Etymology
Self-contained comes from self ('oneself') and contain ('to hold inside'), so think of a container that keeps everything it needs inside. That's why a self-contained place or thing is complete and does not need help from outside.