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CONTENTS
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start
Synonyms:
contents; table of contents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("contents" is a kind of...):
list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))
table; tabular array (a set of data arranged in rows and columns)
Holonyms ("contents" is a part of...):
publication (a copy of a printed work offered for distribution)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
Example:
the two groups were similar in content
Synonyms:
content; contents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("contents" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb content
Context examples:
The Intramural contents are soft and waxy with a variable amount of cholesterol.
(Central Nervous System Dermoid Cyst, NCI Thesaurus)
During the cell cycle, a cell makes a copy of its DNA and other contents, and divides in two.
(Cell Cycle Regulation Process, NCI Dictionary)
Going through its contents, he drew forth eleven poems which his friend had written.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I found, on glancing at the remaining contents of the newspaper, that Mr. Micawber was a diligent and esteemed correspondent of that journal.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
We found the brass box there, although its contents had been destroyed.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I examined the contents of the safe, most of which had been taken out and left on the table.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The note was immediately dispatched, and its contents as quickly complied with.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A pathologic fibrous net that impedes passage of intestinal contents through the colon.
(Colonic Web, NCI Thesaurus)
Issue associated with the inability of device and/or device components to release its contents.
(Deflation Issue Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)
An organelle formed by the fusion of a phagosome with the lysosome, where the contents of the phagosome are degraded.
(Phagolysosome, NCI Thesaurus)
