CONTENTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contents mean? 

• CONTENTS (noun)
  The noun CONTENTS has 2 senses:

1. (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something

2. a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start

  Familiarity information: CONTENTS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTENTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

content; contents

Context example:

the two groups were similar in content

Hypernyms ("contents" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

contents; table of 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)

 Context examples 

A bottle which includes a device for applying its contents.

(Applicator Bottle, NCI Thesaurus)

The untoward medical consequence (or experience) of an unintentional inhalation of oro-pharyngeal or gastric contents into trachea or the lung airways.

(Aspiration Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)

The study information was widely shared during the past two weeks after the researchers placed the contents on a preprint server to quickly share their data with colleagues.

(New coronavirus stable for hours on surface, National Institutes of Health)

By inventorying the contents of GJ 3470 b's atmosphere, astronomers are able to uncover clues about the planet's nature and origin.

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

The University of Massachusetts scientists set out to scrutinize the contents of tiny sacks released by cells called extracellular vesicles.

(Memory gene goes viral, National Institutes of Health)

A type of pneumonia resulting from the aspiration of food, liquid, or gastric contents into the upper respiratory tract.

(Aspiration Pneumonitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An organelle formed by the fusion of an autophagosome with the lysosome, where the contents of the autophagosome are degraded.

(Autophagolysosome, NCI Thesaurus)

A pathologic fibrous band that impedes passage of intestinal contents through the colon.

(Colonic Band, NCI Thesaurus)

Blockage of the normal flow of the intestinal contents in the colon.

(Colonic Obstruction, NCI Thesaurus)

A computed value which depends on the contents of a block of data and which is transmitted or stored along with the data in order to detect corruption of the data.

(Checksum, NCI Thesaurus)