Noun

(en noun)

An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.

A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods (also cargo container).

(by extension) someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.

(computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.

* 2011 , Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey, Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools (page 187)

As the MP4 container can store audio, video, or both, the M4A naming and file extension is used to hint that this MP4 container holds solely audio information.

(computing, GUI) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

Noun

(en noun)

A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.

(brewing) A fermenting vat.

An old English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes.

* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p. 205:

Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.

A weight of 2,240 pounds.

An indefinite large quantity.

"He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,

This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this, Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim Hear no more of you. " -- Shakespeare

* (rfdate) Dryden

A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ.

(archaic, humorous, or, derogatory) A drunkard.

(zoology) Any shell belonging to and allied genera; called also tun-shell.

A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.