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Container

A container is any receptacle or enclosure for holding an item. Things kept inside a container are protected on several sides by being inside its structure. Humans have used containers for at least 100,000 years, and possibly for millions of years. Containers are used in storage, packaging, and transportation, including shipping.

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FoodFood storage containersGourdsTharu peopleNative Hawaiian
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Variety

CeramicAmphorasKvevriPithosDolia
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Description

ToolDurableRigid
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Overview

PackagingTransportationShipping
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Container

Nodes79
Edges78
Triples46
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025316
Components1

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Container

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related to history · 15
Container → BC, By, Containers, Cyprus, Early, Hawaiian, Humans, Phoenician, Phoenicians, Rhodes, Tharu, The, The Romans, These, These Phoenician
related to Variety · 9
Container → Ancient, Bags, Barrels, BoxesCrates, Cans, Ceramic, Corrugated, Drums, Practical
related to External links · 5
Container → Containers, Media, Wikimedia Commons The, Wiktionary, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Description · 3
Container → Humans, The, Things

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containers used transportation shipping food bottles made glass humans including packaging also first examples similar least 100 000 years possibly

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
hollow gourdsinstance ofThe earliest containers were probably objects found in nature0.80text
of which examples have been found in cultures such as those of the Tharu peopleinstance ofThe earliest containers were probably objects found in nature0.80text
and native Hawaiian peopleinstance ofThe earliest containers were probably objects found in nature0.80text
glass bottles had become standardized for their markets.In 1810instance ofsizes for retail containers0.80text
Frenchman Philippe de Girard came to Londoninstance ofsizes for retail containers0.80text
used British merchant Peter Durand as an agent to patent his own idea for a process for making tin cansinstance ofsizes for retail containers0.80text
amphorasinstance ofAncient vessels0.80text
kvevriinstance ofAncient vessels0.80text
pithosinstance ofAncient vessels0.80text
and doliaBottlesinstance ofAncient vessels0.80text
similar to a jar in being traditionally symmetrical about the axis perpendicular to its baseinstance ofAncient vessels0.80text
made of glassJarsinstance ofAncient vessels0.80text

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