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I like the end of the year to be about something. Especially with younger shows, the network pushes you to make self-contained episodes; they don't like them to be serialized: 'We want this one to be funny for someone who's never watched it and will never watch again.' And I go 'Why would anyone want to do it like that?'
Bill Lawrence

Meaning of "self-contained" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-CONTAINED

self-contained play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-CONTAINED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Contained is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SELF-CONTAINED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Self-sufficiency

Self-sufficiency is the state of not requiring any aid, support, or interaction, for survival; it is therefore a type of personal or collective autonomy. On a national scale, a totally self-sufficient economy that does not trade with the outside world is called an autarky. The term self-sufficiency is usually applied to varieties of sustainable living in which nothing is consumed outside of what is produced by the self-sufficient individuals. Examples of attempts at self-sufficiency in North America include simple living, homesteading, off-the-grid, survivalism, DIY ethic and the back-to-the-land movement. Practices that enable or aid self-sufficiency include autonomous building, permaculture, sustainable agriculture, and renewable energy. The term is also applied to limited forms of self-sufficiency, for example growing one's own food or becoming economically independent of state subsidies. The entire population of the world was, at one time, self-sufficient. They made their own clothing, tools, weapons, boats, huts, and food. They used gathering, hunting, herding and farming to find/hunt/grow their own food.

Definition of self-contained in the English dictionary

The first definition of self-contained in the dictionary is containing within itself all parts necessary for completeness. Other definition of self-contained is having its own kitchen, bathroom, and lavatory not shared by others and usually having its own entrance. Self-Contained is also able or tending to keep one's feelings, thoughts, etc, to oneself; reserved.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-CONTAINED

self-conceit
self-conceited
self-concept
self-confessed
self-confidence
self-confident
self-confidently
self-congratulation
self-congratulatory
self-conscious
self-consciously
self-consciousness
self-containedly
self-containedness
self-contempt
self-contradiction
self-contradictory
self-control
self-controlled
self-controlling

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-CONTAINED

combined
constrained
contained
curtained
drained
engrained
fine-grained
highly trained
house-trained
ingrained
restrained
sprained
stained
strained
sustained
trained
unconstrained
unexplained
unrestrained
untrained
well-trained

Synonyms and antonyms of self-contained in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SELF-CONTAINED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «self-contained» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of self-contained

Translation of «self-contained» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-CONTAINED

Find out the translation of self-contained to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-contained from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-contained» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不与他人往来的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

independiente
570 millions of speakers

English

self-contained
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घुन्ना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُسْتَقِلّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

самодостаточный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

completo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বয়ংসম্পূর্ণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indépendant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Diri sendiri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

in sich geschlossen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

内蔵型の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자급식의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Awakmu dhewe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

độc lập
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தன்னிறைவான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वयंपूर्ण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kendi kendine yeten
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

autonomo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zamknięty w sobie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нетовариський
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

independent
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτάρκης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

self- vervat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

självständig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

selvstedig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-contained

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-CONTAINED»

The term «self-contained» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.164 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-CONTAINED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «self-contained» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «self-contained» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-contained

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10 QUOTES WITH «SELF-CONTAINED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word self-contained.
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Damon Albarn
China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained.
2
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
3
Clive Davis
I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you're dealing with Jerry Garcia or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or a Whitney or an Aretha, they know what they want with their career.
4
John Grogan
I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.
5
Bill Lawrence
I like the end of the year to be about something. Especially with younger shows, the network pushes you to make self-contained episodes; they don't like them to be serialized: 'We want this one to be funny for someone who's never watched it and will never watch again.' And I go 'Why would anyone want to do it like that?'
6
Norm MacDonald
I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.
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Christopher Meloni
Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.
8
Jenny Offill
I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.
9
Charles Palliser
I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.
10
Evan Williams
A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are highly dependent on linking to each other.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-CONTAINED»

Discover the use of self-contained in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-contained and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Psychotherapy and the Self-contained Patient
This authoritative volume addresses the intricacies of working with the self-contained person, who is often competitive and ill at ease with experts, and proposes successful interventions for treating the ever-challenging and provocative ...
E. Mark Stern, 1989
2
The Self-contained Village?: The Social History of Rural ...
These essays show how historical revisionism has overturned the view that English villages, before industrialization, had self-sufficient economies and populations largely separated from the outside world.
Christopher Dyer, 2007
3
Elementary School Structures: The Effects of Self-contained ...
Elementary third and fourth grade classrooms were found to be primarily structured in two configurations.
Larry Dwayne Ponder, 2008
4
Perceptions of Special Education Professionals in Regards to ...
Key words. self-contained, inclusive, curriculum, modified, special needs
Joyce Medley, 2009
5
Self-contained Hybrid Electro-hydraulic Actuators Using ...
Theoretical modeling of the dynamics of the coupled structural-hydraulic system is extremely complex and several models have been proposed earlier.
Anirban Chaudhuri, 2008
6
Respiratory equipment: open-circuit self-contained ...
Respirators, Breathing apparatus, Compressed air, Diving equipment, Marking, Underwater, Performance testing, Laboratory testing, Simulation, Health and safety requirements, Depth, Maximum, Conformity, Design, Gas cylinders, Valves, ...
British Standards Institute Staff, British Standards Institution, European Committee for Standardization, 2006
7
QuickTime Toolkit Volume One: Basic Movie Playback and Media ...
The opposite of a reference movie is a self-contained movie file. In a self- contained movie file, all the media data needed for playing the movie is contained in the movie file itself. Or, put another way, a self-contained movie file does not ...
Tim Monroe, 2004
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Special Report: Prevention of Self-Contained Breathing ...
Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) are one of the most important items of personal protective equipment used by firefighters and rescue personnel. SCBA allow firefighters to enter hazardous environments to perform essential interior ...
Department of Homeland Security FEMA, U.S. Fire Administration, National Fire Data Center, 2013
9
Designing Teaching Strategies: An Applied Behavior Analysis ...
In the self-contained classroom, teachers are responsible for most of the repertoires taught to a single group of students. Thus, curricular materials are located for the range of abilities (e.g., baseline repertoires of the students in the class).
Robert Douglas Greer, 2002
10
American Self Contained
Contents: half slave, half free; George Washington's suit; nature of our trade and freedom; great awakening; winning of freedom; Caesar drunk; bankers' crusade; rich man, poor man; free-trade myth; passing of international trade; war debt ...
Samuel Crowther, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-CONTAINED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-contained is used in the context of the following news items.
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Scientists Have Created a Self-Contained Laser in a Cell
Modern medicine is overflowing with futuristic concepts, but even so, the notion of embedding lasers into living cells is a whole new level of mind-boggling. «Motherboard, Jul 15»
2
Could a Saharan Super-Skyscraper Be the Future of Urban Living?
The proposed project is a massive, self-contained, self-sustaining 1,400-foot tall city-tower to be constructed in the heart of Morocco's slice of the Sahara desert. «GOOD Magazine, Jul 15»
3
Google wants to make adverts self-contained stores
Impulse purchases look set to be made easier, at least if Google has its way, with AdWords gaining a "Buy on Google" button directly in adverts themselves. «SlashGear, Jul 15»
4
Synaptics aims to tighten security with self-contained fingerprint ID …
Attempts to move beyond password authentication look to have just received a nice little boost, with interface-specialists Synaptics announcing its new ... «Gizmag, Jul 15»
5
Mentor, Concord, Perry Joint District to buy Self-Contained
Mentor, Concord, Perry Joint District to buy Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus with grant. By Staff report, The News-Herald. Posted: 06/20/15, 11:39 PM EDT ... «News-Herald.com, Jun 15»
6
Instamic is a tiny, self-contained audio recorder
A new device is aiming to do for audio recording what the GoPro did for video recording. The Instamic is a small, self-contained, high-quality sound recorder. «Gizmag, Jun 15»
7
Modify Any Case of Beer Into a Self-Contained Ice Chest
There's no need to bring beer and a cooler to your picnic. With a few simple modifications, you can turn the box of any case of beer into a simple ice chest. «Lifehacker, May 15»
8
Blue Ridge OKs self-contained special education classrooms
FARMER CITY — The Blue Ridge school board unanimously voted to approve self-contained special education classrooms. The cost of implementing the ... «Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette, Feb 15»
9
Self-contained farms
The company's proposed business model involves taking standard shipping containers and transforming them into self-contained, continually producing farms. «Herald and News, Feb 15»
10
New self-contained communities will help reduce Dubai traffic
DUBAI // Self-contained communities that encourage people to live near their workplaces are the way to tackle Dubai's traffic congestion, according to a top ... «The National, Feb 15»

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