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containerize

containerize verb: to transport (cargo) in large, standard containers.

Verb

containerize (third-person singular simple present containerizes, present participle containerizing, simple past and past participle containerized)

  1. (transitive) To transport (cargo) in large, standard containers.
  2. (transitive) To modify (a ship or industry) to use such containers.
  3. (transitive) To run an application in a software container.
    • 1. First and foremost, containerize or dockerize the Spring Boot app using a Dockerfile.2017, Ajitesh Shukla, Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 115

Forms of containerize

third-person singular presentcontainerizes
present participlecontainerizing
past participlecontainerized
pastcontainerized

Origin of containerize

From container + -ize.

Words formed from containerize

Questions about containerize

What does containerize mean?
Containerize means to transport (cargo) in large, standard containers.
What part of speech is containerize?
Containerize is a verb.
What is the past tense of containerize?
The past tense of containerize is containerized.

Words near containerize in the dictionary

  1. containerises
  2. containerising
  3. containerizable
  4. containerization
  5. containerizations
  6. containerize
  7. containerized
  8. containerizes
  9. containerizing
  10. containerless
  11. containerlessness

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