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containerized

containerized is the simple past and past participle of containerize.

containerized is the alternative form of containerised.

Meaning of containerize

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

Meaning of containerised

Adjective

containerised (not comparable)

  1. (UK) Of freight, packed in a container for transport.
    • At the time, international deep-sea shipping remained a loose cargo operation, although BR did seek to influence conversion to unit loads by providing a containerised short sea shipping service between Harwich and Rotterdam in 1968.2020 May 20, Industry Insider, “An online boost for freight”, in Rail, page 68

Adjective

containerized (not comparable)

  1. Built to be operated out of a seacan, shipping container.

Origin of containerized

containerize + -ed (past tense): Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *tn̥eh₁yéti Proto-Italic *tenēō Latin teneō Latin contineōder. Latin continērelbor. Old French contenirbor. Middle English conteinen Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English conteiner English container Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English containerize Proto-Germanic *-ōd- Old English -ode Middle English -ede English -ed English containerized From containerize + -ed. (adjective): Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *tn̥eh₁yéti Proto-Italic *tenēō Latin teneō Latin contineōder. Latin...

Words formed from containerized

Questions about containerized

What does containerized mean?
Containerized means built to be operated out of a seacan, shipping container.
What is containerized the simple past and past participle of?
Containerized is the simple past and past participle of containerize.
What part of speech is containerized?
Containerized is an adjective.

Words near containerized in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: containerized (page history and authors); containerize (page history and authors); containerised (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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