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Container vs. Wrapper — What's the Difference?

Container vs. Wrapper — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Container and Wrapper

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Container

A container is any receptacle or enclosure for holding a product used in storage, packaging, and transportation, including shipping. Things kept inside of a container are protected by being inside of its structure.

Wrapper

A piece of paper, plastic, or foil covering and protecting something sold or for sale
A sweet wrapper
Cellophane wrappers

Container

An object for holding or transporting something
The cakes will keep for up to two weeks if kept in an airtight container

Wrapper

A loose robe or gown
She put a wrapper over her nightdress

Container

A receptacle, such as a carton, can, or jar, in which material is held or carried.
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Wrapper

The material, such as paper, in which something is wrapped
A candy wrapper.

Container

A large reusable receptacle that can accommodate smaller cartons or cases in a single shipment, designed for efficient handling of cargo.

Wrapper

The material encircling a magazine or newspaper sent by mail.

Container

Someone who contains; something that contains.

Wrapper

A book jacket.

Container

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

Wrapper

The tobacco leaf covering a cigar.

Container

(transportation) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.

Wrapper

A loose dressing gown or negligee.

Container

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

Wrapper

One that wraps, as a store employee who wraps parcels.

Container

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

Wrapper

Something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping.

Container

(object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.

Wrapper

An outer garment; a loose robe or dressing gown.

Container

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

Wrapper

One who, or that which, wraps.
He proved to be a remarkably efficient wrapper of parcels.

Container

(computing) A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.

Wrapper

(object-oriented) A construct, such as a class or module, that serves to mediate access to another.
We need a Perl wrapper for this C++ library.

Container

One who, or that which, contains; particularly, an artifactual object that is designed to contain some fluid or solid material, object or objects, especially for convenience in transporting the contained objects.

Wrapper

One who, or that which, wraps.

Container

A large metallic box designed to hold many smaller boxes or packages, and used for convenience in loading and unloading large quantities of freight, such as on ships, trains, or airplanes.

Wrapper

That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering.

Container

Any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

Wrapper

Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's wrapper.

Wrapper

A loose dressing gown for women

Wrapper

The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped

Wrapper

Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person

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