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• bag go
  a flexible container with a single opening
  
• bag, handbag, pocketbook, purse go
  a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
  
• basket, handbasket go
  a container that is usually woven and has handles
  
• bin go
  a container
  
• bowl, pipe bowl go
  a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
  
• box go
  a (usually rectangular) container
  
• bread-bin, breadbox go
  a container used to keep bread or cake in
  
• bunker go
  a large container for storing fuel
  
• can, tin, tin can go
  airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
  
• tin, canister, cannister go
  metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
  
• capsule go
  a small container
  
• cargo container go
  a large container for freight
  
• case go
  a portable container for carrying several objects
  
• case, display case, showcase, vitrine go
  a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
  
• cassette go
  a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video
  
• cup go
  a small open container usually used for drinking
  
• cylinder go
  a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air
  
• dice cup, dice box go
  a small container (open at one end) in which dice are shaken by hand and from which they are thrown
  
• dish go
  a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
  
• dispenser go
  a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts
  
• drawer go
  a boxlike container in a piece of furniture
  
• Dumpster go
  a container designed to receive and transport and dump waste
  
• empty go
  a container that has been emptied
  
• envelope go
  a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc.
  
• glass, drinking glass go
  a container for holding liquids while drinking
  
• grab bag go
  a container from which a person draws a wrapped item at random without knowing the contents
  
• magnetic bottle go
  container consisting of any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions
  
• mailer go
  a container for something to be mailed
  
• trough, manger go
  a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
  
• measure go
  a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
  
• cast, mold, mould go
  container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
  
• parcel, package go
  a wrapped container
  
• pan go
  shallow container made of metal
  
• pod, fuel pod go
  a detachable container of fuel on an airplane
  
• pot, flowerpot go
  a container in which plants are cultivated
  
• powder horn, powder flask go
  container for carrying gunpowder
  
• receptacle go
  a container that is used to put or keep things in
  
• reliquary go
  a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)
  
• saltcellar go
  a small container for holding salt at the dining table
  
• bank, money box, savings bank, coin bank go
  a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
  
• scuttle, coal scuttle go
  container for coal
  
• shaker go
  a container in which something can be shaken
  
• spoon go
  a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle
  
• storage ring go
  container consisting of a set of magnets set in a doughnut-shaped ring around which charged particles from an accelerator can be kept circulating until they are used
  
• thimble go
  a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing
  
• time capsule go
  container for preserving historical records to be discovered at some future time
  
• vessel go
  an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
  
• wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket, wastebasket, waste basket, circular file go
  a container with an open top
  
• watering can, watering pot go
  a container with a handle and a spout with a perforated nozzle
  
• wheeled vehicle go
  a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people
  
• workbasket, workbox, workbag go
  container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing)