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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. constituting a complete and independent unit in and of itself;
- Example: "the university is like a self-contained city with shops and all amenities"

2. in full control of your faculties;
- Example: "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"
- Example: "perfectly poised and sure of himself"
- Example: "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"
- Example: "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"
[syn: collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Self-contained \Self`-con*tained"\, a.
   1. Having self-control; reserved; uncommunicative; wholly
      engrossed in one's self.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Mach.) Having all the essential working parts connected
      by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc.,
      so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon
      fastening outside of the machine itself.
      [1913 Webster]

   Self-contained steam engine.
      (a) A steam engine having both bearings for the crank
          shaft attached to the frame of the engine.
      (b) A steam engine and boiler combined and fastened
          together; a portable steam engine.
          [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

self-contained
    adj 1: constituting a complete and independent unit in and of
           itself; "the university is like a self-contained city
           with shops and all amenities"
    2: in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained
       collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly
       poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more
       dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and
       self-possessed in the face of trouble" [syn: collected,
       equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained,
       self-possessed]