tain

Usage

• entertain

  When you entertain someone, you please or delight them by doing something that interests them, such as singing or acting.

• retain

  When you retain something, you keep it or have it for a long time.

• contain

  When a box or jar contains something, such as food, it holds or keeps it inside.

• abstain

  refrain from voting

• biocontainment

  the action of isolating hazardous biological materials in a secure place

• 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)

• containment

  a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully

• detain

  deprive of freedom

• detainee

  some held in custody

• entertainer

  One who entertains; a host.

• entertainment

  an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention

• maintain

  keep in a certain state, position, or activity

• maintainable

  capable of being maintained

• obtain

  receive a specified treatment (abstract)

• obtainable

  capable of being obtained

• pertain

  be relevant to

• pertaining

  of or relating to

• retainer

  One who, or that which, retains.

• sustainability

  the property of being sustainable