All 10 Uses of
content
in
The Bourne Identity
- A discontented man was bought in Washington.†
Chpt 17discontented = not satisfiedstandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontented means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of contented as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
- This discontented man was in a position to give us a great deal of information, including the Medusa records.†
Chpt 17 *
- He finds the discontented men and offers them what they do not have.†
Chpt 19
- We found another discontented man; your system reproduces them with alarming rapidity.†
Chpt 20
- Discontented bulls who had found their own causes in a single man.†
Chpt 20
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- I was content before you came into my life, mein Herr, for I was minor.†
Chpt 7
- The driver was humming an unrecognizable tune, reading a newspaper, content with the fifty-franc note he had received in advance.†
Chpt 13 *
- The banker had opened the envelope, removed a card, studied the contents, and had returned both to Koenig.†
Chpt 4
- She began shouting and dropped her purse, the contents scattering over the floor of the small booth; the notebook was caught on the ledge, the pencil broken in the grip of her hand.†
Chpt 12
- But if your life were to end unnaturally, even accidentally, he'd be instructed to open the envelope and reveal the contents.†
Chpt 30
Definitions:
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(1)
(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.