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1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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]

Thesaurus Results for Self-contained:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
acquisitive, aloof, ambitious for self, autarchic, autarkic, autistic, autonomous, bashful, calm, careerist, close, collected, complete, composed, controlled, cool, detached, dissociable, distant, egotistical, entire, even-tempered, formal, free-spirited, freewheeling, grasping, grave, greedy, imperturbable, in control, incompatible, independent, individualistic, inner-directed, insociable, mopey, mopish, morose, narcissistic, neutral, nonaligned, nongregarious, nonpartisan, peaceful, personalistic, placid, possessive, privatistic, remote, reserved, reticent, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered, self-considerative, self-controlled, self-dependent, self-determined, self-devoted, self-directing, self-esteeming, self-governed, self-governing, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-possessed, self-reliant, self-seeking, self-serving, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, selfish, serene, serious, snug, sober, socially incompatible, solemn, sovereign, standoffish, sullen, third-force, third-world, tranquil, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, uncongenial, undisturbed, unemotional, unflappable, unfriendly, ungenial, unitary, unperturbed, unruffled, unsociable, unsocial, whole, withdrawn
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