can

IPA: kˈæn

A more or less cylindrical and often metal container or vessel.
A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
(archaic) A chamber pot.
(US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
(US, slang) Buttocks.
(slang) Jail or prison.
(slang, in the plural) Headphones.
(archaic) A drinking cup.
(nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
A chimney pot.
(slang, in the plural) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
(US, slang) An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
(vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.
(inorganic chemistry, uncountable) ceric ammonium nitrate
(initialism) The Andean Community of Nations.
Alternative spelling of Can.
(computing, manufacturing, automotive) Abbreviation of Controller Area Network., ISO standards 11898, 11898-1, 11898-2, and its predecessor standards.
(computing, manufacturing, automotive, countable) Abbreviation of controller area network.
(computing, countable) Initialism of campus area network.
(South Africa, countable) Acronym of community action network.
Initialism of consistent and asymptotically normal, a statistic estimator Tₙ(X₁, X₂, ..., Xₙ) is CAN (consistent and asymptotically normal) if ....
(Australia, countable) Acronym of court attendance notice.

(auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
(modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
(modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
(auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
(obsolete, transitive) To know.
(India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed).
To seal in a can.
To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
(transitive, slang) To shut up.
(US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
(golf, slang, transitive) To hole the ball.
(transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.

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