can
IPA: kˈæn
noun
- 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.
verb
- (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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Examples of "can" in Sentences
- Now, the bath is something I can make easily..can get all ingredients.
- And I can also see how that is or would be dissapointing to those that *can* do both.
- I know it can be difficult to do it properly, but shouldn't that mean it should be supported when a poet *can* do it well?
- Hi Nandita, wud like to participate in ur event..how many posts can we submit..coz, i think, most of what I make are from leftovers..can I sent u a bunch?
- As my partner summarized it, "Both by how cruel people can be to each other, and by the wonder that it *can* be overcome and if they can do it, so can we!"
- I have looked all over for your new book "Real Live Boyfriends" and I cant find it,,can you tell me if theres a web site or something that I can get it from?
- You can store your delicious lychees in the refrigerator for up to 10 days, if you can resist eating them all as soon as you bring them home from the supermarket.
- I know of none in this case, but folks who want to make a scientific case for ID can try to find some, or find some other testable model for which they *can* find supporting data.
- We know can rely on the market to deliver food in this country because experience has shown that the market *can* deliver food to everyone who needs it, at least for the past couple of hundred years.
- Not that it's a compelling interest of government that can not be met in any other way but by limiting that individual Right, but if they *want* to impose gun control because they *think* it will help reduce crime and I don't think that anyone asked to show that this is actually true, *can*, so...they can do that.
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