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
- The reader can see the scores in the box.
- Houseflies can take in only liquid foods.
- Lathyrism can also be caused by food adulteration.
- It was also the time canned foods had in the limelight.
- The package can also be evacuated and hermetically sealed.
- Can the template box be justified to the left of the screen
- They can be litter box trained and are quite fastidious groomers.
- The scaphoid can be palpated at the base of the anatomical snuff box.
- It can lead to the contamination of ground and the animal food chain.
- Canning of foods by heat sterilization was an extension of the same principle.