can

noun

A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.

A sealed metal container, cylindrical or cuboid in form, typically used to store preserved foods.

A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).

(US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.

(childish or vulgar, slang, Canada, US) Buttocks.

(vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.

(slang) Jail or prison.

(slang, in the plural) Headphones.

(nautical) A cylindrical 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.

A river in Essex, England, which joins the River Chelmer in Chelmsford; in full, the River Can.

(initialism) The Andean Community of Nations.

(inorganic chemistry, uncountable) ceric ammonium nitrate

Alternative spelling of Can..

(computing, manufacturing, automotive, countable) Abbreviation of controller area network.

(computing, manufacturing, automotive) Abbreviation of Controller Area Network, ISO standards 11898, 11898-1, 11898-2, and its predecessor standards.

(computing, countable) Initialism of campus area network.

Initialism of consistent and asymptotically normal, a statistic estimator Tₙ(X₁, X₂, ..., Xₙ) is CAN (consistent and asymptotically normal) if ....

(South Africa, countable) Acronym of community action network.

(Australia, countable) Acronym of court attendance notice.

(archaic) A chamber pot.

(archaic) A drinking cup.

verb

(auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to.

(auxiliary verb, defective) 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; to be possible for (someone or something) to.

(modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) Used to form requests, typically polite.

(Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary or intransitive) To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context.

(Manglish, Singlish, intransitive) To be fine or acceptable; to be possible; (with liao or already) to be enough. Often used in conjunction with a variety of clause-final particles, e.g., lah, meh or one, to express different attitudes towards the subject matter.

(transitive) To seal in a can.

(transitive) To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.

(transitive) To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).

(transitive, slang) To shut up.

(US, euphemistic, transitive) 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.

(India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can

(obsolete, transitive) To know.

Synonyms for can

mayn tinn

Words related to can

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