Can

verb can · able · could · couth · -

1. auxiliary, defective To know how to. She can speak English, French, and German.
2. auxiliary, defective To be able to. Can you remember your fifth birthday?
3. auxiliary, defective, informal, modal May; to be permitted or enabled to. You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework.
4. auxiliary, defective, modal To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to. Can it be Friday already?
5. auxiliary, defective, informal, modal Used to form requests, typically polite. Can you please come over here?
6. obsolete, transitive To know. ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman I can rimes of Robin Hood.
7. India, nonstandard, proscribed To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can Importance of Identifying Leaf: Identify Plants: If we can able to identify leaf, we can easily able to identify plants.
8. Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary, intransitive To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context. Can anot?
9. 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. Can liao, don’t need to use so much glue.

interjection canne · kin · c'

1. Manglish, Singlish OK, sure; indicates approval or acknowledgment.
2. Manglish, Singlish Used to convey reassurance.

particle canne · kin · c'

1. Manglish, Singlish, interrogative OK(?); used at the end of a question when seeking approval or acknowledgment. I cut this wire, can?

noun cans

1. A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal. I keep a can of fuel for emergencies.
2. A sealed metal container, cylindrical or cuboid in form, typically used to store preserved foods. Soup in a can lasts for years.
3. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
4. archaic A chamber pot.
5. US, archaic, slang a toilet or lavatory. Shit or get off the can.
6. Canada, US, childish, slang, vulgar Buttocks.
7. Canada, US, slang, vulgar The breasts of a woman.
8. slang Jail or prison. Bob’s in the can. He won’t be back for a few years.
9. in plural, slang Headphones.
10. archaic A drinking cup. VVhen the vulgar ſort / Sit on their Ale-bench, vvith their cups and kannes, / Matters of ſtate be not their common talke, / Nor pure religion by their lips prophande.
11. A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
12. A chimney pot.
13. in plural, slang An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
14. US, slang An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana. […] prosecution for selling and giving away marijuana, the evidence clearly constituted substantial proof that a package purchased by defendant contained marijuana where he requested "four cans" of marijuana to be delivered to himself and […]
15. A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.

verb cans · canning · canned · can

1. transitive To seal in a can. They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists.
2. transitive To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can. They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
3. transitive To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.). He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
4. slang, transitive To shut up. Can your gob.
5. US, euphemistic, transitive To fire or dismiss an employee. The boss canned him for speaking out.
6. slang, transitive To hole the ball. I thought I had canned it, but it just missed, and I tapped in the second one for a par.
7. transitive To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.

Similar: dump, scrap, stifle, make silent, let go, sack

proper noun

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

proper noun

1. A unisex given name from Vietnamese. Police say Huu Can Tran, 72, opened fire at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park, on Saturday night, before fatally shooting himself after a manhunt across the region on Sunday.

proper noun

1. alternative Alternative spelling of Can.Can.

proper noun

1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Controller Area Network, ISO standards 11898, 11898-1, 11898-2, and its predecessor standards.Controller Area Network

noun CANs

1. uncountable ceric ammonium nitrate
2. abbreviation, countable Abbreviation of controller area network.controller area network
3. abbreviation, countable, initialism Initialism of campus area network.campus area network
4. South Africa, abbreviation, acronym, countable Acronym of community action network.community action network
5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of consistent and asymptotically normal, a statistic estimator Tₙ(X₁, X₂, ..., Xₙ) is CAN (consistent and asymptotically normal) if ....consistent and asymptotically normal
6. Australia, abbreviation, acronym, countable Acronym of court attendance notice.court attendance notice

proper noun

1. initialism The Andean Community of Nations.