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Can

verb

(past could; past part. could)

1.

Preserve in a can or tin. Synonyms: put up, tin.

2.

Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position. Synonyms: dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate. "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

noun

1.

Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.. Synonyms: tin, tin can.

2.

The quantity contained in a can. Synonym: canful.

3.

A buoy with a round bottom and conical top. Synonym: can buoy.

4.

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush. "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

5.

A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination. Synonyms: commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet.

6.

A room or building equipped with one or more toilets. Synonyms: bathroom, john, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet.

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"Can" Quotes from Famous Books

... and strength." Even our own deathless and priceless soul cannot say to us: "Thou shalt love me supremely, and before all other beings and things." But the infinite and adorable God, the Being that made us, and has redeemed us, can of right demand that we love and honor Him first of all, ...

— Sermons to the Natural Man • William G.T. Shedd

... a hundred reasons for saying that a hippopotamus is not a table: you'll have to end up agreeing that neither is a table a table—it only seems to be a table. Well, that's what the hippopotamus seems to be. So how can you prove that something is not something else, when neither is something else some other ...

— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort

... an understanding of it is of value to the layman in so far as the knowledge helps him to read the artist's language and thus to receive his message. Both for artist and for layman technique is only a means. Out of his own intelligent and patient experience the layman can win his way to an understanding of methods; and his standard of judgment, good enough for his own purposes, is the degree of expressiveness which the work of art, by virtue of its qualities of execution, is able to achieve. Skill may be enjoyed ...

— The Gate of Appreciation - Studies in the Relation of Art to Life • Carleton Noyes

... the distance of seven days, or perhaps the planet may not have a favourable aspect for six months, during all which time the body is kept in the house. For this purpose a fit chest or coffin is provided, which is so artificially jointed that no noisome smell can escape, and in this the body is placed, having been previously embalmed with spices. The coffin is ornamented with painting, and is covered over with an embroidered cloth. Every day, while the body remains unburied, a table is spread near ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr

... me specially to our Lord—to his Church. The Church frowns on such a love—such marriages. She does not forbid them—but they pain her heart. I have accepted her judgment till now, without difficulty, without conflict. Now to obey is hard. But I can ...

— Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. I. • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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