Refine this word faster
Can
Definitions
- 1 OK, sure; indicates approval or acknowledgment. Manglish, Singlish
- 2 Used to convey reassurance. Manglish, Singlish
- 1 Alternative spelling of Can. alt-of, alternative
- 2 Abbreviation of Controller Area Network, ISO standards 11898, 11898-1, 11898-2, and its predecessor standards. abbreviation, alt-of
- 3 The Andean Community of Nations. initialism
- 4 A river in Essex, England, which joins the River Chelmer in Chelmsford; in full, the River Can.
- 5 A unisex given name; used primarily as a middle name.
"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."
- 1 A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.
"I keep a can of fuel for emergencies."
- 2 ceric ammonium nitrate uncountable
- 3 airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. wordnet
- 4 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.
"Soup in a can lasts for years."
- 5 Abbreviation of controller area network. abbreviation, alt-of, countable
Show 22 more definitions
- 6 a room or building equipped with one or more toilets wordnet
- 7 A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- 8 Initialism of campus area network. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
- 9 a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination wordnet
- 10 A chamber pot. archaic
- 11 Acronym of community action network. South-Africa, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable
- 12 the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on wordnet
- 13 A chamber pot.; a toilet or lavatory. US, archaic, slang
"Shit or get off the can."
- 14 Initialism of consistent and asymptotically normal, a statistic estimator Tₙ(X₁, X₂, ..., Xₙ) is CAN (consistent and asymptotically normal) if .... abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 15 a buoy with a round bottom and conical top wordnet
- 16 Buttocks. Canada, US, childish, slang, vulgar
- 17 Acronym of court attendance notice. Australia, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable
- 18 the quantity contained in a can wordnet
- 19 The breasts of a woman. Canada, US, slang, vulgar
- 20 Jail or prison. slang
"Bob’s in the can. He won’t be back for a few years."
- 21 Headphones. in-plural, slang
- 22 A drinking cup. archaic
"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."
- 23 A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- 24 A chimney pot.
- 25 An E-meter used in Scientology auditing. in-plural, slang
- 26 An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana. US, slang
"[…] 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 […]"
- 27 A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- 1 OK(?); used at the end of a question when seeking approval or acknowledgment. Manglish, Singlish, interrogative
"I cut this wire, can?"
- 1 To know how to. auxiliary, defective
"She can speak English, French, and German."
- 2 To seal in a can. transitive
"They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists."
- 3 preserve in a can or tin wordnet
- 4 To be able to. auxiliary, defective
"Can you remember your fifth birthday?"
- 5 To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can. transitive
"They spent August canning fruit and vegetables."
Show 13 more definitions
- 6 terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position wordnet
- 7 May; to be permitted or enabled to. auxiliary, defective, informal, modal
"You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework."
- 8 To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.). transitive
"He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail."
- 9 To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to. auxiliary, defective, modal
"Can it be Friday already?"
- 10 To shut up. slang, transitive
"Can your gob."
- 11 Used to form requests, typically polite. auxiliary, defective, informal, modal
"Can you please come over here?"
- 12 To fire or dismiss an employee. US, euphemistic, transitive
"The boss canned him for speaking out."
- 13 To know. obsolete, transitive
"ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman I can rimes of Robin Hood."
- 14 To hole the ball. slang, transitive
"I thought I had canned it, but it just missed, and I tapped in the second one for a par."
- 15 To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can India, nonstandard, proscribed
"Importance of Identifying Leaf: Identify Plants: If we can able to identify leaf, we can easily able to identify plants."
- 16 To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover. transitive
- 17 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, auxiliary, intransitive
"Can anot?"
- 18 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. Manglish, Singlish, intransitive
"Can liao, don’t need to use so much glue."
Etymology
From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence also know). Doublet of con. See also: canny, cunning.
From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence also know). Doublet of con. See also: canny, cunning.
From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence also know). Doublet of con. See also: canny, cunning.
From Middle English canne, from Old English canne (“glass, container, cup, jar”), from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“can, tankard, mug, cup”).
From Middle English canne, from Old English canne (“glass, container, cup, jar”), from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“can, tankard, mug, cup”).
Abbreviation
Abbreviation
From Spanish CAN.
See also for "can"
Next best steps
Mini challenge
Want a quick game? Try Word Finder.