CAN • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Can

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kæn/ /kən/ Listen

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" Antonym: hire.

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.

See more definitions of Can...

See images of 'Can'

Antonyms of 'Can'

Etymology of 'Can'

Related searches:

WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University

Share |

"Can" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Certainly. I can do that," said the boy quickly. "But I shall probably ride him pretty hard and fast. I do not think Mr. Simms will object when he ...

— The Pony Rider Boys in Montana • Frank Gee Patchin

... more reasonable than in the perusal of the authors of antiquity; of those whose works have been the delight of ages, and transmitted as the great inheritance of mankind from one generation to another: surely, no man can, without the utmost arrogance, imagine that he brings any superiority of understanding to the perusal of these books which have been preserved in the devastations of cities, and snatched up from the wreck of nations; which those who fled before barbarians ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume IV [The Rambler and The Adventurer] • Samuel Johnson

... out of bed. "You can have your rest, the three of you," said he. "And as for me I can sit by the fire with my feet in the ashes as often as I did before." The three youths got into the three beds and when they were in them Feet-in-the-Ashes took the pot of balsam ...

— The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said • Padraic Colum

... nearly 81 per cent of the non-graduates have only 5 failures or less, taken in comparison with the fact that approximately one fourth of the failing graduates have 8 or more failures, argues that the number of failures alone can hardly be considered one of the larger factors in causing the dropping out. In a report concerning the working children of Cincinnati, H.T. Wooley remarks[33] that "two-thirds of our children leaving the public schools are the failures." This seems to suppose failing a large cause ...

— The High School Failures - A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or - Commercial High School Subjects • Francis P. Obrien

... Then, being my author, it's plain as can be That you are to blame if I'm naughty—not me. But, father, our Geste, though quite corking in places, Has too many fights and too little embraces. You've made all our lovers so frightfully slow, You ought to have married them pages ago. The books that are nicest are ...

— The Geste of Duke Jocelyn • Jeffery Farnol

Copyright © 2025 Free Translator.org