| 单词 | can |
| 释义 | can (once / 2 pages) 1nv 2v 3n 4n 5n A can is a metal container, usually cylindrical in shape, which has an airtight seal when it's new. All kinds of goods come in cans, from fruit and vegetables to paint and oil. The verb can means to preserve food in a can or glass jar. If your garden produces more tomatoes than you can possibly eat, you might make salsa and can it to eat all winter long. Can is also a slang word with several meanings. It means rear end, toilet, and it also means to fire someone: "Watch out, the boss canned three people yesterday! You could be next." WORD FAMILYcan: canful, canned, cannery, canning, cannot, cans, could+/cannery: canneries USAGE EXAMPLESCurrent business controversies suggest that Enron-style oversight failures could be occurring in some of today’s corporate boardrooms. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) “I think that’s why he felt he could deescalate things. He was very soft-spoken. He just talked to people, calmed them down.” Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) A mandatory evacuation order was still in place there and it was not clear when, if at all, residents could return to their houses. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1n airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. Syn|Hypo|Hyper tin, tin can beer can a can that holds beer caddy, tea caddya can for storing tea cannikina small can coffee cana can for storing ground coffee milk canlarge can for transporting milk oilcana can with a long nozzle to apply oil to machinery soda cana can for holding soft drinks container any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) 2n the quantity contained in a can Syn|Hyper canful containerful the quantity that a container will hold 3v preserve in a can or tin 2Syn|Hyper put up, tin keep, preserve prevent (food) from rotting v terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position 3Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate employ, engage, hire engage or hire for work retire make (someone) retire pension offlet go from employment with an attractive pension clean outforce out furlough, lay offdismiss, usually for economic reasons squeeze outforce out dismiss, drop, send away, send packingstop associating with superannuateretire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability downsizedismiss from work remove remove from a position or an office n a buoy with a round bottom and conical top 4Syn|Hyper can buoy buoy bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards n the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on 5Syn|Hyper 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 body part any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity 1n a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination Syn|Hypo|Hyper commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet flushless toilet a toilet that relies on bacteria to break down waste matter (instead of using water) flush toilet, lavatorya toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it potty chair, potty seattoilet consisting of a small seat used by young children plumbing fixture a fixture for the distribution and use of water in a building 2n a room or building equipped with one or more toilets Syn|Hypo|Hyper bathroom, john, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet head (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship comfort station, convenience, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, restroom, toilet facility, wash rooma toilet that is available to the public washrooma lavatory (particularly a lavatory in a public place) W.C., closet, loo, water closeta toilet in Britain ladies' room, powder rooma woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building latrinea public toilet in a military area men's, men's rooma public toilet for men room an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling |
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