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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cant1 /kænt/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- insincere, false, or hypocritical statements:a lot of pretentious cant.
cant2 /kænt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a sudden movement that tilts or overturns a thing.
- a slanting or tilted position.
v. [no object] - to tilt or turn with a sudden jerk:The boat canted violently.
can't /kænt/USA pronunciation - Pronounscontraction of cannot.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cant1 (kant),USA pronunciation n. - insincere, esp. conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
- Linguisticsthe private language of the underworld.
- Linguisticsthe phraseology peculiar to a particular class, party, profession, etc.:the cant of the fashion industry.
- whining or singsong speech, esp. of beggars.
v.i. - to talk hypocritically.
- to speak in the whining or singsong tone of a beggar;
beg.
- Latin base cant- in cantus song, canticus singsong, etc., whence Old English cantere singer, cantic song; see chant
- 1495–1505
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged hypocrisy, sham, pretense, humbug.
cant2 (kant),USA pronunciation n. - a salient angle.
- a sudden movement that tilts or overturns a thing.
- a slanting or tilted position.
- an oblique line or surface, as one formed by cutting off the corner of a square of cube.
- an oblique or slanting face of anything.
- Civil Engineering, Rail Transportbank1 (def. 6).
- a sudden pitch or toss.
- Also called flitch. a partly trimmed log.
adj. - oblique or slanting.
v.t. - to bevel;
form an oblique surface upon. - to put in an oblique position;
tilt;
tip. - to throw with a sudden jerk.
v.i. - to take or have an inclined position;
tilt;
turn.
- Celtic), Welsh cant periphery, rim, felloe; probably not akin to Greek kanthós corner of the eye; compare canteen, cantle, canton
- Celtic; compare Latin cant(h)us iron tire (
- a Romance base *cantu(m) with the related senses "rim, border'' and "angle corner,'' probably
- Anglo-French cant, Old French chant
- Middle English: side, border 1325–75
- Scottish Termshearty;
merry.
- Low German kant merry, bold
- Middle English 1250–1300
- Pronounscontraction of cannot.
See can 1, cannot, contraction. Cant., - Place NamesCanterbury.
- Cantonese.
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