can vs may

Definitions

noun

1. a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
2. a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
3. airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
4. a buoy with a round bottom and conical top
5. the quantity contained in a can

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verb

1. preserve in a can or tin
2. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

Examples

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.

I can't find any relevant material on him in the library.

Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish.

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noun

1. thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America

Examples

Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary.

Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country.

Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.

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