can vs may
Definitions
noun
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- a buoy with a round bottom and conical top
- the quantity contained in a can
verb
- preserve in a can or tin
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
Examples
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.
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.
Definitions
noun
- 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.
Management claimed the lockout was a temporary measure and that the plant would be reopened on May 9.
