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cant

[ UK /kˈɑːnt/ ]
[ US /ˈkænt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
    they don't speak our lingo
  2. a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
  3. two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
  4. stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
  5. insincere talk about religion or morals
VERB
  1. heel over
    The tower is tilting
    The ceiling is slanting

How To Use cant In A Sentence

  • 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. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • He did his final piece of serious work on Tuesday morning, which was grand, and we have just kept him ticking over with a couple of canters.
  • We lapped the track a few times at a walk, trot and canter and the horse went through it pretty smoothly.
  • The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
  • The space left by evaporation is called the ullage, while the liquid lost is sometimes called the ‘angels' share’ and is particularly financially significant in the production of older cognac and Armagnac.
  • In addition, experimental flowers that matured a fruit (and therefore received a visit) had significantly larger corollas compared with corollas of flowers that did not initiate a fruit.
  • The value of the coffee becomes significantly higher when expressed in foreign currency.
  • The cancer subgroup, even those with very early tumours, had significantly lower cholesterol values than the group with polyps alone.
  • Real estate taxes are up locally because of significant increases in assessed real property values in recent years. Chris Davies (D)
  • While the Irish government generates a lot of noisy, self-righteous cant about the evils of cigarettes at home, it makes a pretty packet from ‘selling death’ abroad.
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