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
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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 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.
  • 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.
  • Rihanna is real clingy, a bit two clingy saying he cant talk to other women, even though there just friends! but he is also in the wrong for doing it!!!!! like ye dnt go round beatin up women no matter how bad they are! gooddd like … buh i LOVE chris brown so im natt sayn nethn! Chris Brown Rihanna Break-Up Following Alleged Assault
  • Applicants for the job must have previous experience.
  • There are no problems, either, in regard to fuels and lubricants, that is, in the refining industry. The Speech
  • The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
  • The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
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