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Can

verb
(past could; past part. could)
1.
Preserve in a can or tin.  Synonyms: put up, tin.
2.
Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.  Synonyms: dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate.  "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
noun
1.
Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..  Synonyms: tin, tin can.
2.
The quantity contained in a can.  Synonym: canful.
3.
A buoy with a round bottom and conical top.  Synonym: can buoy.
4.
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.  Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush.  "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
5.
A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination.  Synonyms: commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet.
6.
A room or building equipped with one or more toilets.  Synonyms: bathroom, john, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet.



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"Can" Quotes from Famous Books



... a letter saying those words, which I can show to my sweetheart when he asks how I got the money?" inquired ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... is His lovely Will towards thee. But first always do thy part, and until thou doest thy part I cannot begin mine, for thou couldst receive neither blessings nor blisses did I not receive them first from Him and hand them on to thee; so each are dependent the one on the other, and only together can we enter paradise. Think not I do not suffer as much as thyself and far more. I know thou dost suffer with thy body and with the losses of thine earthly loves, but I suffer far more with the loss of my Heavenly ...
— The Romance of the Soul • Lilian Staveley
... friend sincerely, and wept bitterly when she saw the worn volumes he had bequeathed to her. The cross she fastened round her neck on a thin gold chain, and this badge of a sacred order rested for many years on the heart of the strange, evil woman. You can see the tiny line of this chain in the few known portraits of Wilhelmine von Graevenitz. These pictures are very rare, Time and Hatred have hidden them but too well. Indeed, it is as though all the Swabian virtue had conspired together ...
— A German Pompadour - Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Graevenitz, - Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg • Marie Hay
... the affairs of McComas, I naturally had a lesser knowledge. They were more numerous and more complicated; nor was I close to them. I can only say that they went on prosperously, and continued to go on prosperously: their success ...
— On the Stairs • Henry B. Fuller
... to be a man," she went on, "a man and a hobo." The furrow vanished and the eyes suddenly went dancing. "That is what I should like to be—a hobo with a tomato-can and a fire beside ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck


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