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Määritelmät
Adjektiivit
- (British, dialect) lively, lusty.
Verbit
- (transitive) To divide or parcel out.
- (transitive) To set (something) at an angle.
- (intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- (transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
- (intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
- (intransitive) To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- (transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
- (transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
- (intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- (obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
Substantiivit
- (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
- (obsolete) corner, niche
- slope, the angle at which something is set.
- (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- Shelta.
- An outer or external angle.
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- (uncountable, pejorative) Empty, hypocritical talk.
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- (countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name of the bearer, canting arms.
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give.
- (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- (obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
- (nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
Esimerkit
- He had the look of a prince, but the cant of a fishmonger.
- I am aware that the phrase free inquiry has become too much a cant phrase soiled by the handling of the ignorant and the reckless by those who fall into the mistake of supposing that religion has its root in the understanding and by those who can see just far enough to doubt and no further.
- People claim to care about the poor of Africa, but it is largely cant.
- He is too well grounded for all your philosophical cant to hurt.
- Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
- To sell their leases by cant.
- The doctor here, / When he discourseth of dissection, / Of vena cava and of vena porta, / The meseraeum and the mesentericum, / What does he else but cant?
- that uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language, if I may so call it
- the rankest rogue that ever canted
- The first and principal person in the temple was Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant.
- Owing to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water, and from my perch on the cross-trees I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay.
- It is not only of great service in keeping the boat in her due position on the sea, but also in creating a tendency immediately to recover from any sudden cant, or lurch, from a heavy wave; and it is besides beneficial in diminishing the violence of beating against the sides of the vessel which she may go to relieve.
- to give a ball a cant
- to cant a cask; to cant a ship
- to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football
- A canting coat-of-arms, canting arms, armes parlantes.
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