She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday?
Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen?
Can it be Friday already?
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[...]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
I can rimes of Robin Hood.
I can no Latin, quod she.
Let the priest in surplice white, / That defunctive music can.
Fill the cup and fill the can, / Have a rouse before the morn.
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
Can your gob.
The boss canned him for speaking out.
A can of beer.
My car ran out of gas. Can I buy a can of gasoline to take to the car?