Cant (IPA: /ˈkænt/)
| Cant (n.) |
A corner; angle; niche. |
| Cant (n.) |
An outer or external angle. |
| Cant (n.) |
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl. |
| Cant (n.) |
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant. |
| Cant (n.) |
A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask. |
| Cant (n.) |
A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel. |
| Cant (n.) |
A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads. |
| Cant (v. t.) |
To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship. |
| Cant (v. t.) |
To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football. |
| Cant (v. t.) |
To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt. |
| Cant (n.) |
An affected, singsong mode of speaking. |
| Cant (n.) |
The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. |
| Cant (n.) |
The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy. |
| Cant (n.) |
Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars. |
| Cant (a.) |
Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar. |
| Cant (v. i.) |
To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone. |
| Cant (v. i.) |
To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic. |
| Cant (v. i.) |
To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning. |
| Cant (n.) |
A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction. |
| Cant (v. t.) |
to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction. |
| Cant () |
A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. |
| Cant |
Civil engineering term for a difference in elevation between edges of a road or railway |
| Cant |
Architectural term for a part of a facade set at an angle to another part of the facade |
| Cant |
Genetic element in the species Drosophila melanogaster |
| Cant |
Affectation of thinking, believing, and feeling what one in reality doesn't, whether knowingly or not |
| Cant |
Family name |
| Cant Synonyms |
Camber, Bank |
| Cant Synonyms |
Chamfer, Bevel |
| Cant Synonyms |
Buzzword |
| Cant Synonyms |
Pious Platitude |
| Cant Synonyms |
Vernacular, Slang, Patois, Argot, Lingo, Jargon |
| Cant Synonyms |
Cant Over, Pitch, Tilt, Slant |
| Cant (Last Name / Surname) |
Cant is the #62,531 most common last name / surname from the 2010 United States Census. The census reported that 320 people had that surname. |
| Translations |
Cant in Spanish |
| Example Sentence (Quote) ".. .that shapeless, formless, fibreless mass of platitudes which in official cant is called unsectarian religion ." - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " [To Tsunade] Reject makes a man strong. In other words you cant call yourself a man without being rejected" - Naruto |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "My mechanics so good, if he cant fix it, it ain't broken." - Anonymous |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures." - Politics |
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