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cant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | argot, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
| Type of | non-standard speech |
| Has types | rhyming slang, street name |
cant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | buzzword |
| Type of | hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, bunk |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pious platitude |
| Type of | talking, talk |
Examples of cant
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I think they are now a club that cant attract the top earners like their rivals.
From the people.co.uk
My daughter died at Christmas three years ago and we cant come to terms with it.
From the mirror.co.uk
Rugby League followers in Sydney just cant their heads around the whole concept.
From the dailytelegraph.com.au
In an age of cant and baloney, Andrew Bacevich offers a bracing slap of reality.
From the chron.com
I just cant accept that some countries pretend to be innocent, to be threatened.
From the economist.com
Soundcloud is a cold myspace because you cant be distracted by looking at girls.
From the guardian.co.uk
I cant believe that anyone could try and compare this to the Casey Anthony case.
From the orlandosentinel.com
I cant consider youre not more fashionable because you definitely have the gift.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
I cant do anything to vent so i scream at them and i get into even more trouble.
From the psychcentral.com
- Buzzword: stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
- Heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
- Bank: 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
- Slang: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
- Insincere talk about religion or morals
- Bevel: two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
- The Song of Songs (Hebrew, , Shir ha-Shirim), is a book of the Hebrew Bible--one of the five megillot (scrolls)--found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim (or "writings"). ...
- Cant (or Canted) is the architectural term describing part, or segment, of a facade which is at an angle to another part of the same facade. The angle breaking the facade is less than a right angle thus enabling a canted facade to be viewed as, and remain, one composition.
- CANT (Cantieri Aeronautici e Navali Triestini, sometimes labelled C.R.D.A. CANT, or in English Trieste Shipbuilding and Naval Aeronautics) was an Italian aviation company which originally specialised in building naval aircraft, formed in 1923 as part of the CNT (Cantiere Navale Triestino, or in ...
