can

verb16

1. •
   to be able to do something

   • Can you remember your fifth birthday?
   • Animals can experience emotions.
2. •
   To know how to.

   • She can speak English, French, and German.
   • I can play football.
3. •
   (Singlish) To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context.

   • Can anot?
4. •
   (India, nonstandard) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can

   • Importance of Identifying Leaf: Identify Plants: If we can able to identify leaf, we can easily able to identify plants. — 2011
5. •
   (informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.

   • You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework.
   • Can I use your pen?
6. •
   Used to form requests, typically polite.

   • Can you please come over here?
   • Can we try that scene again?
7. •
   To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to.

   • Can it be Friday already?
   • Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
8. •
   To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).

   • He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
9. •
   (US) To fire or dismiss an employee.

   • The boss canned him for speaking out.
10. •
    To seal in a can.

    • They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists.
11. •
    To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.

    • They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
12. •
    To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
13. •
    (slang) To shut up.

    • Can your gob.
14. •
    (slang) To hole the ball.

    • I thought I had canned it, but it just missed, and I tapped in the second one for a par. — 1958
15. •
    (Singlish) To be fine or acceptable; to be possible; (with liao or already) to be enough. Often used in conjunction with a variety of clause-final particles, e.g., lah, meh or one, to express different attitudes towards the subject matter.

    • Can liao, don’t need to use so much glue.
16. •
    (no longer used) To know.

    • I can rimes of Robin Hood. — 1360

noun15

1. •
   A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.

   • I keep a can of fuel for emergencies.
2. •
   A sealed metal container, cylindrical or cuboid in form, typically used to store preserved foods.

   • Soup in a can lasts for years.
3. •
   A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
4. •
   (slang) Jail or prison.

   • Bob’s in the can. He won’t be back for a few years.
5. •
   (slang, vulgar) Buttocks.
6. •
   [in the plural] (slang) Headphones.
7. •
   (US, slang) An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
8. •
   (slang, vulgar) The breasts of a woman.
9. •
   A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
10. •
    A chimney pot.
11. •
    A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
12. •
    [in the plural] (slang) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
13. •
    (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.

    • Shit or get off the can.
    • Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
14. •
    (no longer used) A drinking cup.

    • VVhen the vulgar sort / Sit on their Ale-bench, vvith their cups and kannes, / Matters of state be not their common talke, / Nor pure religion by their lips prophande. — 1600
15. •
    (no longer used) A chamber pot.

exclamation2

1. •
   (Singlish) OK, sure; indicates approval or acknowledgment.
2. •
   (Singlish) Used to convey reassurance.

particle1

1. •
   (Singlish) OK(?); used at the end of a question when seeking approval or acknowledgment.

   • I cut this wire, can?

noun6

1. •
   ceric ammonium nitrate
2. •
   Abbreviation of controller area network.
3. •
   Initialism of campus area network.
4. •
   (Australia) Acronym of court attendance notice.
5. •
   (South-Africa) Acronym of community action network.
6. •
   Initialism of consistent and asymptotically normal, a statistic estimator Tₙ(X₁, X₂, ..., Xₙ) is CAN (consistent and asymptotically normal) if ....

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of cantoris.