What's the difference between cab and can?

Cab


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
  • (n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
  • (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.

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  • (1) It was founded in 1984 by Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" - Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947.
  • (2) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
  • (3) Group 1 (purpose to preserve the bladder, preoperative MVP-CAB): Four of 7 patients achieved a partial response.
  • (4) Sequences from the 5' upstream regions (-400 to translational start) of some cab genes were determined in this study, and a total of 16 tomato cab gene promoters for which sequences are now available were analyzed.
  • (5) Uber drivers are employees not contractors, California rules Read more Like many Ethiopian immigrants in San Diego , Sahilu gravitated towards driving a cab because he didn’t speak much English and couldn’t get recognition for his educational qualifications – in his case, a chemistry degree.
  • (6) TfL , which has come under pressure from black-cab drivers, who feel Uber has been getting too easy a time from the regulators, is running the consultation until 23 December.
  • (7) It was concluded that important alterations in SNS activity and thyroid hormone homeostasis occur in humans during CABS and deep hypothermia, and that changes in core temperature may contribute to these findings.
  • (8) Even for those who don't know a "540 cab" from a "360 grab", or what it means to "huck it", the scale of the achievement was clear.
  • (9) Endemic outbreaks of CAB often originate from contaminated infusion fluids.
  • (10) At both temperatures, the conditioned PMMA, CAB, silafocon A, and pasifocon C lenses wet slightly better, by 1 degree to 12 degrees, than unconditioned lenses.
  • (11) In London, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall were jammed from the start of the planned "go slow" at 2pm, as thousands of black cabs gathered honking their horns, bringing total gridlock to the centre of the capital, while supporters waved banners and started occasionally chanting: "Boris, out!"
  • (12) Topographical distribution of concanavalin A binding sites (CABS) was studied in two lines of virally transformed fibroblasts as a function of fatty acid composition.
  • (13) Arrhythmias were analyzed in 50 patients undergoing cardiac surgery: 27 with valve surgery, 15 with coronary artery bypass (CAB), 5 with CAB and valve surgery, and 3 with miscellaneous procedures.
  • (14) She appeared out of nowhere, said a few words that no one could hear and then slowly made her way through the photographers to a cab and vanished: a great, big, fruitily dressed fairy godmother who, when you come to think of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to any of the other seven billion people on the planet.
  • (15) A study was made of lipid peroxidation and the antioxidant system in patients with bronchial asthma (BA) and chronic asthmatic bronchitis (CAB) before and after muscular exercise.
  • (16) The central subdivision of the BNST appeared as a histochemically clearly circumscribed compartment with massive fibre immunoreactivity for SOM, ENK, VIP, SYN, CHR-A, CAB as well as SOM, ENK, NT and CAB positive cells but lacked cytosolic or fibre-like immunolabel for NPY and SP.
  • (17) He picked the brothers up in his leased taxi-cab, and drove them to Man-O-Salwa, a kebab restaurant in Somerville, Massachusetts, where Matanov and Tamerlan often dined.
  • (18) London's black-cab drivers are to launch private prosecutions against minicab drivers who use Uber , the booking software that allows smartphone users to hail private-hire cars from any location.
  • (19) Another 129 patients with unstable disease (group II) had unilateral, asymptomatic carotid lesions and were prospectively randomized to receive either combined operations (IIA; n = 71) or CAB followed by delayed CE (IIB; n = 58).
  • (20) To determine the importance of operative variables in the development of postoperative atelectasis and the incidence of phrenic nerve injury caused by topical cold cardioplegic solution, we studied 57 patients (53 male, four female) undergoing CAB.

Can


Definition:

  • () an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]
  • (n.) A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids.
  • (n.) A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can.
  • (v. t.) To preserve by putting in sealed cans
  • (v. t. & i.) To know; to understand.
  • (v. t. & i.) To be able to do; to have power or influence.
  • (v. t. & i.) To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to.

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