(n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
(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.
(n.) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
(n.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
(n.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
(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.
(v. t.) To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
(v. t.) To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
(n.) An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
(n.) The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.
(n.) The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
(n.) Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
(a.) Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
(v. i.) To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
(v. i.) To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
(v. i.) To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
(n.) A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.
(v. t.) to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vince, too, prefers plain speaking to corporate cant – and is even willing to suggest that Tory householders should go elsewhere to buy their energy if they object to his stance.
(2) Bob Cant, editor of a 2008 book called Footsteps and Witnesses: Lesbian and Gay Lifestories from Scotland, says that when he was growing up in 1950s and 60s Scotland, the illegality of homosexual activity was “not a problem for me at all”.
(3) The purpose of this study was to investigate the changes of the cant of occlusal plane during and after orthodontic treatment.
(4) We have an obligation that we cant ignore something like this.” However, Katz later appeared to accept Spicer’s apology.
(5) I care, but I cant do enough so I’ll forget I care.
(6) Speaking a week after his youngest brother, Jaffar, 17 , was killed storming a Syrian government checkpoint, Deghayes said: “I cant afford to leave jihad and the journey to jannah [paradise].” Jaffar is the youngest known Briton to have died during the gruesome three-year conflict.
(7) The present study evaluated the ability of clofibrate to sensitize in situ a mouse carcinoma (CaNT) to radiation.
(8) October 1, 2013 Mark Knoller (@markknoller) The @ONDCP , the WH Office Office of Drug Policy says "we're sorry" but it cant respond to tweets and replies due to the shutdown.
(9) When I see footage of her fencing I cant believe what I see,” says Pinkhasov, a Russian immigrant who fenced himself both in the Soviet Union and in the US.
(10) Nicotinamide increased the radiation sensitivity of CaNT tumours under all three different oxygen concentrations tested (21, 95 and 100% oxygen).
(11) 1.43pm BST Your comments Paddyde 26 June 2014 12:24pm So Syngenta applies to have UK government ecotox experts review the data and make a judgment and the general opinion in the comments section is: " We cant let the scientists review the data and come to an informed opinion because it might not agree with ours.
(12) There are always compromises, and that nagging voice says ‘I cant do enough, so I may as well not try.’ Reading Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s response to Vivienne Westwood in the Guardian, ‘ Living ethically isn’t cheap, Vivienne ’, made my inner voice rear its ugly head again – she finishes with the words ‘people don’t seem to care … or don’t have the energy to care.
(13) The levels of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in the transplantable CaNT murine tumor grown in CBA mice at various times following 5, 10, and 15 Gy X rays (100 kVp) were increased within 45 min.
(14) Jonathan Franzen on his misanthropic reputation: 'We live in a world of cant' Read more While the novelist blamed himself for the incident, he admitted he also blamed Winfrey.
(15) What you get instead is the kind of cant served up by David Cameron at last year’s Conservative conference: “It’s not the government that creates jobs.
(16) #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Ofir talking about the courage he heard in his sons voice in the dispatch tape when he called to report he'd been kidnapped #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Ofir Shaer: What courage for someone who was not yet even 17 #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Ofir: I never pictured you'd become a hero of #Israel while still just a teen #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Gil-ad Shaers mother: I sit in your room and cant accept that our worst nightmare came true #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 2.08pm BST Israel claims its aerial bombardment of Gaza in the wake of the discovery of the bodies of the abducted teenagers was aimed at prevent further kidnappings, my colleague Matthew Weaver writes.
(17) He talked about its special, extra-white glass and how the canted surfaces would reflect the sky and produce "a nice light presence".
(18) Yen Manager: for choice we want lower libors...let the [Money Market] guys know pls Yen Trader 2: sure i am setting today as [Yen Trader 1] and cash guy off [Primary Submitter] Yen Manager: great set it nice and low Yen Trader 2: 1.02 in 6m or lower Yen Manager: yeh lower Yen Trader 2: 1.01 then cant really go much lower than that Yen Manager: ok Yen Trader 2: u care for 1m and 3m too[?]
(19) Another wrote: "I am backing Gatwick for a second runway but if u cant handle passenger influx with one runway, how will u handle 2??"
(20) Changes in the levels of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6P-DH) activity, versus tumour volume were measured in vivo under normoxic conditions in the CaNT tumours grown in CBA mice.
Language
Definition:
(n.) Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.
(n.) The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality.
(n.) The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.
(n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
(n.) The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.
(n.) The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
(n.) The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.
(n.) A race, as distinguished by its speech.
(v. t.) To communicate by language; to express in language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
(2) The original sample included 1200 high school males within each of 30 language and cultural communities.
(3) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
(4) Surrounding intact ipsilateral structures are more important for the recovery of some of the language functions, such as motor output and phonemic assembly, than homologous contralateral structures.
(5) This review focused on the methods used to identify language impairment in specifically language-impaired subjects participating in 72 research studies that were described in four journals from 1983 to 1988.
(6) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(7) Groups were similar with respect to age, sex, school experience, family income, housing, primary language spoken, and nonverbal intelligence.
(8) And that ancient Basque cultural gem – the mysterious language with its odd Xs, Ks and Ts – will be honoured at every turn in a city where it was forbidden by Franco.
(9) Language and discussion develop the intellect, she argues.
(10) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
(11) To do so degrades the language of war and aids the terrorist enemy.
(12) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
(13) This paper reviews the epidemiologic studies of petroleum workers published in the English language, focusing on research pertaining to the petroleum industry, rather than the broader petrochemical industry.
(14) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(15) The researchers' own knowledge of street language and drug behavior has enabled them to capture information that would escape most observers and even some participants.
(16) At the House Ear Institute, speech and language assessments are a regular part of the evaluation protocol for the cochlear implant clinical trials in children.
(17) The Rio+ 20 Earth summit could collapse after countries failed to agree on acceptable language just two weeks before 120 world leaders arrive at the biggest UN summit ever organised, WWF warned on Wednesday.
(18) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
(19) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(20) The European commission has three official "procedural languages": German, French and English.