(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.
(a.) Withdraw from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
(a.) Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.
(a.) Separate; distinct.
(a.) Something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not revealed, or not to be revealed.
(a.) A thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery.
(a.) The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs.
(v. t.) To keep secret.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the absence of atrial dilatation there was minimal stimulus for ANF secretion.
(2) We have previously shown that serotonin is present in secretory granules of frog adrenochromaffin cells; concurrently, we have demonstrated that serotonin is a potent stimulator of corticosterone and aldosterone secretion by adrenocortical cells.
(3) We have investigated a physiological role of endogenous insulin on exocrine pancreatic secretion stimulated by a liquid meal as well as exogenous secretin and cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8) in conscious rats.
(4) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(5) The present study was therefore carried out to specify further which type of adrenoceptor is involved in lithium-induced hyperglycaemia and inhibition of insulin secretion.
(6) Significant increases in acid secretion were observed without changes in cyclic nucleotides.
(7) In summary, GABAergic tone did not effect basal acid secretion in anesthetized rats.
(8) The effects of glucagon-induced insulin secretion upon this lipid regulation are discussed that may resolve conflicting reports in the literature are resolved.
(9) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(10) This suggests that a physiological mechanism exists which can increase the barrier pressure to gastrooesophageal reflux during periods of active secretion of the stomach, as occurs in digestion.
(11) "They wanted to pass it almost like a secret negotiation," she said.
(12) The secretion of GH as measured by increased plasma level, in response to oral administration of 500 mg L-dopa or 30 min-infusion of arginine, was not modified by prior intravenous administration of 200 micrograms GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
(13) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
(14) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
(15) These results provide evidence that trait selection can change gonadotrophin receptor concentration and the dynamics of hormone secretion during the oestrous cycle of the mouse.
(16) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
(17) The sites of action for somatostatin and epinephrine to inhibit insulin secretion have been reported to be exclusively in the exocytotic pathway.
(18) Since intracellular Ca2+ seems to play a role in stimulus-secretion coupling and ion movements, several aspects of Ca2+ homeostasis have been investigated in CF.
(19) The Metoclopramide-induced secretion of prolactin and aldosterone was blunted in 6 patients pretreated with 200 mg ibopamine.
(20) On the basis of obtained data on the uniformity of chemical compounds of the secretion of glands belonging to different groups their common origin has been suggested.