Word Finder - cans

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A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.

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A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).

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A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.

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A chamber pot, now a toilet or lavatory.

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Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.

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Buttocks.

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Jail or prison.

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Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.

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(in the plural) Headphones.

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A drinking cup.

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A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark

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A chimney pot.

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(in the plural) an E-meter used in Scientology auditing.

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To seal in a can.

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They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists.

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To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.

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They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.

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To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).

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He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.

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To shut up.

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Can your gob.

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To fire or dismiss an employee.

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The boss canned him for speaking out.

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To hole the ball.

Cans and boxes lined the shelves.

In the latter method from eight to fifteen cans are placed behind the feed rollers, and all the slivers from these cans are united before they emerge from the machine.

Then I washed them down with 2 cans of coke, and ate some jelly beans.

There was no food in the cottage, so she turned a small log into cans of soup.

Resigned to the inquisition, he settled down in his chair with two cans of beer and a piece of apple pie, devouring the pie with a combination of guilt and gusto.

He's now fully laden with cans of beer.

She stepped back to avoid his hand and tripped over one of the paint cans, falling and sliding across the floor.

I can still hear Henry Caldwell's irate voice coming down my cans, using some very choice expletives!

Among the manufactures are brass and copper work, wire for electrical uses, foundry and machine-shop products, locomotives, knit goods, tin cans and canned goods (especially vegetables).

This is due to (a) the dirty condition of the cows' udders, (b) the imperfect cleansing of the cans and of the hands of the milkers.

It is, therefore, further recommended (a) that the milk be rapidly cooled or chilled, as the lower the temperature the less do the bacteria multiply, (b) that contamination during railway transit be avoided by dustproof locked milk cans.

An article on monastic arrangements would be incomplete without some account of the convents of the Mendicant or Preaching Friars, including the Black Friars or Domini cans, the Grey or Franciscans, the White or Carmelites, Y Friars.

I rode shotgun in an ancient Ford with a flag of Nigeria painted on the dashboard while Howie hung over the seat amid a month's supply of fast food wrappers and not a few empty beer cans.

Some of these products are even pasteurized, pressurized and served as keg beer or even bottled or put in cans.

English fans stoned and threw beer cans at portuguese fans in Gelsenkirchen (witnessed by a portuguese TV crew ).

If you know it is going to rain leave your watering cans outside to catch the water.

The carbon cathode is added, and the rod inserted, pushing the paper against the walls of the cans.

A brown and green chameleon made from recycled cans.

They look like brightly colored drinks cans; many do not detonate on impact.

The two corpses were then drenched in gasoline from the jerry cans.

If all the aluminum drinks cans sold in the UK were recycled there would be 14 million fewer dustbins of waste each year.

As steel cans are attracted to a magnet they can easily be recovered in large volumes from domestic waste using large electromagnets.

These were used, along with 100 octane gasoline cans filled with sand, to build gun emplacements.

This is a large rotating magnet that hangs above the cans and tins.

Grocery lists are longer than pot noodles & cans of lager.

Super 8 and 16mm reels and cans are normally available off-the-shelf.

Do not pollute country streams with waste food, empty cans or bottles.

Part B growing radishes in film cans - Student sheet 9 Growing seedlings.

The energy saved from recycling one can could run a TV for three hours; Usually aluminum cans are recycled back into drinks cans.

Bush told a reporter, " Labels are for cans.

We've also conserved a number of cans containing cod roe.

The bags of cans for each group are individually fed through a magnetic separator which will extract any rogue steel cans.

The steep muddy roads are lined with melting ice, empty beer cans and old plastic sledges.

This is where we found a sleeping bag, cloth and beer bottles and cans.

My group chose to buy alphabet spaghetti, pasta sauce and cans of coke.

Limit your weekly intake of tuna to two tuna steaks or four medium-sized cans of tuna.

What to do Put three cans of golden syrup in the white bucket.

Part B Growing radishes in film cans - Student sheet 9 Growing seedlings.

Bush told a reporter, Labels are for cans.

Please rinse all food cans before placing them in the banks.

For later scenes, the tailors of the Mellah came up trumps with suits of armor made from sardine cans.

This can be arduous as it involves carrying plastic jerry cans full of seawater up from the seashore at high tide.

Viper slip-on race cans have been specially developed to let riders obtain their bike 's maximum power and torque in style.

The Jumbo is set to feature engines painted as beer cans and giant ' smiley ' faces on the nose cone and tail.

Please do not squash the cans flat -- they get stuck in our baling machine and will not bale properly !

Stir briefly until softened then add 4 x 300g cans drained butter beans and 2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary and cook until heated through.

Obviously, outlawing Coke cans and tampon applicators is the next step in protecting America 's youth from the scourge of pot.

That way I keep hydrated and do n't get tempted to indulge in cans of coke.

You cannot open tin cans with cars, or eat computers.

Under half the UK 's drinks cans are tin-plated steel and stick to a magnet.