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▸ verb: (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
▸ verb: (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
▸ verb: (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) Used to form requests, typically polite.
▸ verb: (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To know.
▸ verb: (India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed).
▸ noun: A more or less cylindrical and often metal container or vessel.
▸ noun: A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
▸ noun: (archaic) A chamber pot.
▸ noun: (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
▸ noun: (US, slang) Buttocks.
▸ noun: (slang) Jail or prison.
▸ noun: (slang, in the plural) Headphones.
▸ noun: (archaic) A drinking cup.
▸ noun: (nautical) A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
▸ noun: A chimney pot.
▸ noun: (slang, in the plural) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
▸ noun: (US, slang) An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
▸ noun: A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
▸ noun: (vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.
▸ verb: (transitive) To seal in a can.
▸ verb: (transitive) To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
▸ verb: (transitive) To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To shut up.
▸ verb: (US, euphemistic, transitive) To fire or dismiss an employee.
▸ verb: (golf, slang, transitive) To hole the ball.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
▸ noun: The River Can, a river in Essex, England, that joins the River Chelmer in Chelmsford.
▸ noun: (inorganic chemistry, uncountable) ceric ammonium nitrate
▸ noun: (initialism) The Andean Community of Nations.
▸ noun: Alternative spelling of Can.
▸ noun: (computing, manufacturing, automotive) Abbreviation of Controller Area Network., ISO standards 11898, 11898-1, 11898-2, and its predecessor standards.
▸ noun: (computing, manufacturing, automotive, countable) Abbreviation of controller area network.
▸ noun: (computing, countable) Initialism of campus area network.
▸ noun: (South Africa, countable) Acronym of community action network.
▸ noun: Initialism of consistent and asymptotically normal, a statistic estimator Tₙ(X₁, X₂, ..., Xₙ) is CAN (consistent and asymptotically normal) if ....
▸ noun: (Australia, countable) Acronym of court attendance notice.
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