CANT
\kˈant], \kˈant], \k_ˈa_n_t]\
Definitions of CANT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
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stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
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heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
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insincere talk about religion or morals
By Princeton University
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a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
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stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
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heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
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insincere talk about religion or morals
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A corner; angle; niche.
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An outer or external angle.
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An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
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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.
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A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
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A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
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A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
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To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
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To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
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To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
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An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
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The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.
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The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
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Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
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Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
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To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
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To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
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To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
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A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.
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to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
By Oddity Software
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A corner; angle; niche.
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An outer or external angle.
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An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
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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.
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A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
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A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
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A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
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To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
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To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
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To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
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An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
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The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.
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The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
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Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
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Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
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To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
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To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
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To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
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A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.
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to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
By Noah Webster.
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The words and phrases used by a certain profession, party, sect, etc.; the use of certain phrases and forms of speech without sincerity, especially the insincere use of sacred words; a slope; an inclination.
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To give a tilt or slant to.
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To speak in a whining voice, or with an assumed or hypocritical tone; make whining pretensions to goodness; to lean.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To talk in an affectedly solemn or hypocritical way.
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A hypocritical or affected style of speech: the language peculiar to a sect: odd or peculiar talk of any kind.
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(orig.) An edge or corner: an inclination from the level: a toss or jerk.
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To turn on the edge or corner: to tilt or toss suddenly.
By Daniel Lyons
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An inclination from the level; a toss.
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Hypocritical language, or that peculiar to a sect.
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To speak with a whine, or hypocritically.
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To tilt or incline.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An inclination or tipping; a slant.
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To talk with affected religiousness; speak in a hypocritical way.
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Formal, ostentatious, religious talk.
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Any technical or professional phraseology.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Welsh] An angle;—an inclination from a horizontal line;—a push, or other impulse, with a sudden jerk.
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n. [Latin] An affected mode of speaking;—a word or phrase hackneyed or peculiar;—whining pretensions;—the jargon of gypsies and thieves.
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