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What's The Definition Of Cant?
[n] two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
[n] stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition [n] insincere talk about religion or morals [n] a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [n] 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 [adj] having the slant of a bevel; "a bevel edge"; "a cant buttress" [v] heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting" Synonyms | Synonyms for Cant: argot | bank | bevel | bevel | beveled | buzzword | camber | cant over | chamfer | inclined | jargon | lingo | patois | pious platitude | pitch | slang | slant | tilt | vernacular Related Terms | Find terms related to Cant: about ship | Aesopian language | affectation | affectedness | alert | angle | angularity | animate | animated | apex | argot | ascend | babble | Babel | back and fill | bank | be hypocritical | bear away | bear off | bear to starboard | beat | beat about | bend | bifurcation | bight | blandish | box off | break | bring about | bring round | cant round | careen | cast | cast about | change course | change the heading | chevron | cipher | climb | code | coin | colloquialize | come about | corner | crank | crook | crotchet | cryptogram | decline | deflection | descend | dialect | diction | dictionary | dip | dogleg | double a point | double Dutch | drop | elbow | ell | empty gesture | fall | fall away | fall off | false piety | falseness | fetch about | fork | furcation | garble | gay | gibberish | gift of tongues | give lip service | give mouth honor | glossolalia | go about | go downhill | go uphill | gobbledygook | goody-goodiness | grade | Greek | gybe | heave round | heel | hook | humbug | hypocrisy | hypocriticalness | idiom | inclination | incline | inflection | insincerity | jargon | jargonize | jibe | jibe all standing | jumble | keel | keen | knee | L | language | lay down | lean | leaning | leaning tower | lexicon | lie along | lingo | lip service | list | mealymouthedness | miss stays | mouth | mouthing | mumbo jumbo | mummery | noise | nook | oiliness | ostentatious devotion | palaver | patois | patter | Pecksniffery | pharisaicalness | pharisaism | phraseology | pidgin | pietism | pietisticalness | piety | piousness | pitch | play the hypocrite | ply | point | pretension | put about | put back | quoin | rake | recline | reek of piety | religionism | religiosity | render lip service | retreat | rise | round a point | sanctimoniousness | sanctimony | scatology | scramble | secret language | self-righteousness | sham | sheer | shelve | shift | shop | sidle | slang | slant | slew | slope | snivel | snuffle | snuffling | soft soap | soft-soap | speak | speech | spirited | sprightly | swag | sway | sweet talk | sweet-talk | swerve | swing round | swing the stern | taboo language | tack | talk | Tartuffery | Tartuffism | throw about | tilt | tip | tokenism | tower of Pisa | turn | turn back | unction | unctuousness | uprise | use language | veer | vernacular | vertex | vivacious | vocabulary | vulgar language | wear | wear ship | wind | yaw | zag | zig | zigzag See Also | cock | edge | hokum | incline | meaninglessness | move | nonsense | nonsensicality | non-standard speech | rhyming slang | side | slope | splay | talk | talking Cant In Webster's Dictionary \Cant\, n. [OF., edge, angle, prof. from L. canthus the
iron ring round a carriage wheel, a wheel, Gr. ? the corner
of the eye, the felly of a wheel; cf. W. cant the stake or
tire of a wheel. Cf. {Canthus}, {Canton}, {Cantle}.]
1. A corner; angle; niche. [Obs.]
The first and principal person in the temple was
Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant.
--B. Jonson.
2. An outer or external angle.
3. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope
or bevel; a titl. --Totten.
4. 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.
5. (Coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of
a cask. --Knight.
6. (Mech.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
--Knight.
7. (Naut.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to
support the bulkheads.
{Cant frames}, {Cant timbers} (Naut.), timber at the two ends
of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.
\Cant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Canted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Canting}.] 1. To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship. 2. To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football. 3. To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt. \Cant\, n. [Prob. from OF. cant, F. chant, singing, in allusion to the singing or whining tine of voice used by beggars, fr. L. cantus. See {Chant}.] 1. An affected, singsong mode of speaking. 2. The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. --Goldsmith. The cant of any profession. --Dryden. 3. The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy. They shall hear no cant from me. --F. W. Robertson 4. Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars. \Cant\, a. Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar. To introduce and multiply cant words in the most ruinous corruption in any language. --Swift. \Cant\, v. i. 1. To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone. 2. To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic. The rankest rogue that ever canted. --Beau. & Fl. 3. To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning. The doctor here, When he discourseth of dissection, Of vena cava and of vena porta, The meser[ae]um and the mesentericum, What does he else but cant. --B. Jonson That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language, if I may so call it. --Bp. Sanderson. \Cant\, n. [Prob. from OF. cant, equiv. to L. quantum; cf. F. encan, fr. L. in quantum, i.e. ``for how much?''] A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction. ``To sell their leases by cant.'' --Swift. \Cant\, v. t. to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction. [Archaic] --Swift. |
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