can

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj. 助词
/ˈkæn/|[ˈkʰæn]|/ˈkan/|[ˈkʰan]    /ˈkæn/|[ˈkʰæn]|/ˈkæːn/|[ˈkʰæːn]|/ˈkeə̯n/|[ˈkʰeə̯n]|/ˈkɛə̯n/|[ˈkʰɛə̯n]|/ˈkeːn/|[ˈkʰeːn]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.
    — I keep a can of fuel for emergencies.
  2. A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.; A sealed metal container, cylindrical or cuboid in form, typically used to store preserved foods.
    — Soup in a can lasts for years.
  3. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
  4. A chamber pot. archaic
  5. A chamber pot.; a toilet or lavatory. US,archaic,slang
    — Shit or get off the can.
  6. Buttocks. Canada,US,childish,slang,vulgar
  7. The breasts of a woman. Canada,US,slang,vulgar
  8. Jail or prison. slang
    — Bob’s in the can. He won’t be back for a few years.
  9. Headphones. in-plural,slang
  10. A drinking cup. archaic
    — VVhen the vulgar ſort / Sit on their Ale-bench, vvith their cups and kannes, / Matters of ſtate be not their common talke, / Nor pure religion by their lips prophande.
  11. A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
  12. A chimney pot.
  13. An E-meter used in Scientology auditing. in-plural,slang
  14. An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana. US,slang
    — […] prosecution for selling and giving away marijuana, the evidence clearly constituted substantial proof that a package purchased by defendant contained marijuana where he requested "four cans" of marijuana to be delivered to himself and […]
  15. A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
动词 v.
  1. To seal in a can. transitive
    — They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists.
  2. To know how to. auxiliary,defective
    — She can speak English, French, and German.
  3. To be able to. auxiliary,defective
    — Can you remember your fifth birthday?
  4. To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can. transitive
    — They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
  5. May; to be permitted or enabled to. auxiliary,defective,informal,modal
    — You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework.
  6. To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.). transitive
    — He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
  7. To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to. auxiliary,defective,modal
    — Can it be Friday already?
  8. To shut up. slang,transitive
    — Can your gob.
  9. Used to form requests, typically polite. auxiliary,defective,informal,modal
    — Can you please come over here?
  10. To fire or dismiss an employee. US,euphemistic,transitive
    — The boss canned him for speaking out.
  11. To know. obsolete,transitive
    — ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman I can rimes of Robin Hood.
  12. To hole the ball. slang,transitive
    — I thought I had canned it, but it just missed, and I tapped in the second one for a par.
  13. To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can India,nonstandard,proscribed
    — Importance of Identifying Leaf: Identify Plants: If we can able to identify leaf, we can easily able to identify plants.
  14. To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover. transitive
  15. To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context. Manglish,Singlish,auxiliary,intransitive
    — Can anot?
    You good? Need help?
  16. To be fine or acceptable; to be possible; (with liao or already) to be enough. Often used in conjunction with a variety of clause-final particles, e.g., lah, meh or one, to express different attitudes towards the subject matter. Manglish,Singlish,intransitive
    — Can liao, don’t need to use so much glue.
    That’s enough glue already.
感叹词 intj.
  1. OK, sure; indicates approval or acknowledgment. Manglish,Singlish
  2. Used to convey reassurance. Manglish,Singlish
助词
  1. OK(?); used at the end of a question when seeking approval or acknowledgment. Manglish,Singlish,interrogative
    — I cut this wire, can?
    I’ll cut this wire, OK?

词形变化

can present,singular,third-person able participle,present,suppletive could past couth obsolete,participle,past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template - infinitive can first-person,present,singular could first-person,past,singular can present,second-person,singular canst archaic,present,second-person,singular cannest archaic,present,second-person,singular could past,second-person,singular couldst archaic,past,second-person,singular couldest archaic,past,second-person,singular could'st archaic,past,second-person,singular can present,singular,third-person canneth archaic,present,rare,singular,third-person could past,singular,third-person can plural,present could past,plural can present,subjunctive could past,subjunctive can archaic,imperative,present - imperative,past able participle,present canning archaic,participle,present could dialectal,participle,past canne alternative,obsolete kin alternative,pronunciation-spelling c' alternative,pronunciation-spelling canne alternative,obsolete kin alternative,pronunciation-spelling c' alternative,pronunciation-spelling canne alternative,obsolete kin alternative,pronunciation-spelling c' alternative,pronunciation-spelling cans plural cans present,singular,third-person canning participle,present canned participle,past canned past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template can infinitive can first-person,present,singular canned first-person,past,singular can present,second-person,singular canned past,second-person,singular cans present,singular,third-person canned past,singular,third-person can plural,present canned past,plural can present,subjunctive canned past,subjunctive can imperative,present - imperative,past canning participle,present canned participle,past

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti
Proto-Germanic *kunnaną
Proto-West Germanic *kunnan
Old English cunnan
Middle English can
English can
From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence also know). Doublet of con. See also: canny, cunning.
词源 2
From Middle English canne, from Old English canne (“glass, container, cup, jar”), from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“can, tankard, mug, cup”).
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