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can English

Meaning can meaning

What does can mean?
Definitions in simple English

can Verb

— If someone can do something, they are able to do it. Most birds can fly. Can you speak English? I can't see it. It's too small. "Can you come?" "Yes, I think I can." This is a service that anyone can easily afford. — If someone can do something, they are allowed to do it. You can't smoke here. Can I go now? — You use can to ask somebody to do something (if you know the person well). Can you open the door for me, please? Can I have the salt, please? — If something can happen, it is possible. It's so small that it can't be seen. There can't be any difference. Can the plan work? That can't be right. Imagine how bad it can get. — If someone tells you something can't happen, they think it's not a good idea. You just can't keep smoking. You can't think things are going to get better. — If something can happen, it happens sometimes. I can get really busy here on weekends. Her classes can be really interesting or really boring.

can Verb

— If someone cans something, they put in a can or jar to keep for a long time. We canned the peas for the winter. — If someone cans something, they stop working on it. The idea was canned. — If someone gets canned they have lost their job. — If you tell someone to can it, you want them to stop talking. Can it, would you? I'm trying to watch TV.

can Noun

— A can is a metal container, usually for holding food or drink. I drink cola from a can. hoops come in a can.

can

— verb (= tin) preserve in a can or tin tinned foods are not very tasty — noun airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc — verb (= fire, terminate) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position The boss fired his secretary today The company terminated 25% of its workers — noun a buoy with a round bottom and conical top — noun the quantity contained in a can — noun (= toilet) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination — noun (= toilet) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets — noun (= butt, fanny) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on he deserves a good kick in the butt are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Synonyms can synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as can?

can English » English

tin able may be able to able to be able tin can toilet lavatory possible lav john jar pot jug container bathroom restroom privy posterior loo derriere buttocks buns box backside washroom sack rear bottom behind tush tooshie tail end tail stern seat rump rear end put up preserve prat nates keister hindquarters hind end fundament fanny could butt

CAN English » English

cancel customer access network controller area network cancellation cancel character Cancel previous data (ASCII character) Andean Community

Topics can topics

What do people use can to talk about?
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs

Agent-oriented modalities

  • ability, mental: English: 'Melissa can speak Dutch'.
    can
  • ability, physical: English: 'Hortense can swim the English Channel'.
    can
  • root possibility: it is possible for the agent to carry out the action of the main verb; i.e. s/he is able and external conditions allow it: 'You can get that kind of paper at Ulbrich's'.
    can
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Certainly, definitely
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Give permission
Work and occupation Work Method

Try, attempt
Person Sense, perceive See

Visible
Person Sense, perceive

Hear
Social behavior Law Punish

Imprison
Work and occupation Tool

Container
States Quantity Enough

Need
States Big Big area

Big container, volume
States Quality Good Decay

Preserve
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Agent-oriented modalities

Can
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Honorifics

  • What words are used in requests to show respect?
    may can
States Quantity

Enough
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Just, almost not
Language and thought Want Influence

Suggest
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Disgusted
Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Speak poorly
Daily life Fire

Fuel
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Steady, unsteady
Physical actions Move Travel

Way, route
Physical actions Move Pursue

Escape
States Quality Type, kind Compare

Same
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Impossible
Person Body functions

Breathe, breath
Person Sense, perceive

Sense of touch
Person Body condition

Tired
Person Healthy Disabled

Blind
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Notice
Language and thought Think Opinion Believe

Trust
Language and thought

Want
Language and thought Want Request

Agree to do something
Language and thought Want

Ask permission
Language and thought Want

Offer
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Obsessed
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Uninterested, bored
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sorry

Ashamed
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Answer
Language and thought Communication Say

Criticize
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Blame
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Laugh
Social behavior Social activity Music

Sing
Social behavior Behavior Good, moral Patient

Impatient
Work and occupation Work

Difficult, impossible
Work and occupation Work Difficult, impossible

Easy, possible
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with water
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Move quickly

Move slowly
Physical actions Move Not moving

Wait
States Quantity Enough

Lack
States Quality Good Decay

Garbage
States Time Relative time Before

After
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Agent-oriented modalities

Can't
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Unsure
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Markers of emphasis

Conjugation can conjugation

How do you conjugate can?

can · verb

Examples can examples

How do I use can in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I can't tell her now. It's not that simple anymore.
You can probably guess what happens though.
You'd be surprised what you can learn in a week.
Let me know if there is anything I can do.
I can't live without a TV.
When you can't do what you want, you do what you can.
I can't cut my nails and do the ironing at the same time!
We can travel through time. And we do at the remarkable rate of one second per second.
You can trust him to keep his word.
Can you ride a horse?
Can you tell wheat from barley?
Sometimes he can be a strange guy.
I can only wonder if this is the same for everyone else.
I can't live that kind of life.
Sometimes I can't help showing emotions.
One can always find time.
I am a flawed person, but these are flaws that can easily be fixed.
You can do it.
One can't expect everything from schools.
I don't like it when mathematicians who know much more than I do can't express themselves explicitly.
I don't like it when mathematicians who know much more than I do can't express themselves clearly.
Can it be phrased in another way?
I found a solution, but I found it so fast that it can't be the right solution.

Movie subtitles

What the. How can this place be your territory?
How can that lady be my mom? how can that lady be my mom!
With that money, she can buy all the milk in the world and raise 1000 children!
Later, I probably can raise babies well.
With just this one shirt, I can feed 5 people in my family.
When I look at it we can't praise you enough!
I'm sorry but can I hold your baby?
Can I feed him for some milk too?
I can take the bus.
Let's go. I can't give you my heart, but I can give you food.
She probably has her reasons. Who can abandon their own flesh and blood?
Things can happen, right?
Do you think you can destroy it with just that power?
So, can you please help me?
Such a convenient world. What can you do to.
I can't allow a meaningless fight to go on!
Will you lend me your strength so that others can get by without losing their loved ones?
But. I can't go back. I can't return.
With this. we can finally sweep away the parasites who were sucking Prince Clovis dry.
We can't just take their word for it!
Garbage like you should just die where no one can. let's break this up.
It can't be picked up on a detector.
There's an emergency call button she can press.
It looks like he can see me.
There can be only one messiah.
Kids can get pretty much anything they want in the yard, as long as they can afford it.
Well, I'll see what I can do.
The thing is, they can never stop the peanut butter trade.
They can't!
The demand is so crazy, I can barely keep up.
One week of catching, a kid can make more than two years worth of allowance.
Is it true that you have a magic ring that can make you invisible?
How many sandwiches can you and your friends eat?
We're pretty hungry. Can you do it?
Nick's always told us none of us can get involved with the peanut racket, and there's no way I'm going to betray Nick for a kiss on the cheek for a lousy seven seconds.
What makes you say that? Because I betrayed Nick, and he's the only guy who can stand up to freakin' Frankie.
I can't do this to Nick.
Hey, Mary, can I talk to you?

News and current affairs

So it can happen anywhere.
Few people can muster great enthusiasm for the UN.
In other words, liberty is not the right of individuals to define their own lives, but the right of the state to restrict individual freedom in the name of a security that only the state can define.
They can destroy but not create.
Terrorists and terrorism cannot be eliminated any more than we can rid the world of disease.
First, funds from different sources of finance are interchangeable to a certain degree: deficiency of funds for one component of total debt can be supplemented by surplus funds originally aimed at financing other components.
But neither improved competitiveness, nor reduction of total debt, can be achieved overnight.
Almost everyone agreed that the old paradigm of neoclassical economics was broken, but there was no agreement on what can replace it.
By inductive reasoning, if we know the cause and effects, we can infer the principles.
Using this macro-historical framework, we can see Japanese deflation, European debt, and even the Arab Spring as phases of systemic changes within complex structures that are interacting with one another in a new, multipolar global system.
Sustainability can be achieved only when the haves become willing to sacrifice for the have-nots.
Such a grand project can be achieved if the political will exists and asserts itself.
Viewed from the standpoint of food security and the wealth of rural areas, there is now an urgent need to revisit the CAP's main instruments so that a new policy formula can be introduced.
Metropolitan agriculture in a rapidly urbanizing world can provide high-quality produce on small amounts of land.
Even the United States abrogated indexation clauses in bond contracts during the Great Depression of the 1930's. So it can happen anywhere.
We can only hope that, in the end, the consequences of 2009 similarly prove to be far less dramatic than we now - intuitively and in our historical reflexes - feel them to be.
But, while putting the ECB in charge of banking supervision solves one problem, it creates another: can national authorities still be held responsible for saving banks that they no longer supervise?
Obama, Rudd, Zapatero, and other forward-thinking leaders can therefore make a huge difference by following up on their pledges at the G-8 and insisting that the aid really works.
This is Manicheanism of the left, and, like Manicheanism of the political right, it can distort reality to the point of becoming divorced from it.
International cooperation has increased markedly, in part because governments that cannot agree on many things can agree on the need to cooperate in this area.
Weak governments can be made stronger; governments that tolerate or support terrorism must be held accountable.
The Internet, one of the great inventions of the modern Western world, has shown itself to be a weapon that can be used to incite and train those who wish to cause harm to that world.
Helping to make societies in the Middle East and elsewhere more democratic might reduce the alienation that can lead to radicalism and worse, but this is easier said than done.
The benefits of some donor help can be remarkable.
African farmers know that they need fertilizer; they just can't afford it.
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