Dictionary Entry
cant
cant is a 4-letter English word with 27 senses as noun, transitive verb, adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A corner; angle; niche. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 27 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A corner; angle; niche.
- 2noun
An outer or external angle.
- 3noun
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- 6noun
A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
- 7noun
A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- 8transitive verb
To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
- 9transitive verb
To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
- 10transitive verb
To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
- 11noun
An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
- 12noun
The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.
- 13noun
The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
- 14noun
Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
- 15adjective
Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
- 16intransitive verb
To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
- 17intransitive verb
To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
- 18intransitive verb
To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
- 19noun
A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.
- 20transitive verb
to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
- 21
A colloquial contraction for can not.
- 22noun
two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
- 23noun
stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
Synonyms
- 24noun
insincere talk about religion or morals
- 25noun
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
"they don't speak our lingo"
- 26noun
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
- 27verb
heel over
"The tower is tilting"
"The ceiling is slanting"
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