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Definition of 'cant'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) cant
insincere or hypocritical statements, esp. pious platitudes.

2.  cant
the private language of the underworld.

3.  cant
the words and phrases peculiar to a particular class, profession, etc.

4.  cant
whining or singsong speech.

5. (v.i.) cant
to talk piously or hypocritically.

6.  cant
to beg in a whining or singsong tone.

7. (n.) cant
a salient angle.

8.  cant
a sudden movement that tilts or overturns a thing.

9.  cant
a slanting or tilted position.

10.  cant
an oblique line or surface, as one formed by cutting off the corner of a square or cube.

11.  cant
a sudden pitch or toss.

12. (adj.) cant
oblique or slanting.

13. (v.t.) cant
to bevel; form an oblique surface upon.

14.  cant
to put in an oblique position; tilt; tip.

15.  cant
to throw with a sudden jerk.

16. (v.i.) cant
to take or have an inclined position; tilt; turn.

Etymology: (1325–75; ME: side, border < AF cant, OF chant)

Definition of 'cant'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) buzzword, cant
stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition

2. (noun) bank, cant, camber
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

3. (noun) slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
"they don't speak our lingo"

4. (noun) cant, pious platitude
insincere talk about religion or morals

5. (verb) bevel, cant, chamfer
two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees

6. (verb) cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch
heel over
"The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

Definition of 'cant'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) cant
of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar

2. (noun) cant
a corner; angle; niche

3. (noun) cant
an outer or external angle

4. (noun) cant
an inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl

5. (noun) cant
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

6. (noun) cant
a segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask

7. (noun) cant
a segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel

8. (noun) cant
a piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads

9. (noun) cant
an affected, singsong mode of speaking

10. (noun) cant
the idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation

11. (noun) cant
the use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy

12. (noun) cant
vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars

13. (noun) cant
a call for bidders at a public sale; an auction

14. (verb) cant
to incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship

15. (verb) cant
to give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football

16. (verb) cant
to cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt

17. (verb) cant
to speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone

18. (verb) cant
to make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic

19. (verb) cant
to use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning

20. (verb) cant
to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction

Definitions of 'cant'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. cant
affectation of thinking, believing, and feeling what one in his heart and reality does not, of which there are two degrees, insincere and sincere; insincere when one cants knowing it, and sincere when one cants without knowing it, the latter being of the darker and deeper dye.

Translation of 'cant'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: insincere talk politicians' cant.
Afrikaans: liegstories, huigeltaal,	Arabic: رِياء، نِفاق	Bulgarian: лицемерни приказки
Brazilian: conversa fiada	Czech: frázovitá řeč, tlach	German: das Geschwafel
Danish: tom snak; floskel	Greek: ανειλικρινή λόγια	Spanish: hipocresía
Estonian: sõnamulin	Farsi: کلام غیر صادقانه	Finnish: hurskastelu
French: langage hypocrite	Hebrew: דִּברֵי צְבִיעוּת	Hindi: कपट की बात
Croatian: licemjerne riječi, laskan	Hungarian: zsargon	Indonesian: bualan
Icelandic: hræsni	Italian: linguaggio ipocrita	Japanese: うわべだけの言葉
Korean: 위선적인 말	Lithuanian: veidmainiška kalba	Latvian: liekulība
Malay: helah	Dutch: schijnheilige praat	Norwegian: floskler, tomme fraser
Polish: frazesy	Persian: کلام غیر صادقانه	Pashto: د غیر صادقانه خبری
Portuguese: conversa fiada	Romanian: discuţie nesinceră/prefăc	Russian: лицемерие
Slovak: frázy	Slovenian: hinavščina	Serbian: prazna priča
Swedish: tomma fraser, floskler	Thai: การพูดอย่างไม่จริงใจ	Turkish: yapmacık konuşma
Taiwanese: 偽善言詞	Ukrainian: лицемірство	Urdu: منافقانہ ، ریاکارانہ گفتگ
Vietnamese: lời giả dối	Chinese: 伪善的谈话
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