What does Cannot mean?
Definitions for Cannot
ˈkæn ɒt, kæˈnɒt, kə-can·not
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cannotcontraction
can not ( = am/is/are unable to); contracted into can't
I cannot open the window. It is stuck.
cannotcontraction
am/are/is forbidden, not permitted to
You cannot enter the hall without a ticket.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Cannot
A word compounded of can and not.
I cannot but believe many a child can tell twenty, long before he has any idea of infinity at all. John Locke.
Wikipedia
cannot
The English modal verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality (properties such as possibility, obligation, etc.). They can be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participle or infinitive forms) and by their neutralization (that they do not take the ending -(e)s in the third-person singular). The principal English modal verbs are can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, and must. Certain other verbs are sometimes classed as modals; these include ought, had better, and (in certain uses) dare and need. Verbs which share only some of the characteristics of the principal modals are sometimes called "quasi-modals", "semi-modals", or "pseudo-modals".
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cannot
Cannot is a contraction of two words, "can" and "not." It is used to express the inability or lack of ability to do something or to indicate that something is prohibited or impossible.
Webster Dictionary
Cannot
am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two
Etymology: [Can to be able + -not.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Cannot
kan′ot, v.i. to be unable. [Can and Not.]
Anagrams for Cannot »
Canton
canton
noncat
conant
nonact
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Cannot in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Cannot in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of Cannot in a Sentence
We are very short-staffed in the hospitals, the medical staff in the city cannot get to the hospitals because of the on-going fighting.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly:
No child should ever have to endure what this man did to his child. It appears this man has no ability to control his rage, parents have the right to discipline their children but cannot go overboard, which happened in this case.
Luxembourg Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna:
The analysis of matters relating to international taxation and tax rulings ... cannot be limited to one country's regulatory framework and practice.
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
Once [the animals become] too big and dangerous for these activities, these lions are then killed for their bones, which are exported to Asia for traditional medicines, or [the lions are] sold to be killed by trophy hunters, largely from the United States, in canned hunts in which hand-reared lions are shot in a fenced area from which they cannot escape.
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