cant

cant

1. jargon

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cant

särmä, viiste, kaltevuus, vinous, viistotus, terävä reuna, levennys, pulina, puhe, keskustelu, hurskastelu, tekopyhyys, penger, piennar, kallistuma, kallistus, penkka, mäki, rinne, törmä, siirtää, viedä, kallistua, viettää.

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Englannin sanakirja

cant (englanti > suomi)

1. slangi, jargon

2. hurskastelu, höpöpuhe

3. mankuminen

4. kaltevuus

5. kallistaa

cant englanniksi

1. puhekieltä An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.

He had the look of a prince, but the cant of a fishmonger.

2. 1836, Three discourses preached before the Congregational Society in Watertown, http://books.google.ru/books?id=GflLAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22cant%22%20phrase&pg=PA65v=onepage&q=%22cant%22%20phrase&f=false page 65

I am aware that the phrase free inquiry has become too much a cant phrase soiled by the handling of the ignorant and the reckless by those who fall into the mistake of supposing that religion has its root in the understanding and by those who can see just far enough to doubt and no further.

3. puhekieltä A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.

4. Shelta.

5. puhekieltä empty Empty, hypocritical talk.

People claim to care about the poor of Africa, but it is largely cant.

6. 1749, w:Henry Fielding|Henry Fielding, s:The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling|The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book IV ch iv

He is too well grounded for all your philosophical cant to hurt.

7. 1759-1770, :w:Laurence Sterne|Laurence Sterne, :w:The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman|The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

8. puhekieltä whining Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.

9. puhekieltä A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.

10. puhekieltä A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.

11. Jonathan Swift

To sell their leases by cant.

12. puhekieltä To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.

13. Ben Jonson

The doctor here, / When he discourseth of dissection, / Of vena cava and of vena porta, / The meseraeum and the mesentericum, / What does he else but cant?

14. Bishop Sanderson

that uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language, if I may so call it

15. puhekieltä To speak in set phrases.

16. puhekieltä To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.

17. Beaumont and Fletcher

the rankest rogue that ever canted

18. puhekieltä Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.

19. puhekieltä To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.

(rfquotek)

20. puhekieltä side Side, edge, corner, niche.

(ux)

The first and principal person in the temple was Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant.

21. slope, the angle at which something is set.

22. (RQ:Stevenson Treasure)

Owing to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water, and from my perch on the cross-trees I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay.

23. A corner (of a building).

24. An outer or external angle.

25. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.

26. A movement or throw that overturns something.

27. 1830, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia, volume 3, http://books.google.ru/books?id=lD0gAQAAMAAJ&dq=sudden%20cant&pg=PA621v=onepage&q=sudden%20cant&f=false page 621

It is not only of great service in keeping the boat in her due position on the sea, but also in creating a tendency immediately to recover from any sudden cant, or lurch, from a heavy wave; and it is besides beneficial in diminishing the violence of beating against the sides of the vessel which she may go to relieve.

28. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give.

to give a ball a cant

29. puhekieltä A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.

30. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.

31. puhekieltä A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.

32. puhekieltä To set (something) at an angle.

to cant a cask; to cant a ship

33. puhekieltä To give a sudden turn or new direction to.

to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football

34. puhekieltä To bevel an edge or corner.

35. puhekieltä To overturn so that the contents are empty emptied.

36. puhekieltä To divide or parcel out.

37. puhekieltä lively, lusty.

38. song

39. (apocopic form of)

40. hundred

41. century

42. hoop

43. rim

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