Cant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

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

2. isim A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
3. isim A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
4. isim Empty, hypocritical talk.

   “He is too well grounded for all your philoſophical Cant to hurt.”

5. isim Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
6. isim 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.
7. isim A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.

   “[…]but numbers of these tenants or their descendants are now offering to sell their leases by cant,”

8. fiil To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.

   “The Doctor here, I will proceed with the learned. / VVhen he diſcourſeth of diſſection, / Or any point of Anatomy: that hee tells you, / Of Vena caua, and of vena porta, / The Meſeraicks, and the Meſenterium. / VVhat does he elſe but cant? […] / Does he not cant? VVho here does vnderſtand him?”

9. fiil To speak in set phrases.
10. fiil To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.

    “[I]f he proue not yet / The cunningſt, ranckeſt Rogue that euer Canted, / Ile neuer ſee man againe, […]”

11. fiil Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
12. fiil To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.

    “[…]labouring with all their might for preventing the bishops from letting their revenues at a moderate half value[…] at the very instant, when they were every where canting their own land upon short leases, and sacrificing their oldest tenants for a penny an acre advance.”

13. isim Side, edge, corner, niche.

    “under the cant of a hill”

14. isim Slope, the angle at which something is set.

    “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.”

15. isim A corner (of a building).
16. isim An outer or external angle.
17. isim An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
18. isim A movement or throw that overturns something.
19. isim A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.

    “to give a ball a cant”

20. isim A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
21. isim A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
22. isim A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
23. isim An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
24. fiil To set (something) at an angle; to tilt.

    “to cant a cask”

25. fiil To give a sudden turn or new direction to.

    “to cant round a stick of timber”

26. fiil To bevel an edge or corner.
27. fiil To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
28. fiil To divide or parcel out.
29. isim A parcel, a division.
30. sıfat Lively, lusty.