cant

  • 41CANT 26 — Infobox Aircraft name=CANT 26 caption= type=Biplane trainer manufacturer=Cantiere Navali Triestino designer= first flight=1928 introduced= retired= status= primary user= more users= produced= number built=7 unit cost= variants with their own… …

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  • 42cant — can ou cant (kan) s. m. Terme de charpenterie. La face la moins large d une pièce de bois. ÉTYMOLOGIE    Le même que chant, côté, écrit à tort champ dans la locution de champ (voy. CHAMP, dans cette locution). cant 1. (kan) s. m. Terme de métier …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 43cant — English has two separate words cant. The older, ‘oblique angle’ [14], originally meant ‘edge’, and appears to have come via Middle Low German kant or Middle Dutch cant, both meaning ‘edge’ or ‘corner’, from Vulgar Latin *canto, a descendant of… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 44cant — I [[t]kænt[/t]] n. 1) insincere or hypocritical statements, esp. pious platitudes 2) ling. the private language of the underworld 3) ling. the words and phrases peculiar to a particular class, profession, etc 4) whining or singsong speech 5) to… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 45cant — English has two separate words cant. The older, ‘oblique angle’ [14], originally meant ‘edge’, and appears to have come via Middle Low German kant or Middle Dutch cant, both meaning ‘edge’ or ‘corner’, from Vulgar Latin *canto, a descendant of… …

    Word origins

  • 46cant — 1. n. & v. n. 1 insincere pious or moral talk. 2 ephemeral or fashionable catchwords. 3 language peculiar to a class, profession, sect, etc.; jargon. v.intr. use cant. Phrases and idioms: canting arms Heraldry arms containing an allusion to the… …

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  • 47CANT 7 — NOTOC Infobox Aircraft name=CANT 7 caption= type=Flying boat trainer manufacturer=CANT designer=Raffaele Conflenti first flight=1924 introduced= retired= status= primary user=SISA more users= produced= number built=34 variants with their own… …

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  • 48CANT 36 — NOTOC Infobox Aircraft name=CANT 36 caption= type=Military trainer aircraft manufacturer=CANT designer=Raffaele Conflenti first flight=1932 introduced= retired= status= primary user= more users= produced= number built=1 variants with their own… …

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  • 49Cant — This interesting and unusual surname is of Old French origin, and is a metonymic occupational name for a singer in a chantry, a chorister or precentor. The derivation is from the Old Norman French cant , Old French chant , singing, song. Job… …

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  • 50cant — cant1 [kænt] n [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: cant to speak, talk like a beggar trying to get money (16 18 centuries), from Latin cantare; CHANT1] 1.) [U] insincere talk about moral or religious principles by someone who is pretending to be better… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English