Usually means: Container for holding liquids, foods.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. Can, can, the can: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Can, can, can, the can: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Can, can, can, can: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Can, can: Collins English Dictionary
  5. can: Vocabulary.com
  6. CAn, Can, Can, Can, can: Wordnik
  7. can, the can: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Can, can: Wiktionary
  9. can: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. can: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. can: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. CAN, can: Dictionary.com
  13. can (n.), can (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. can: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CAN (disambiguation), CAN (gene), CAN, Can (South Korean band), Can (album), Can (band), Can (disambiguation), Can (name), Can (verb), Can: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Can: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. can: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. can: Rhymezone
  19. can: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. can: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Can (of food, etc.): American-Britih Dictionary
  22. CAN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. can: Free Dictionary
  24. can: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. can: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Can, can: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. can: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. can, can, can, can: Wordnik
  29. can: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. can-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  5. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAN: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. can: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CAN: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CIA World Factbook (No longer online)
  3. CAN: Acronym Finder
  4. CAN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. can: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. can: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Can (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. can, can, can: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Can: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. CaN, the can: Urban Dictionary
  5. Can: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. can: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. can: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. CAN: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
verb:  (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
verb:  (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
verb:  (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) Used to form requests, typically polite.
verb:  (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To know.
verb:  (India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed).
noun:  A more or less cylindrical and often metal container or vessel.
noun:  A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
noun:  (archaic) A chamber pot.
noun:  (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
noun:  (US, slang) Buttocks.
noun:  (slang) Jail or prison.
noun:  (slang, in the plural) Headphones.
noun:  (archaic) A drinking cup.
noun:  (nautical) A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
noun:  A chimney pot.
noun:  (slang, in the plural) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
noun:  (US, slang) An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
noun:  A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
noun:  (vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.
verb:  (transitive) To seal in a can.
verb:  (transitive) To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
verb:  (transitive) To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, slang) To shut up.
verb:  (US, euphemistic, transitive) To fire or dismiss an employee.
verb:  (golf, slang, transitive) To hole the ball.
verb:  (transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
noun:  The River Can, a river in Essex, England, that joins the River Chelmer in Chelmsford.
noun:  (inorganic chemistry, uncountable) ceric ammonium nitrate
noun:  (initialism) The Andean Community of Nations.
noun:  Alternative spelling of Can.
noun:  (computing, manufacturing, automotive) Abbreviation of Controller Area Network., ISO standards 11898, 11898-1, 11898-2, and its predecessor standards.
noun:  (computing, manufacturing, automotive, countable) Abbreviation of controller area network.
noun:  (computing, countable) Initialism of campus area network.
noun:  (South Africa, countable) Acronym of community action network.
noun:  Initialism of consistent and asymptotically normal, a statistic estimator Tₙ(X₁, X₂, ..., Xₙ) is CAN (consistent and asymptotically normal) if ....
noun:  (Australia, countable) Acronym of court attendance notice.

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