can
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(auxiliary, defective)(auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to.
She can speak English, French, and German.
I can play football.
- 2.
(auxiliary, defective)(auxiliary verb, defective) To be able to.
Can you remember your fifth birthday?
Animals can experience emotions.
Can you hear that?
I can feel the baby moving inside me.
Đồng nghĩa: be able to
- 3.
(auxiliary, defective, informal, modal)(modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework.
Can I use your pen?
Đồng nghĩa: may
- 4.
(auxiliary, defective, modal)(modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to.
Can it be Friday already?
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
- 5.
(auxiliary, defective, informal, modal)(modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) Used to form requests, typically polite.
Can you please come over here?
Can we try that scene again?
- 6.
(obsolete, transitive)To know.
ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman I can rimes of Robin Hood.
ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman I can no Latin, quod she.
Đồng nghĩa: cognize, grok, ken
- 7.
(India, nonstandard, proscribed)To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can
- 8.
(Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary, intransitive)(Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary or intransitive) To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context.
Can anot?
- 9.
(Manglish, Singlish, intransitive)To be fine or acceptable; to be possible; (with liao or already) to be enough. Often used in conjunction with a variety of clause-final particles, e.g., lah, meh or one, to express different attitudes towards the subject matter.
Can liao, don’t need to use so much glue.
- 10.
(transitive)To seal in a can.
They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists.
- 11.
(transitive)To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
- 12.
(transitive)To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
interjection
interjectioncannekinc'
- 1.
(Manglish, Singlish)OK, sure; indicates approval or acknowledgment.
- 2.
(Manglish, Singlish)(Manglish, Singlish, with falling or rising-falling pitch) Used to convey reassurance.
particle
particlecannekinc'
- 1.
(Manglish, Singlish, interrogative)OK(?); used at the end of a question when seeking approval or acknowledgment.
I cut this wire, can?
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.
I keep a can of fuel for emergencies.
- 2.
A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- 3.
(archaic)A chamber pot.
- 4.
(Canada, US, childish, slang, vulgar)(childish or vulgar, slang, Canada, US) Buttocks.
- 5.
(Canada, US, slang, vulgar)The breasts of a woman.
- 6.
(slang)Jail or prison.
Bob’s in the can. He won’t be back for a few years.
- 7.
(in plural, slang)(slang, in the plural) Headphones.
- 8.
(archaic)A drinking cup.
- 9.
(nautical) A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- 10.
A chimney pot.
- 11.
(in plural, slang)(slang, in the plural) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
- 12.
(US, slang)An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
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Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (to be able, know how), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (to know how), from *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence also know). con. See also: canny, cunning.