单词	cant
释义	cant1 nouncant2 verb cantcant1 /kænt/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINcant1 Origin: 1600-1700 cant ‘to speak, talk like a beggar trying to get money’ (16-18 centuries), from Latin cantare; ➔ CHANT1 Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES His viewpoint is remarkably free of idealism or cant. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Along with that sound goes the overpowering stench of mendacity and cant. And yet their eyes, their lips, a certain shy grin or quizzical cant of an eyebrow, look strangely familiar. But what about the cant of usury and the mode of treating that he ought to know? If there was one thing that he hated fervently it was affectation and cant. Instantly, Penn establishes himself as an unsympathetic Satan, even before he starts his white-supremacist cant. Their cant was not religious but phrenological. word sets WORD SETS► Linguistics acronym, nounadage, nounaffricate, nounagglutination, nounalphanumeric, adjectiveanglophone, nounantecedent, nounantonym, nounaphorism, nounarchaism, nounargot, nounaspirate, verbaspirate, nounaspiration, nounassonance, nounbaby talk, nounback, adjectiveback formation, nounbilabial, nounbody language, nouncant, nouncliché, nouncognate, adjectivecognate, nouncollocate, verbcollocation, nouncolloquial, adjectivecombining form, nouncompound, nounconcordance, nounconnotation, nounconsonant, nouncontext, nouncontraction, nouncorpus, noundative, noundeclarative, adjectivedecline, verbdecode, verbdescriptive, adjectivediction, noundiminutive, noundiminutive suffix, noundiphthong, nounelide, verbellipsis, nounelocution, nounemphasis, nounencode, verbenunciate, verb-ese, suffixetymology, nouneuphemism, nouneuphemistic, adjectiveexpression, nounfigurative, adjectivefirst language, nounformal, adjectivefricative, noungender, nounglide, nounglottal stop, nounhard, adjectivehieroglyphics, nounhigh-level, adjectivehomograph, nounhomonym, nounhomophone, nounhyperbole, nounideogram, nounidiolect, nounidiom, nounidiomatic, adjectiveinflection, nounintonation, nounIPA, nounironic, adjectivejargon, nounlabial, nounlanguage, nounlegalese, nounlexical, adjectivelexicography, nounlexicon, nounlexis, nounlingua franca, nounlinguist, nounlinguistic, adjectivelinguistics, nounlip-read, verbloanword, nounlocution, nounlong, adjectivemaxim, nounmetalanguage, nounmispronounce, verbmnemonic, nounmonosyllabic, adjectivemonosyllable, nounmorpheme, nounmorphology, nounnasal, adjectivenasal, nounneologism, nounneutral, adjectivenonce, adjectivenon-standard, adjectivenonverbal, adjectiveofficialese, nounonomatopoeia, nounopen vowel, nounorientalist, nounoxymoron, nounpalindrome, nounparagraph, nounparaphrase, verbparaphrase, nounphilology, nounphoneme, nounphonemics, nounphonetic, adjectivephonetics, nounphonic, adjectivephonology, nounphrasal, adjectivephraseology, nounpidgin, nounplosive, nounpolyglot, adjectivepolysemous, adjectivepolysyllabic, adjectiveportmanteau word, nounpragmatics, nounpreliterate, adjectivepre-verbal, adjectiveprimary stress, nounpronounce, verbpronounceable, adjectivepronunciation, nounproverb, nounpsychobabble, nounReceived Pronunciation, nounrecitation, nounregister, nounretroflex, adjectiveRP, nounschwa, nounsecondary stress, nounsecond language, nounsemantic, adjectivesemantics, nounsemiotics, nounsemi-vowel, nounshort, adjectivesibilant, adjectivesibilant, nounsic, adverbsilent, adjectivesimile, nounslang, nounsound, verbspeech, nounspeech therapy, nounspell, verbspelling, nounspoonerism, nounstandard, adjectivestem, nounstop, nounstress, nounstress, verbstressed, adjectivestress mark, nounstructuralism, nounstylistics, nounsuperlative, nounsyllabic, adjectivesyllable, nounsynonym, nounsynonymous, adjectivetechnical, adjectiveterminology, nounthesaurus, nountone, nountone language, nountoneless, adjectivetongue, nountranscribe, verbtranscription, nountrope, noununpronounceable, adjectiveunstressed, adjectiveunvoiced, adjectiveusage, nounuse, verbuse, nounvelar, adjectivevocabulary, nounvoiceless, adjectivevowel, noun 1insincere talk about moral or religious principles by someone who is pretending to be better than they really are2formal special words used by a particular group of people, especially in order to keep things secret SYN  slang:  thieves’ cant cant1 nouncant2 verb cantcant2 verb [intransitive, transitive] Verb Table VERB TABLE cant Simple Form Present I, you, we, they cant he, she, it cants Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they canted Present perfect I, you, we, they have canted he, she, it has canted Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had canted Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will cant Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have canted Continuous Form Present I am canting he, she, it is canting you, we, they are canting Past I, he, she, it was canting you, we, they were canting Present perfect I, you, we, they have been canting he, she, it has been canting Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been canting Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be canting Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been canting Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The controls are canted toward the driver. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Grave Digger clears all the yellow cars, canting far to one side. It maddened him and he canted athwart. She was sitting down by the gate, one hand on her neck, her head canted over at a fierce angle. This city could reconfigure parts of itself, great vitrodur panels sliding smoothly, tilting, canting. to lean, or make something lean
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