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noun | verb cantcant1 /kænt/ noun ETYMOLOGYcant1Origin: 1600-1700 cant to speak, talk like a beggar trying to get money (16-18 centuries), from Latin cantare; ➔ CHANT1 1[uncountable] formal insincere talk about moral or religious principles by someone who is pretending to be better than he or she really is2[countable, uncountable] formal special words used by a particular group of people, especially in order to keep things secret SYN argot3[countable] a sloping surface or angle noun | verb cantcant2 verb [intransitive, transitive] VERB TABLEcant |
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 |
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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 |
to lean, or make something lean |