Engels Woord van de dag

can

Definities

Engels > Nederlands

can

1. (ik) kan

2. (je) kunt

3. (we) kunnen

4. kan

5. blikje, conservenblik

Engels > Engels

can

1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.

She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday?

2. v. (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?

3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.

Can it be Friday already?

Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.

Animals can experience emotions.

4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.

Can you hear that?.

I can feel the baby moving inside me.

5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.

6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.

7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).

8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.

9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.

Shit or get off the can.

Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.

10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks.

11. n. (slang) Jail or prison.

Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.

12. n. (slang) Headphones.

13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup.

14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark

15. n. A chimney pot.

16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.

They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.

17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).

He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.

18. v. To shut up.

Can your gob.

19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.

The boss canned him for speaking out.

Voorbeeldzinnen

You can see it with the naked eye.
    U kan het zien met het blote oog.
How can I feel relaxed, with you watching me like that?
    Hoe kan ik me ontspannen voelen, als jij zo naar mij kijkt.
I can't do it, sorry.
    Ik kan het niet, sorry.
Maybe someone else can help us.
    Misschien kan iemand anders ons helpen.
I'll help you as far as I can.
    Ik zal je zoveel als ik kan helpen.

Vorige woorden herzien

long	mirror	handbag	school desk
eighteen	red	hour	beer
living room	blink	small	pear
syringe	cymbal	underwear	seventy-nine

Willekeurig

deer	sun	year	aunt
bedroom	thirty	forty	soup
bolt	pole	waterfall	fifty-one
saxophone	writing	car mat	eighty-seven

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