Synonyms of the word cant


CANTARGOT - BANK - BEVEL - BUNK - BUZZWORD - CAMBER - CHAMFER - EDGE - HOKUM - INCLINE - JARGON - LINGO - MEANINGLESSNESS - MOVE - NONSENSE - NONSENSICALITY - PATOIS - PITCH - SIDE - SLANG - SLANT - SLOPE - TALK - TALKING - TILT - VERNACULAR

cant

  • n. (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
  • n. Shelta.
  • n. (uncountable, pejorative) Empty, hypocritical talk.
  • n. (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
  • n. (countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some…
  • n. (obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
  • v. (intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
  • v. (intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
  • v. (intransitive) To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
  • v. (intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
  • v. (obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
  • n. (obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.
  • n. Slope, the angle at which something is set.
  • n. A corner (of a building).
  • n. An outer or external angle.
  • n. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
  • n. A movement or throw that overturns something.
  • n. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias…
  • n. (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
  • n. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
  • n. (nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
  • v. (transitive) To set (something) at an angle.
  • v. (transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
  • v. (transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
  • v. (transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
  • v. (transitive) To divide or parcel out.
  • adj. (Britain, dialect) lively, lusty.

argot

  • n. A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.
  • n. The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field,…

bank

  • n. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
  • n. A branch office of such an institution.
  • n. An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
  • n. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
  • n. (gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and…
  • n. (slang, uncountable) money; profit.
  • n. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
  • n. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
  • n. A device used to store coins or currency.
  • v. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution.
  • v. (transitive) To put into a bank.
  • n. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
  • n. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand,…
  • n. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
  • n. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
  • n. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
  • n. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
  • n. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
  • n. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
  • n. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
  • v. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
  • v. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
  • v. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
  • v. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
  • n. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
  • n. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
  • v. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
  • n. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
  • n. A bench or seat for judges in court.
  • n. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law,…
  • n. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
  • n. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
  • n. (uncountable) slang for money.

bevel

  • n. An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90 degree angle; a chamfer.
  • n. An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle,…
  • v. (transitive) To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer.
  • adj. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
  • adj. Morally distorted; not upright.

bunk

  • n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
  • n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  • n. (military) A cot.
  • n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  • n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • v. To occupy a bunk.
  • v. To provide a bunk.
  • n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
  • adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
  • v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
  • v. (dated) To expel from a school.

buzzword

  • n. (pejorative) A word drawn from or imitative of technical jargon, and often rendered meaningless and fashionable…

camber

  • n. A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that…
  • n. The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
  • n. (architecture) An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward…
  • n. (automotive) The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies…
  • n. The curvature of an airfoil.
  • n. (nautical) A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.
  • v. To curve upwards in the middle.
  • v. To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle.

chamfer

  • n. (woodworking, engineering, drafting, CAD) an obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished…
  • v. (transitive) to cut off the edge or corner of something; to bevel.
  • v. (transitive) to cut a groove in something; to flute.

edge

  • n. The boundary line of a surface.
  • n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices…
  • n. An advantage.
  • n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword,…
  • n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
  • n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  • n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time).
  • n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
  • n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
  • n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of…
  • v. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  • v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  • v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  • v. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric…
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  • v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  • v. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  • v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

hokum

  • n. Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.

incline

  • v. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
  • v. (intransitive) To slope.
  • v. To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view,…
  • n. A slope.

jargon

  • n. (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
  • n. (countable) Language characteristic of a particular group.
  • n. (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
  • v. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
  • n. A variety of zircon.

lingo

  • n. Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group or region; jargon or a dialect.

meaninglessness

  • n. The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
  • n. Anything that is meaningless.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

nonsense

  • n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
  • n. An untrue statement.
  • n. Something foolish.
  • n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
  • n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
  • v. To make nonsense of.
  • v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
  • v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
  • adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
  • adj. nonsensical.

nonsensicality

  • n. (uncountable) The state or condition of being nonsensical.
  • n. (countable) A nonsensical belief, remark, etc.

patois

  • n. A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.
  • n. Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
  • n. Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti).
  • n. Jamaican Patois, a Jamaican Creole language primarily based on English and African languages but also…
  • n. Jargon or cant.

pitch

  • n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
  • n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
  • n. (geology) Pitchstone.
  • v. To cover or smear with pitch.
  • v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
  • n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
  • n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
  • n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
  • n. An effort to sell or promote something.
  • n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
  • n. The angle at which an object sits.
  • n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
  • n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
  • n. The place where a busker performs.
  • n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
  • n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
  • n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
  • n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
  • n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
  • n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
  • n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
  • n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
  • n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
  • v. (transitive) To throw.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
  • v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
  • v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
  • v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
  • v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
  • v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
  • v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
  • v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
  • v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
  • v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
  • v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
  • v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
  • n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
  • n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

side

  • n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
  • n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
  • n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
  • n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
  • n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the…
  • n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.).
  • n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
  • n. One set of competitors in a game.
  • n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
  • n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
  • n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english.
  • n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being…
  • n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
  • n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
  • n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
  • v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
  • v. To lean on one side.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
  • v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
  • adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
  • adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
  • adj. (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing;…
  • adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
  • adv. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

slang

  • n. Language outside of conventional usage.
  • n. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
  • n. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those…
  • v. (transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
  • v. (archaic) simple past tense of sling.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
  • n. (Britain, obsolete) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

slant

  • n. A slope; an incline, inclination.
  • n. A sloped surface or line.
  • n. (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
  • n. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
  • n. An oblique movement or course.
  • n. (biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
  • n. A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
  • n. A container or surface bearing shallow sloping areas to hold watercolors.
  • n. (US, obsolete) A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
  • n. (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
  • n. (Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement…
  • n. (originally US) A point of view, an angle; a bias.
  • n. (US) A look, a glance.
  • n. (US, pejorative) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
  • v. To lean, tilt or incline.
  • v. To bias or skew.

slope

  • n. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
  • n. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
  • n. (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if…
  • n. (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
  • n. The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise…
  • n. (vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
  • v. (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
  • v. (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
  • v. (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
  • v. (military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt,…
  • adj. (obsolete) Sloping.
  • adv. (obsolete) slopingly.

talk

  • n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
  • n. A lecture.
  • n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
  • n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
  • n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
  • n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
  • v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

talking

  • n. The action of the verb talk.
  • v. present participle of talk.

tilt

  • v. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
  • v. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
  • v. (intransitive) To be at an angle.
  • v. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
  • v. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
  • v. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
  • v. (poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).
  • v. (photography) To move a camera vertically in a controlled way.
  • n. A slope or inclination. (uncountable).
  • n. A jousting contest. (countable).
  • n. A thrust, as with a lance.
  • n. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
  • n. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
  • n. A tilt hammer.
  • n. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
  • n. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
  • n. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
  • v. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

vernacular

  • n. The language of a people or a national language.
  • n. Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary, liturgical, or scientific…
  • n. Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
  • n. (Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to everyday language.
  • adj. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
  • adj. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
  • adj. (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.

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