Can vs Cone - What's the difference?
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To know how to; to be able to.
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, title= May; to be permitted or enabled to.
To be possible, usually with be .
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= To know.
* ca.1360-1387 , (William Langland), (Piers Plowman)
* ca.1360-1387 , (William Langland), (Piers Plowman)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium.
A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can ).
A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
(US, slang) toilet, bathroom.
(US, slang) buttocks.
(slang) jail or prison.
(slang) headphones.
(obsolete) A drinking cup.
* Tennyson
To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
To shut up.
(US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
(label) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
(label) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
(label) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
Anything shaped like a cone.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary , Oxford University Press, 1998
The fruit of a conifer.
An ice cream cone.
A traffic cone
A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
(label) The bowl piece on a bong.
(label) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
(label) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
(label) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
(label) Given a diagram F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a ''cone'' consists of an object ''N'' of ''C'', together with a family of morphisms ψ''X'' : ''N'' → ''F''(''X'') indexed by all of the objects of ''J'', such that for every morphism ''f'' : ''X'' → ''Y'' in ''J'', . Then ''N'' is the ''vertex'' of the ''cone'', whose ''sides'' are all the ψ''X'' indexed by Ob(''J'') and whose ''base'' is ''F''. The ''cone'' is said to be "from ''N'' to ''F''" and can be denoted as (''N , ψ).
A shell of the genus Conus , having a conical form.
A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
(label) To fashion into the shape of a .
(label) To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones
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As nouns the difference between can and cone
is that can is song while cone is cone.As a verb can
is (lb).can
English
(wikipedia can)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m) (first and third person singular of , Danish (m). More at canny, cunning.Verb
Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
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- I can rimes of Robin Hood.
- I can no Latin, quod she.
- Let the priest in surplice white, / That defunctive music can .
Usage notes
* For missing forms, substitute inflected forms of be able to , as: ** I might be able to go. ** I was able to go yesterday. ** I have been able to go, since I was seven. ** I had been able to go before. ** I will be able to go tomorrow. * The word could also suffices in many tenses. "I would be able to go" is equivalent to "I could go", and "I was unable to go" can be rendered "I could not go". (Unless there is a clear indication otherwise, "could verb''" means "would be able to ''verb''", but "could not ''verb''" means "was/were unable to ''verb ".) * The present tense negative can not'' is often contracted to ''cannot'' or ''can't . * The use of can'' in asking permission sometimes is criticized as being impolite or incorrect by those who favour the more formal alternative ''"may I...?" . * Can'' is sometimes used rhetorically to issue a command, placing the command in the form of a request. For instance, ''"Can you hand me that pen?"'' as a polite substitution for ''"Hand me that pen." * Some US dialects that glottalize the final /t/ in can't'' ( even when stressed.Synonyms
* be able to * mayAntonyms
* cannot * can’tSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) canne, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Fill the cup and fill the can , / Have a rouse before the morn.
Synonyms
* (cylindrical metal container) tinDerived terms
* beer can * can opener * carry the can * garbage can * kick at the can * kick the can / kick-the-can * kick the can down the road * trash canVerb
(cann)- They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
- He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
- Can your gob.
- The boss canned him for speaking out.
Statistics
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(wikipedia cone)Noun
(en noun)- «Let J'' be an index category which has an initial object ''I''. Let ''F'' be a diagram of type ''J'' in ''C''. Then category ''C'' contains a cone from ''F''(''I'') to ''F .»
- «If category C'' has a cone from ''N'' to ''F'' and a morphism from ''M'' to ''N'', then category ''C'' also has a cone from ''M'' to ''F .»
