Canner vs Canker - What's the difference?
canner | canker |
Someone or something which cans.
A large pot used for processing jars when preserving food, either in a boiling water bath or by capturing steam to elevate the pressure and temperature.
(US, slang) Someone who lives off refunds from recycling.
(botany) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
* Temple
A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
* Shakespeare
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae .
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; usually resulting from neglected thrush.
To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
* 1849 , , In Memoriam , 26:
To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
As a proper noun canner
is .As a noun canker is
(botany) a plant disease marked by gradual decay.As a verb canker is
to affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.canner
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Noun
(en noun)Quotations
One who lives off container deposits * 2007 , Jon Mooallem,The Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration],(New York Times), May 27, 2007, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/magazine/27Bottle-t.html?pagewanted=7 p. 7: *: Yet many canners told me that they can easily earn a daily wage of 20 or 30 dollars; each then recycles upward of 600 containers every day. * 2009 , (Camilo Jose Vergara),
125th and Lex: The most complicated, disturbing, and lively intersection in New York City. A photo essay., , December 3, 2009: *: Among the crowds are ordinary working people shopping at the Pathmark, as well as down-and-out "canners " bringing their cans and bottles to the recycling station on East 124th Street. ----
canker
English
Noun
- the cankers of envy and faction
- To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, / And plant this thorn, this canker , Bolingbroke.
Synonyms
* water canker, canker of the mouth, noma * (bird disease) avian trichomoniasis, roup * (hawk disease) frounceVerb
(en verb)- Still onward winds the dreary way; / I with it; for I long to prove / No lapse of moons can canker Love, / Whatever fickle tongues may say.
