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Cannon vs Canaan - What's the difference?

cannon | canaan |

As proper nouns the difference between cannon and canaan

is that cannon is while canaan is an historic region of the middle east, roughly equivalent to palestine.

cannon

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.(JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).
  • A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
  • (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
  • (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
  • In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.
  • (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player that can throw well.
  • He's got a cannon out in right.
  • (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
  • (printing) (a large size of type)
  • Usage notes

    The unchanged plural is preferred in Great Britain and Ireland, while North Americans and Australians tend to use the regular plural cannons . On aircraft, autocannons are sometimes called "cannons" for short.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bombard with cannons
  • (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
  • The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
  • To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
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    canaan

    English

    (wikipedia Canaan)

    Alternative forms

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    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An historic region of the Middle East, roughly equivalent to Palestine.
  • A grandson of Noah.
  • * :
  • And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
  • (lb) of biblical origin.
  • Derived terms

    * Canaanite