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dean | cannon |

As a verb dean

is do.

As a noun dean

is dean.

As a proper noun cannon is

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dean

English

(wikipedia dean)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science'') or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the ''dean of students ).
  • A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canon.
  • The senior member of some group of people.
  • dean of the diplomatic corps - a country's most senior ambassador
    dean of the House - the longest-serving member of a legislature
  • * 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 67:
  • All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean , Alice Hart, collected
  • (Sussex) a hill (chiefly place names).
  • Derived terms

    * dean and chapter * deaness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To serve as a dean.
  • To send (a student) to see the dean of a university.
  • Anagrams

    * * * ----

    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.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
  • , date=September 2 , author= , title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Montenegro had hardly threatened in the second period but served notice they were still potent as Nikola Vukcevic took a smart pass from Jovetic and cannoned a shot off Hennessey's shins.}}