Cant, CANT, canting, or canted may refer to:
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Cant (language)
A cant is the jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group.McArthur, T. (ed.) ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (1992) Oxford University Press It may also be called a cryptolect, argot ...
, a secret language
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Beurla Reagaird, a language of the Scottish Highland Travellers
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Scottish Cant, a language of the Scottish Lowland Travellers
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Shelta
Shelta (; Irish: ''Seiltis'') is a language spoken by Rilantu Mincéirí ( Irish Travellers), particularly in Ireland and the United Kingdom.McArthur, T. (ed.) ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (1992) Oxford University Press It ...
or the Cant, a language of the Irish Travellers
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Thieves' cant, a language of criminals
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Canting arms
Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus.
French heralds used the term (), as they would sound out the name of the armiger. Many armorial al ...
, heraldic puns on the bearer's name
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Can't
The English modal verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality (properties such as possibility, obligation, etc.). They can be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participle ...
, contraction of cannot
Other uses
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Cant (architecture)
A cant in architecture is an angled (oblique-angled) line or surface that cuts off a corner.
Something with a cant is ''canted''.
Canted facades are a typical of, but not exclusive to, Baroque architecture. The angle breaking the facade is le ...
, part of a facade
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CANT (aviation) (''Cantieri Aeronautici e Navali Triestini''), an aircraft manufacturer
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Cant (log)
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes ( dimen ...
, a log partially processed in a sawmill
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Cant (road/rail), an angle of a road or track
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Cant (shooting), referring to a gun being tilted around the longitudinal axis, rather than being horizontally levelled
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Cant (surname), a family name and persons with it
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Canting
' (IPA: , VOS Spelling: ''tjanting'', jv, ꦕꦤ꧀ꦛꦶꦁ, Tjanting) is a pen-like tool used to apply liquid hot wax ( jv, ) in the batik-making process in Indonesia, more precisely '' batik tulis'' (lit. "written batik"). Traditional ' ...
, a tool used in making batik
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Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear musician), an American performer
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University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...
, a New Zealand university which uses ''Cantuar'' or ''Cant'' as an abbreviation for their name in post-nominal letters
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CANT (disambiguation)
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Canté, a commune in Ariège, France
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Canter (disambiguation)
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Canticle
A canticle (from the Latin ''canticulum'', a diminutive of ''canticum'', "song") is a hymn, psalm or other Christian song of praise with lyrics usually taken from biblical or holy texts. Canticles are used in Christian liturgy.
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Kant (disambiguation) Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was a Prussian philosopher.
Kant may also refer to:
Places
* Kant, Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, a town and ''nagar panchayat''
* Kant, Kyrgyzstan, a city
** Kant Air Base, a Russian base near the city
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Kante (disambiguation)
Kante may refer to:
* Kante (surname), a surname of African origin
** N'Golo Kanté (born 1991), French footballer who plays for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad
* Kante, Nepal
* Kante, Tajikistan
See also
* Kanté, a surname
* ''Kaante
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