Cant, CANT, canting, or canted may refer to:
Language
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Cant (language), a secret language
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Beurla Reagaird
Beurla Reagaird (; previously also spelled ''Beurla Reagair'') is a nearly extinct, Scottish Gaelic-based cant used by the indigenous travelling community of the Highlands of Scotland, formerly often referred to by the disparaging name "tinker ...
, a language of the Scottish Highland Travellers
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Scottish Cant
Scottish Cant (often called Scots-Romani or Scotch-Romani) is a cant spoken in Scotland by Lowland Scottish Romani Travellers.Kirk, J. & Ó Baoill, D. ''Travellers and their Language'' (2002) Queen's University Belfast
Classification
It is un ...
, a language of the Scottish Lowland Travellers
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Shelta 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, 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)
CANT (''Cantieri Aeronautici e Navali Triestini'', the Trieste Shipbuilding and Naval Aeronautics; also sometimes labelled C.R.D.A. CANT) was an Italian aviation company which originally specialised in building naval aircraft, formed in 1923 as par ...
(''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 (dimensi ...
, 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, a tool used in making batik
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Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear musician)
Christopher Taylor (born August 29, 1981) is an American multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is best known as the bass guitarist, backing vocalist and producer of the Brooklyn-based indie rock band Grizzly Bear, with whom he has recor ...
, 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
See also
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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
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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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