【cant】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

发音(Pronunciation)

• enPR: kănt, IPA^(key): /kænt/

• Audio (US)

• Rhymes: -ænt
• Homophone: can't (US), Homophone: Kant (in anglicized pronunciation)

词源1(Etymology 1)

From Latin cantō probably via Old Northern French canter (“sing, tell”)^[1][2]. Doublet of chant.

名词(Noun)

cant (usually uncountable, plural cants)

1. (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.

   Synonyms: argot, jargon, slang

   He had the look of a prince, but the cant of a fishmonger.

   • 1836, Three discourses preached before the Congregational Society in Watertown, page 65

     I am aware that the phrase free inquiry has become too much a cant phrase soiled by the handling of the ignorant and the reckless by those who fall into the mistake of supposing that religion has its root in the understanding and by those who can see just far enough to doubt and no further.

2. (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.

   Synonyms: argot, jargon, slang

3. A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
4. (uncountable, derogatory) Empty, hypocritical talk.

   People claim to care about the poor of Africa, but it is largely cant.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book IV ch iv

     He is too well grounded for all your philosophical cant to hurt.

   • 1759-1770, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

     Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

   • 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch 46:

     ... he knew very well that if they thought him clever they were being taken in, but it pleased him to have been able to take them in, and he tried to do so still further; he was therefore a good deal on the look-out for cants that he could catch and apply in season, and might have done himself some mischief thus if he had not been ready to throw over any cant as soon as he had come across another more nearly to his fancy ...

5. (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
6. (countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
7. (obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Intelligencer, number 19:

     […] but numbers of these tenants or their descendants are now offering to sell their leases by cant,

关联词(Related terms)

翻译(Translations)

动词(Verb)

cant (third-person singular simple present cants, present participle canting, simple past and past participle canted)

1. (intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
   • 1631, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, Act IV, scene iv:

     The doctor here, I will proceed with the learned. / When he discourseth of dissection, / Or of any point of anatomy; that he tells you / Of vena cava and of vena porta, / The meseraicks, and the mesenterium: / What does he else but cant?

   • 1854, Robert Sanderson, “The case of the liturgy”, in The Works of Robert Sanderson, D.D., Sometime Bishop of Lincoln‎^[1], volume 5, page 56:

     […] that uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language rather, if I may so call it

2. (intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
3. (intransitive) To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
   • 1812 [1612], Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, “Cupid's Revenge”, in Henry Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher‎^[2], Act IV, scene i, page 463:

     If he prove not yet / The cunning’st, rankest rogue that ever canted, / I’ll ne’er see man again!

   • 1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, volume I, 2nd edition, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, OCLC 316667080, page 145:

     [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]

4. (intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
5. (obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.

   1720, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for the Use of Irish Manufacture:

   […] labouring with all their might for preventing the bishops from letting their revenues at a moderate half value […] at the very instant, when they were every where canting their own land upon short leases, and sacrificing their oldest tenants for a penny an acre advance.

查看更多(See also)

• jargon
• sociolect

词源2(Etymology 2)

From Middle English cant (“edge, brink”), from Middle Dutch cant (“point, side, edge”) (Modern Dutch kant (“side, edge”)), ultimately of Celtic or Latin origin. Related to Medieval Latin cantus (“corner, side”), from Latin canthus.

名词(Noun)

cant (plural cants)

1. (obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.

   Under the cant of a hill.

   • 1604, Ben Jonson, The Coronation Triumph

     The first and principal person in the temple was Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant.

2. Slope, the angle at which something is set.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “‘Pieces of Eight’”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, OCLC 702939134, part V (My Sea Adventure), page 218:

     Owing to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water, and from my perch on the cross-trees I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay.

3. A corner (of a building).

   Synonym: corner

4. An outer or external angle.
5. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.

   Synonyms: bevel, slope, tilt

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)

6. A movement or throw that overturns something.
   • 1830, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia, volume 3, page 621

     It is not only of great service in keeping the boat in her due position on the sea, but also in creating a tendency immediately to recover from any sudden cant, or lurch, from a heavy wave; and it is besides beneficial in diminishing the violence of beating against the sides of the vessel which she may go to relieve.

7. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.

   to give a ball a cant

8. (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

9. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

10. (nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.

衍生词(Derived terms)

• cantrail

关联词(Related terms)

• cantilever

翻译(Translations)

动词(Verb)

cant (third-person singular simple present cants, present participle canting, simple past and past participle canted)

1. (transitive) To set (something) at an angle.

   to cant a cask; to cant a ship

2. (transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.

   to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football

3. (transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
4. (transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.

翻译(Translations)

词源3(Etymology 3)

Unknown, but compare Provençal cantel (“corner, piece”) or Old Northern French cantel (“piece broken off”).^[3] The verb is attested from the 15th century,^[4] and the noun from the 16th.^[3]

动词(Verb)

cant (third-person singular simple present cants, present participle canting, simple past and past participle canted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To divide or parcel out.

名词(Noun)

cant (plural cants)

1. (regional, forestry) A parcel, a division.

词源4(Etymology 4)

From Middle English cant, kaunt, presumably from Middle Low German *kant. Compare Dutch kant (“neat, clever”). Attested from the 13th or 14th century.^[5]

替代形式(Alternative forms)

• kant

形容词(Adjective)

cant (not comparable)

1. (Britain, dialect) Lively, lusty.

来源参考(References)

查看更多(Further reading)

• Cant (language) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

变位词(Anagrams)

• NCTA, T-Can

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Catalan

词源(Etymology)

From Old Occitan cant, from Latin cantus.

名词(Noun)

cant m (plural cants)

1. song

发音(Pronunciation)

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkan/

同义词(Synonyms)

• cançó

关联词(Related terms)

• cantar

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Italian

名词(Noun)

cant m (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of canto

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中古英语(Middle English)

词源(Etymology)

Possibly from Middle Low German *kant.

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /kant/

形容词(Adjective)

cant

1. bold, lively, cant
   • c. 1340, Cursor Mundi, Cotton Vespasian A iii, lines 8943-46:

     Iuus þat war sa cant and kene, / Quen þai had þis meracles sene, / þai drou it þen and mad a brig / Ouer a litel burn to lig

     Jews who were so bold and ready, when they had seen this miracle, pulled it out and made a bridge over a little stream to lie

派生词(Descendants)

• English: cant (dialectal)

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Welsh

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /kant/

词源1(Etymology 1)

From Proto-Brythonic *kant, from Proto-Celtic *kantom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

数字化(Numeral)

cant (ordinal canfed)

1. one hundred

衍生词(Derived terms)

• hanner cant (“fifty”)
• cant a hanner (“one hundred and fifty”)
• dau gant (“two hundred”)
• tri chant (“three hundred”)
• pum cant (“five hundred”)

名词(Noun)

cant m (plural cannoedd)

1. hundred
2. century

词源2(Etymology 2)

Middle Welsh, from Proto-Celtic *kantos (“corner, rim”). Related to Breton kant (“circle”), Old Irish cétad (“round seat”).

名词(Noun)

cant m (plural cantau)

1. hoop
2. rim

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cant	gant	nghant	chant
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

来源参考(References)

• Definition from the BBC
• Hoops, Johannes (1973): Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, Volume 16, p. 445