canned en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /kand/ (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
- /kænd/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- (Australia) audio
- [keːnd] ~ [kɛeːnd] Australia, æ-raising
- /kæːnd/ (Australia)
- /kɛnd/ (New-Zealand)
- [keənd] ~ [kɛənd] General American, Canada, æ-raising
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Preserved in cans.
If you don't have fresh cardoon I'll take canned.
canned tomatoes
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(broadly, not-comparable) Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass-produced, or lacking originality or customization.
The form letter included a canned answer stating that what I asked was against policy.
And the punch-lines seem to disappear like clouds across the sky / And the laughter could be real or could be canned
1996, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Liar's Bar”, in Blue Is the Colour, performed by The Beautiful South:Throughout the evening, Mr. Christie’s admonition about canned lines and rehearsed speeches hovered and seemed to recalibrate how the crowd — and television viewers — processed what Mr. Rubio said (and resaid, over and over).
2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times:canned laughter
The interpreter gave us a canned history of the site.
Unfortunately, some of the canned code, which Visual C++ gives to you when creating an application, is not CE aware and gives you compile errors.
1998, Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer:The vested owners of all those sun-drenched tract houses may stick around for a while and fight over the region, perhaps thinking that they are reenacting the great historical dramas of the nineteenth century—such is the long-term effect of canned entertainment on the collective imagination.
2005, James Howard Kunstler, chapter 7, in The Long Emergency, page 279:
- (not-comparable, slang) Drunk.
- (not-comparable) Terminated, fired from a job.
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(not-comparable) Cancelled or thrown away, said of a project or news article.
The raider story was canned by the censor on instructions from the naval authorities.
1997, Frederick T. Smith, Backroom Briefings: John Curtin's War:
Antonyms
dried (antonym(s) of “preserved in cans”)
Deriveds
canned ration · noncanned · canned cheese · canned air · canned opener · canned laughter · canned benchmark · canned hunt · canned heat · uncanned · canned response · canned hunting
Synonyms
drunk (drunk) · stock (prepared or standard) · boilerplate (prepared or standard) · tinned (preserved in cans)
Translations (36)
vi đóng lon (preserved in cans) · fi säilyke- (preserved in cans) · pdt enjekaunt (preserved in cans) · ru в ба́нке (preserved in cans) · bg консерви́ран (preserved in cans) · fi humalassa (drunk) · ja 缶の (preserved in cans) · pt enlatado (previously prepared) · pt bêbado (drunk) · mn лаазалсан (preserved in cans) · ru загото́вленный (previously prepared) · ja 缶詰の (preserved in cans) · fr en conserve (preserved in cans) · pa ਡੱਬਾਬੰਦ (preserved in cans) · ca enllaunat (preserved in cans) · de konserviert (preserved in cans) · vi đóng hộp (preserved in cans) · bg пия́н (drunk) · ru пья́ный (drunk) · pt enlatado (preserved in cans) · de Dosen- (preserved in cans) · fr en boîte (preserved in cans) · ru в за́писи (previously prepared) · tr konserve (preserved in cans) · fi tölkki- (preserved in cans) · ru запи́санный (previously prepared) · cmn 罐頭的 /罐头的 (preserved in cans) · cmn 罐裝的 /罐装的 (preserved in cans) · tl delata (preserved in cans) · fi kännissä (drunk) · es enlatado (preserved in cans) · ru бухо́й (drunk) · ru консерви́рованный (preserved in cans) · ga stáin (preserved in cans) · fi purkitettu (preserved in cans) · it in scatola (preserved in cans)