| candidature | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, electioneering, political campaign |
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| candidiasis | (noun) an infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans) | Synonyms: monilia disease, moniliasis |
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| candidly | (adverb) (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that | Synonyms: frankly, honestly |
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| candidness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candor, candour, directness, forthrightness, frankness |
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| candied | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: crystalised, crystalized, glace |
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| (adjective) encrusted with sugar or syrup | Synonyms: sugar-coated |
| candle | (noun) stick of wax with a wick in the middle | Synonyms: taper, wax light |
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| (noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candela, cd, standard candle |
| (verb) examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light | - |
| candleberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
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| candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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| candlemaker | (noun) a person who makes or sells candles | - |
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| candlenut | (noun) large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles | Synonyms: Aleurites moluccana, varnish tree |
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| (noun) seed of candlenut tree; source of oil used in varnishes | - |
| candlepin | (noun) a bowling pin that is thin by comparison with a tenpin | - |
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| candlepins | (noun) a bowling game using slender bowling pins | Synonyms: candlepin bowling |
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| candlepower | (noun) luminous intensity measured in candelas | Synonyms: light intensity |
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| candlesnuffer | (noun) an implement with a small cup at the end of a handle; used to extinguish the flame of a candle | - |
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| candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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| candlewick | (noun) the wick of a candle | - |
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| (noun) loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern | - |
| candlewood | (noun) any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light | - |
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| candor | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candour, directness, forthrightness, frankness |
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| (noun) ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty | Synonyms: candour, fair-mindedness, fairness |
| candour | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness |
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| (noun) ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty | Synonyms: candor, fair-mindedness, fairness |
| candy | (noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts | Synonyms: confect |
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| (verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: glaze, sugarcoat |
| candyfloss | (noun) a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature | Synonyms: cotton candy, spun sugar |
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| candymaker | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: confectioner |
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| candytuft | (noun) any of various flowering plants of the genus Iberis cultivated for their showy clusters of white to red or purple flowers; native to Mediterranean region | - |
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| candyweed | (noun) bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers | Synonyms: orange milkwort, Polygala lutea, yellow bachelor's button, yellow milkwort |
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| cane | (noun) a stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment | - |
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| (noun) a stick that people can lean on to help them walk | - |
| (noun) a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane | - |
| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: flog, lambast, lambaste |
| canebrake | (noun) a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane) | - |
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| canecutter | (noun) a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands | Synonyms: swamp hare, swamp rabbit, Sylvilagus aquaticus |
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| canella | (noun) highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic | Synonyms: canella bark, white cinnamon |
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| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| canfield | (noun) a form of solitaire that involves gambling | - |
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| canful | (noun) the quantity contained in a can | Synonyms: can |
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| cangue | (noun) an instrument of punishment formerly used in China for petty criminals; consists of a heavy wooden collar enclosing the neck and arms | - |
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| canicular | (adjective) relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star) | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the dog days of summer | - |
| canicule | (noun) the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity | Synonyms: canicular days, dog days |
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| canid | (noun) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles | Synonyms: canine |
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| canine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: laniary |
| (noun) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles | Synonyms: canid |
| (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth |
| caning | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: wicker, wickerwork |
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| canistel | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: eggfruit |
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| (noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit | Synonyms: canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa |
| canister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: cannister, tin |
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| (noun) a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm | Synonyms: canister shot, case shot |
| canker | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: pestilence |
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| (noun) an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth) | Synonyms: canker sore |
| (noun) a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark | - |
| (verb) infect with a canker | - |
| (verb) become infected with a canker | - |
| cankerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: ulcerated, ulcerous |
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| cankerweed | (noun) herb of northeastern North America having drooping clusters of yellowish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes | Synonyms: Nabalus alba, Prenanthes alba, white lettuce |
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| cankerworm | (noun) green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees | - |
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| canna | (noun) any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers | - |
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| cannabin | (noun) a resin obtained from the hemp plant; thought to be the active narcotic agent in marijuana | Synonyms: cannabis resin |
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| cannabis | (noun) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect | Synonyms: ganja, marihuana, marijuana |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs | Synonyms: hemp |
| canned | (adjective) sealed in a can or jar | Synonyms: tinned |
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| (adjective) recorded for broadcast | Synonyms: transcribed |
| cannelloni | (noun) tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese | - |
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| cannery | (noun) a factory where food is canned | - |
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| cannibal | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, anthropophagus, man-eater |
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| cannibalic | (adjective) marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage | - |
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| cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
| cannibalism | (noun) the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind | - |
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| cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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| cannibalize | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalise |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalise |
| cannikin | (noun) a small can | - |
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| (noun) a wooden bucket | - |
| cannily | (adverb) with foresight | Synonyms: presciently |
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| cannister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, tin |
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| cannon | (noun) a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other | Synonyms: carom |
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| (noun) lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | Synonyms: shank |
| (noun) a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels | - |
| (noun) heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane | - |
| (noun) (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm | - |
| (noun) heavy gun fired from a tank | - |
| (verb) fire a cannon | - |
| (verb) make a cannon | - |
| cannonade | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: drumfire |
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| (verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
| cannonball | (noun) a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon | Synonyms: cannon ball, round shot |
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| cannoneer | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, gunner, machine gunner |
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| cannula | (noun) a small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication | - |
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| cannular | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiform |
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| cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cannulation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulisation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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| cannulisation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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| cannulise | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cannulization | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, canulation, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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| cannulize | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, canulate, intubate |
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| canny | (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, clever |
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| canoe | (noun) small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle | - |
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| (verb) travel by canoe | - |
| canoeist | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: paddler |
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| canola | (noun) vegetable oil made from rapeseed; it is high in monounsaturated fatty acids | Synonyms: canola oil |
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| canon | (noun) a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy | - |
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| (noun) a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts | - |
| (noun) a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired | - |
| (noun) a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church | - |
| (noun) a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall | Synonyms: canyon |
| (noun) a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter | - |
| canonic | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonical |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonical |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonical, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonical |
| canonical | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonic |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonic |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonic, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonic |
| canonically | (adverb) in a canonical manner | - |
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| canonisation | (noun) (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints | Synonyms: canonization |
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| canonise | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonize, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonize |
| canonised | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonized, glorified |
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| canonist | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism" | - |
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| (noun) a specialist in canon law | - |
| canonization | (noun) (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints | Synonyms: canonisation |
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| canonize | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonise, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonise |
| canonized | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonised, glorified |
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| canoodle | (verb) fondle or pet affectionately | - |
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| canopied | (adjective) covered with or as with a canopy | - |
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| canopy | (noun) a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather | - |
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| (noun) the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air | - |
| (noun) the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit | - |
| (verb) cover with a canopy | - |
| canorous | (adjective) richly melodious | Synonyms: songful |
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| cant | (noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: bevel, chamfer |
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| (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
| (noun) stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition | Synonyms: buzzword |
| (noun) insincere talk about religion or morals | Synonyms: pious platitude |
| (noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force | Synonyms: bank, camber |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant over, pitch, slant, tilt |
| cantabile | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: singing |
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| cantala | (noun) Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine | Synonyms: Agave cantala, maguey |
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| (noun) hard fiber used in making coarse twine; from Philippine agave plants | Synonyms: Cebu maguey, manila maguey |
| cantaloup | (noun) the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh | Synonyms: cantaloupe |
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| (noun) a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup vine, cantaloupe, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis |
| cantaloupe | (noun) the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup |
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| (noun) a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup, cantaloup vine, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis |
| cantankerous | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: crotchety, ornery |
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| (adjective) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | Synonyms: bloody-minded |
| cantankerously | (adverb) in a bad mood | - |
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| cantata | (noun) a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text | Synonyms: oratorio |
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| canted | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, leaning, tilted, tipped |
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| canteen | (noun) a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers | - |
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| (noun) restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat | - |
| (noun) a recreation room in an institution | - |
| (noun) a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen | Synonyms: mobile canteen |
| (noun) sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc. | - |
| canter | (noun) a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop | Synonyms: lope |
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| (verb) ride at a canter | - |
| (verb) go at a canter, of horses | - |
| (verb) cause to ride at a cantering pace | - |