What is can?

More definitions of "can":

• (noun): A buoy with a round bottom and conical top.
  Synonyms: can buoy

• (noun): Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
  Synonyms: tin, tin can

• (noun): A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination.
  Synonyms: toilet, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne

• (noun): The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
  Synonyms: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass

• (noun): The quantity contained in a can.
  Synonyms: canful

• (noun): A room equipped with toilet facilities.
  Synonyms: toilet, lavatory, lav, john, privy, bathroom

• (verb): Terminate the employment of.
  Synonyms: fire, give notice, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate

Famous quotes containing the word can:

“The worth that worthiness should move
Is love, that is the bow of Love.
And love as well the foster can
As can the mighty nobleman.
Sweet saint, ‘tis true you worthy be,
Yet without love nought worth to me.”
—Fulke Greville (1554–1628)

“Nothing that can be can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)