CANS

"CANS" is a plural of: can.

Date "CANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: CANS

Crosswords: CANS

Cornish (one hundred).

He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

Why? I eat from garbage cans, drink from public toilets (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Russell, there's beer cans in the trash in the kitchen (Bio-Dome; writing credit: Adam Leff; Mitchell Peck)

You can get them for free at the coffee shop in those metal cans. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Hey, look at the cans on that bimbo (Bachelor Party; writing credit: Bob Israel; Neal Israel)

Success comes in cans, not can'ts. (references; author: unknown)

Clean clams crammed in clean cans. (references; author: unknown)

Alice Cans the Cannibals (1925)

Tin Cans (1921)

Testing Cans by Machinery (1901)

Sweating Cans (1901)

Labeling Cans (1901)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Off-trade Lager in Cans in Asia (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Lager in Cans (reference)

• The World Market for Iron, Steel, or Aluminum Tanks, Casks, Drums, Cans, and Similar Containers with Capacity of Less Than 300 Liters: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Best Recipes from the Backs of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Jars (reference)

• The Label Made Me Buy It: The Best-Dressed Boxes, Bottles and Cans From Aunt Jemima to Zonkers (reference)

• The Total Package: The Secret History and Hidden Meanings of Boxes, Bottles, Cans, and Other Persuasive Containers (reference)

• A Number, A Nerd and A Mystery (Crackling Cans Mystery Series #1) (reference)

• Likeable Recyclables: Creative Ideas for Reusing Bags, Boxes, Cans, and Cartons (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is an experimental miniature pig. The experimental animal is being held in place by rubber-tube covered arms in a laboratory setting. Some cans are visible on shelves behind the animal. The miniature pig has an unusually thick placenta that prevents sow's immune system from influencing that of offspring. Raised in a sterile environment, such piglets are vital in providing clues as to how the immune system develops. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Three different shots of soup. (Campbells' Vegetable, Cream of Broccoli or Chicken Noodle). Shown with their respective cans. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Domestic species are those that breed close to human habitation. Tin cans in open dumps containing water may also contain larvae of any of the three domestic species including Culex quinquefasciatus, Culex pipiens, and Aedes aegypti. Credit: CDC.

Aedes aegypti mosquito breeding site in cans under legs of food vending machine, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: CDC.

The bugs were so big they crushed the OFF cans. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Beginning of the Alaska King Crab fishery. Meat from one crab is sufficient to fill several cans. Scientists of the Fish and Wildlife Service, a forerunner of today's NMFS, showed where to catch crabs and helped develop satisfactory canning methods. King crab being shown by Captain Trafton on the ship DOROTHY. F&W - 12,476. Credit: Fisheries.

Soldering room at sardine cannery, Eastport, Maine Solderers sealing the cans From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Bathing room at sardine cannery, Eastport, Maine Bathing vats at the left; men at right venting cans From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 57, Paris, France. : Garbage is kept in cans and sold to a farmer, the proceeds are given to the mess fund. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Army. Base Hospital No. 94, Pruniers, France. : Garbage cans. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The fires were burning in camp stoves, in the stoves made of kerosene cans and of sheets of metal

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Elevate hay, woodpiles and garbage cans to eliminate possible nesting sites. (references)

Drink only bottled or boiled (1 minute) water or carbonated (bubbly) drinks in cans or bottles. (references)

Make sure that your trash cans and pet foods are secured so that they do not attract wild animals. (references)

Business

Beer cans manufactured in America typically are given only one coating, but in Japan, two coatings are normally expected by Japanese end users. (references)

In addition, Japanese end users very rarely buy dented cans. Care should be given from manufacture through the distribution chain to avoid denting. (references)

The Argentine overall packaging industry reached sales of US$5 billion during 1999, representing 1.5 percent of the Argentine GDP. The main packaging materials used were aluminum cans, PET packaging and aerosols, with an increased use of plastic, tin and polypropylene. (references)

Children

Cameroon

There were several credible stories of mothers (usually young, unemployed, and unmarried) abandoning newborns in streets, garbage cans, and pit toilets. (references)

Jordan

Selling newspapers, tissues, small food items, or gum, the vendors, along with the other children who pick through trash dumpsters to find recyclable cans to sell, sometimes are the sole source of income for their families. (references)

Civil Liberties

Vietnam

They later produced cans of gasoline and gasoline-soaked clothing as evidence. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

Best sales prospects include machinery for filling, closing, sealing, capsuling or labeling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery for packing pasta, automatic strapping, binding, and sealing machinery; and filling and labeling machinery. (references)

Trade

Bangladesh

Milk food can be imported in cans and in bulk. (references)

Germany

It is expected that beginning January 2002, German retailers will have to request a deposit for disposable or "one-way" drink packages, i.e., soft drink or beer cans. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

Strikers reacted by throwing rocks and cans at police, injuring five policemen. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "CANS": beer-cans, jerry-cans.

Danish

roeget laks i daaser (smoked salmon in cans), man ser ogsaa flydefigurer paa plade,der er poleret ved koldvalsning og derefter fortinnet,f.eks.omkring bogstaver og tegn,der er stemplet i konservesdaaser (for example around letters and signs pressed into preserved food cans, stretcher strains are likewise found on sheet polished by cold rolling and then tinned), malkemaskiner uden malkespande,der afleverer maelken direkte i én eller flere transportspande,beskytter maelken mod forurening fra partikler i staldluften (delivering the milk straight into cans or sets of cans, milking machinery, prevent milk contamination from the air in the cowshed, without pails). (various references)

Dutch

melkmachines zonder melkemmers,die de melk direct in bussen of bussenbatterijen storten voorkomen verontreiniging van de melk door de stallucht (delivering the milk straight into cans or sets of cans, milking machinery, prevent milk contamination from the air in the cowshed, without pails), enkel gerookte zalm in blik (smoked salmon in cans), de vloeifiguren zijn ook zichtbaar op platen die door koudwalsen gepolijst zijn en vervolgens vertind,zoals bijvoorbeeld rond letters en merken die in conservenblikjes zijn geperst (for example around letters and signs pressed into preserved food cans, stretcher strains are likewise found on sheet polished by cold rolling and then tinned), Besluit Chloorfluornethanen in spuitbussen (Chlorofluormethanes in Aerosols Sprays Cans Decree). (various references)

French

saumon simplement fumé en boîtes (smoked salmon in cans), la vermiculure se voit également sur les tôles polies par laminage à froid, puis étamées, par exemple autour des lettres et signes emboutis sur les boîtes de conserves (for example around letters and signs pressed into preserved food cans), des machines à traire pour la traite in churn combine-recorder,c'est-à-dire non dans un pot trayeur mais directement dans des bidons ou des batteries de bidons,empêchent la pollution du lait par les germes de l'atmosphère de l'étable (delivering the milk straight into cans or sets of cans), Décret sur l'utilisation des chlorofluorméthanes dans les récipients aérosols (Chlorofluormethanes in Aerosols Sprays Cans Decree). (various references)

German

Blechbüchsen (tins), Büchsen. (various references)

Greek 

απλώς καπνιστός σολομός σε κουτιά (smoked salmon in cans), οι γραμμές ρευστότητας παρατηρούνται επίσης επάνω σε λεπτά ελάσματα τα οποία ελάσσονται εν ψυχρώ και στην συνέχεια επικασσιτερώνονται όπ� (for example around letters and signs pressed into preserved food cans), οι αλμεκτικές μηχανές για άλμεξη με κατ'ευθείαν συλλογή στα δοχεία ή στην συστοιχία των δοχείων μεταφοράς,εμποδίζουν την μόλυνση του γάλακ (delivering the milk straight into cans or sets of cans). (various references)

Indonesian

kalengan (canned, in cans). (various references)

Italian

salmone in scatola semplicemente affumicato (smoked salmon in cans), le mungitrici che versano il latte senza secchio direttamente nei bidoni o in gruppo di bidoni,evitano la polluzione del latte con i germi della stalla (delivering the milk straight into cans or sets of cans, milking machinery, prevent milk contamination from the air in the cowshed, without pails), Le linee di scorrimento si osservano anche nelle lamiere laminate a lucido e poi stagnate, come ad esempio intorno a lettere o segni impressi sulle scatole dei cibi in conserva (for example around letters and signs pressed into preserved food cans, stretcher strains are likewise found on sheet polished by cold rolling and then tinned). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

糸電話 (telephone made from two cans and a piece of string), 缶詰　 (canned goods, canning, packing in cans, tin can). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いとでんわ (telephone made from two cans and a piece of string). (various references)

Pig Latin

anscay.(various references)

Portuguese

latas. (various references)

Spanish

las latas. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "CANS": cansful, canso, cansos, canst. (additional references)

Words ending with "CANS": ashcans, barbicans, billycans, cancans, cooncans, glucans, glycans, glycosaminoglycans, indicans, jerricans, jerrycans, malacostracans, oilcans, pecans, pelicans, pemicans, pemmicans, peptidoglycans, proteoglycans, publicans, republicans, scans, toucans. (additional references)

Words containing "CANS": scansion, scansions. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CANS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acsni, caan, cacs, cags, cains, cais, canas, canb, cand, Canh, cani, cann, cannst, cano, canp, canso, Canu, cany, canzo, caos, carns, cas, Caunes, caus, cawn, cena, Cenis, cens, censa, censi, Censu, cenus, cesn, Chans, cianrs, cians, cins, Civs, cnac, Cnas, cnst, cnw, conns, conq, consa, consc, consi, conso, consp, consv, consy, crans, Cuanza, Cunes, cuns, cyanus, kanes, Kans, koans, mcans, nacs, nacss, zans. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scan.

-1 letter: can, sac.

-2 letters: an, as, na.

+1 letter: acnes, cains, canes, canso, canst, cants, carns, clans, cyans, narcs, scans, scant, scena, snack.

+2 letters: acinus, acorns, actins, anisic, antics, ascend, ascent, ashcan, bacons, bancos, cabins, cairns, canals, caners, canids, cannas, canoes, canons, cansos, cantos, cantus, canvas, capons, casein, casern, casing, casini, casino, centas, chains, changs, chants, chinas, clangs, clanks, cleans, congas, cotans, cranes, cranks, dances, enacts, encase, encash, francs, gascon, hances, incase, knacks, lances, linacs, macons, manics, mascon, nachas, naches, nachos, nacres, nances, nancys, narcos, nastic, nicads, oceans, octans, panics, pecans, racons, rances, sancta, scants, scanty, scenas, seance, secant, seneca, siccan, snacks, snatch, socman, stance, stanch, uncaps, uncase, usance, vincas.