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Definition: Canned |
CannedAdjective1. Recorded for broadcast; "a transcribed announcement"; (`canned' is used informally as in "canned laughter"). 2. Sealed in a can or jar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "canned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
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Electrical Engineering | A term applied to a machine in which specified parts are completely enclosed and sealed against a fluid by a metal sheath. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CannedSynonyms: tinned (adj), transcribed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Preservation | Prophylaxis; preserver, preservative, additive; antibiotics, antifungals, biocide; hygiastics, hygiantics; cover, drugget; cordon sanitaire; canning; ensilage; tinned goods, canned goods. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Canned |
| English words defined with "canned": albacore, anchovy ♦ black olive, brisling ♦ cannery, C-ration ♦ fresh ♦ Japanese crab ♦ long-fin tunny ♦ pilchard, pineapple juice ♦ ripe olive ♦ sardine, sild, sprat ♦ Thunnus alalunga, tomato juice, tuna fish salad, tuna salad ♦ V-8 juice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "canned": BOHEMIA ♦ canned motor pump, canned pump, Caribbean Basin Initiative, CHEMIST, FOOD, Commodity Supplemental Food Program, cooker, syrup ♦ ELIZA ♦ flat sour, flat sour spoilage, Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations ♦ LACMELLEA FLORIBUNDA ♦ Nisin ♦ PALLETIZER OPERATOR I, PASTEURIZER, Peas, precooked dish, prepared food, processed pea ♦ RETORT OPERATOR ♦ SALVAGE INSPECTOR, sauce maker, sheathed pump, SPICE MIXER, STERILIZER OPERATOR, SYRUP MAKER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "canned": Bully. (references) |
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Screenplays | We've got canned fruits and vegetables, canned fish and meats, hot and cold syrups, Post Toasties, Corn Flakes, Sugar Puffs, Rice Krispies, Oatmeal and Cream of Wheat (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) Yeah, I don't have anybody anymore, my brother and sister got canned and they left town, and then my parents went and died on me. (Home for the Holidays; writing credit: W.D. Richter) Daddy, Tina Hobbs said you were getting canned, so I put gum in her hair (Life's Work; writing credit: Warren Bell; Alana Burgi) | |
Clever | My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned because I couldn't concentrate. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Canned Dog Feud (1965) Comedy Central Canned Ham (1996) Canned Carrott (1990) | |
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![]() | Green beans, fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked and canned goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmer's Market held on a USDA parking lot every Friday during the growing season. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Canned Goods . Credit: USDA. |
![]() | Fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked and canned goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmer's Market held on a USDA parking lot every Friday during the growing season. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Petit Pan Squash. Fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked and canned goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmer's Market held on a USDA parking lot every Friday during the growing season. Credit: USDA. |
![]() | A 4-H Club member storing the food canned from the vegetables grown in her garden, Rockbridge County, Va. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Packing canned salmon into cases. Columbia River Packing Association, Astoria, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Stacks of canned salmon. Columbia River Packing Association, Astoria, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Wife of Jim Norris with canned goods, Pie Town, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Canned and bottled foods. Display of canned and bottled foods. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Kitchen of the camp building at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with neatly arranged wall shelves holding dishes, canned foods, and other provisions. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cat food" by Matty And Sharon Commentary: "Stack of canned cat food." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Alistair Cooke | Canned music is like audible wallpaper. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And four pears peeled and cut in half, cooked and canned, still cost fifteen cents |
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Health | Most canned foods and frozen dinners contain large amounts of sodium. (references) | |
Mixing canned cream soups with milk or half-and-half rather than water. (references) | ||
This is the bacterium that occurs in improperly canned foods and honey. (references) | ||
Business | With regard to beer packaging, canned beer accounts for approximately half of the Japanese market. (references) | |
Cargo handled at Songkhla port includes mainly frozen seafood, rubber, canned foods, and latex products. (references) | ||
The main reason for canned beers' popularity is the presence of large numbers of beer vending machines in Japan. (references) | ||
Economic History | Seychelles | Major exports are canned tuna, fish, and frozen shrimp. (references) |
Maldives | Canned tuna and dried fish exports accounted for 53% of all marine product exports. (references) | |
China | The amount of canned beef imports has increased while frozen and chilled exports have dropped. (references) | |
Political Economy | MALAYSIA | Duties for processed and high value products, such as canned fruit, snack foods, and many other processed foods, range between 20 and 30 percent. (references) |
GREECE | However, some agricultural products (most notably cotton, olive oil, tobacco, cereals, canned peaches, and certain other fruits and vegetables) receive production subsidies from the EU which enhance their export competitiveness. (references) | |
Trade | New Zealand | No poultry meat (except canned) can be imported into New Zealand. (references) |
Travel | Kenya | With the lifting of import controls, a variety of canned and prepared foods are available. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Canned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 84.52% of the time. "Canned" is used about 168 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 84.52% | 142 | 26,554 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 7.14% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 5.36% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.98% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 168 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "canned": canned and bottled food ♦ canned coal ♦ canned food ♦ canned foods ♦ canned fruit ♦ canned goods ♦ canned meat ♦ canned milk ♦ canned motor pump ♦ canned music ♦ canned pump ♦ canned sardines ♦ canned software. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "canned": badly-canned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "canned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i rrumbullosur (pickled, plastered), i regjistruar (on record, proprietary, registered), i konservuar (potted, tinned). (various references) | |
Arabic | معلب (packaged, tinned), سكران (boozer, boozy, drunk, drunken, flat, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, loaded, pickled, pissed, plastered, screwed up, squiffy, tanked, tipsy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | консервиран (potted, preserved, tinned), приготвен предварително. (various references) | |
Chinese | 装于罐中 (Canning). (various references) | |
Czech | konzervovaný. (various references) | |
Danish | metalkapslet. (various references) | |
Dutch | ingeblikt. (various references) | |
Farsi | مست باده , درقوطی کنسروشده . (various references) | |
Finnish | umpioitu. (various references) | |
French | machine chemisée, enregistré, en conserve, en boîte, dans une boîte, bourré. (various references) | |
German | konservierte, betrunkenen (drunks). (various references) | |
Greek | κονσερβοποιημένοσ, συσκευασμένοσ εντόσ τενεκέδων, μηχανή με μεταλλική θωράκιση, φωνογραφημένοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כבוש (capture, conquest, occupation, occupied, pickled, preserved, pressed, subjugation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | konzervált (preserved), eltett (preserved). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kalengan (in cans). (various references) | |
Italian | macchina inscatolata, in scatola (tinned). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蟹缶 (canned crab), 蠏缶 (canned crab), 罐詰め (canned goods, canning, packing, tin can), 缶詰 (canned goods, canning, packing in cans, tin can), 缶詰め (canned goods, canning, packing, tin can), 缶詰 (canned goods, canning, packing, tin can), 缶ビール (can of beer, canned beer), 缶ジュース (a can of juice, canned juice), 牛缶 (canned beef). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎゅうかん (canned beef), かにかん (canned crab), かんビール (can of beer, canned beer), かんづめ (canned goods, canning, packing, tin can), かんジュース (a can of juice, canned juice). (various references) | |
Korean | 통조림으로 만드는. (various references) | |
Manx | stainnit (tinned, tin-plated), scooyrit (drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, lit up, oiled, pickled, plastered, stoned), curneenit, ayns stainney. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | annedcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | máquina encamisada, enlatado (tinned), em conserva (preserved). (various references) | |
Romanian | conservat în cutii de conserve, conservat (bottled, conserved, preserved, salt, tinned). (various references) | |
Russian | разлитый в бидоны, консервированный;искусственный, консервированный (potted, preserved). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | konzerviran (tinned). (various references) | |
Spanish | enlatado (can filling, canning, tin packing, tinning). (various references) | |
Swedish | packad (jammed, loaded, packaged, packed, plastered, stewed, stoned, tiddley, tiddly, tight, zipped), på burk (tinned), konserverad (corned, tinned), insvetsad, berusad (bagged, besotted, drunk, drunken, high, inebriate, intoxicated, out, pixilated, sloshed, sodden, tipsy, well oiled), asfull (blotto, pissed, smashed, stinking, tight). (various references) | |
Turkish | zom, sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), kutu (bin, box, can, carton, cartridge, case, cassette, chest, coffer, repository), konservelenmiş, konserve (bottled food, canned food, preserve, preserves, tinned), kaydedilmiş (enrolled, inscribed, listed, recorded, registired, saved), banda alınmış, önceden söylenmiş olan. (various references) | |
Turkmen | konserw (r) (canned foods). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | консервований (potted, preserved), механічно зафіксований, п'яний (banged, blind drunk, boiled, boozy, disguised, drunk, drunken, groggy, inebriate, intoxicate, lush, malty, noggy, pickled, pie-eyed, pizz, plastered, raddled, screwed, sodden, soused, sozzled, sozzly, under the table, vinous, wall eyed, wet, winy, woozy, zigzag). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | say bí tỉ (blink, premise, soused), được đóng hộp được ghi vào băng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "canned": scanned. (additional references) | |
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"Canned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Canedy, canem, canen, canged, Canhedo, canidi, canne, cannen, cannes, canrd, Cennydd, cined, cunde, cyned, Cynfedw, kanne, sanned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "canned" (pronounced ka"nd) |
| 4 | k a" n d | scanned. |
| 3 | -a" n d | and, band, banned, bland, brand, command, demand, disband, land, expand, fanned, firsthand, gland, grand, hand, manned, meadowland, misunderstand, offhand, outmanned, panned, planned, rand, remand, sand, spanned, stand, strand, tanned, understand, unmanned, unplanned, withstand. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-n-n" | |
-1 letter: acned, caned, dance, nance. | |
-2 letters: aced, acne, cade, cane, dace, dean. | |
-3 letters: ace, and, ane, cad, can, den, end, nae, nan. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, an, de, ed, en, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-n-n" | |
+1 letter: candent, nuanced, scanned. | |
+2 letters: cannoned, cantoned, cayenned, crannied, decennia, enhanced, enneadic, financed, incanted, neckband, nondance, ordnance, penanced, scandent, tendance. | |
+3 letters: abundance, anhedonic, announced, ascendant, ascendent, ascending, benchland, cadencing, candlenut, candlepin, cannonade, canonised, canonized, celandine, channeled, coannexed, colonnade, contained, deaconing, decanting, decennial, dominance, enchained, enchanted, endurance, entranced, hindrance, instanced, mendicant, neckbands, nicknamed, nondancer, nondances, ordinance, ordnances, pinnacled, tendances, transcend, unchained, unchanged, uncleaned. | |
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