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Definition: Canted |
CantedAdjective1. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "canted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Note: Canted \Cant"ed\, adjective. [From 2d Cant.]. (references) |
Synonyms: CantedSynonyms: atilt (adj), leaning (adj), tilted (adj), tipped (adj). (additional references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Conducting flight operations in the Virginia Capes area on 14 January 1953, "to obtain a critical evaluation of the operational suitability of canted flight decks as a primary means of operating carrier aircraft" (quoted from the original caption). Antietam had just returned to service following installation of the then-experimental angled ("canted") flight deck. A F9F "Panther" jet fighter has just left the angled deck, just forward of her midships elevator. Other planes (all jet fighters) parked on deck include F9F "Cougars" (forward), F2H "Banshees" and an FJ "Fury" (immediately forward of the ship's island). Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Canted" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 37.50% of the time. "Canted" is used about 8 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 37.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 37.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "canted": Canted column. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
canted fix front sight sks | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "canted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i rrëzuar (canting, defeated). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скосен (oblique). (various references) | |
French | biseaute. (various references) | |
German | heuchelte, geheuchelt (feigned, sham), abgeschrägt (chamfered, sloped). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antedcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | oblíquo (aslant, aslope, asquint, awry, sideling, sidelong, skew, slanting, sloping, wry), inclinado (apt, aslope, atilt, bent, biased, declivous, downhill, inclinable, incumbent, leaning, minded, oblique, pendulous, prone, ready, slanting, sloping, superabundant), enviesado (oblique, skew, slanting). (various references) | |
Russian | скошенный. (various references) | |
Swedish | snedställd (cant), sluttad. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "canted": decanted, descanted, discanted, incanted, recanted, scanted. (additional references) | |
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"Canted" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: canate, canet, Canete, canette, canged, Canhedo, cantada, Cantade, cantando, Cantes, canti, cantid, Cantidio, cantii, Cantil, cantred, casted, catted, Cenred, Centel, conted, Crantit, Cynfedw, ganted, yanted. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cadent, decant. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-n-t" | |
-1 letter: acned, acted, anted, cadet, caned, dance, enact. | |
-2 letters: aced, acne, ante, cade, cane, cant, cate, cent, dace, date, dean, dent, etna, neat, tace, tend. | |
-3 letters: ace, act, and, ane, ant, ate, cad, can, cat, den, eat, end, eta, nae, net, tad, tae, tan, tea, ted, ten. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, an, at, de, ed, en. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-n-t" | |
+1 letter: candent, chanted, decants, descant, enacted, pandect, scanted, tacnode, tranced, unacted. | |
+2 letters: abducent, accented, accident, actinide, adducent, adjacent, aduncate, anecdota, anecdote, antecede, anticked, cantered, cantoned, cartoned, catenoid, chaunted, coattend, crenated, ctenidia, cuneated, decadent, decanted, decanter, descants, dicentra, distance, endocast, incanted, incudate, indicate, lanceted, nictated, outdance, pandects, pedantic, recanted, scandent, snatched, stanched, tacnodes, tendance, uncoated, uncrated, underact, untacked, untraced. | |
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