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Coffee Can

Definition: Coffee Can

Coffee Can

Noun

1. A can for storing ground coffee.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: Coffee Can

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Uhh, Malcolm, you didn't find that coffee can in the garage by any chance, did you? (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

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

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Image Slideshow: Coffee Can

Computer Images:
Coffee Can

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Non-Fiction Usage: Coffee Can

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Health

When the bat lands, approach it slowly and place a box or coffee can over it. Slide the cardboard under the container to trap the bat inside. (references)

Much like the way coffee can stimulate the nervous system, certain naturally occurring body chemicals trigger immune cells to grow and divide. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: Coffee Can

Language Translations for "coffee can"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

kávékiöntő (cona, pitcher). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

offeecay ancay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Coffee Can

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-f-f-n-o"

-2 letters: offence.

-3 letters: coffee, efface, enface.

-4 letters: canoe, fence, ocean.

-5 letters: acne, aeon, cafe, caff, cane, ceca, coca, coff, cone, face, fane, fano, once.

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Alternative Orthography: Coffee Can


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 66 66 65 65      43 61 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100101 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#102 &#102 &#101 &#101 &#32 &#67 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0066 0066 0065 0065      0043 0061 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3781727271712376780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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