Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. The negative form of can1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A way of writing can not, due to the silencing in pronunciation of one of the n′ s.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two.
Etymologies
- can + not (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He was not, however, awarded the WWE Championship because the title cannot change hands on a count-out.”
“The only thing that Obama can offer Hillary that Mccain cannot is VP, but I don't think she wants it unless she thinks it is for the party's sake.”
“If we considerpast practices and customs, however, the term cannot mean the typeof sweeping revisions of the Mass ritual and the alteration ofliturgical texts that we are now experiencing.”
“Second, the term cannot include rights that are not “fundamental.””
The Volokh Conspiracy » Professors’ Amicus Brief Supporting Incorporation of the Second Amendment
“But even there the term cannot be traced back very”
“Leave of absence during the term cannot therefore be granted, except for the most urgent reasons.”
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
“But, although I rejoice in the fact, I cannot stand against the logic of the scholar who argues that the term cannot be defended upon scientific principles.”
“The term cannot be construed as meaning any of the following:”
“Also in this sense the term cannot be traced farther back than the eleventh century.”
“The methods and ideas of each rival are so different that the title cannot be accorded to both.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cannot’.
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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ttobba's Words
graph, amore, labrador, sun, boreal, norsk, coffee, cafe, pekin, peking, train, rail and 97 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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words misused at work
words people use incorrectly or just misspell
stanchion, butte, peak, form, quiescent, pique, be, cellophane, there, they're, their, cannot and 16 more...
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jenlight's Words
jenlight, absurd, dada, pataphysics, thirteen, seven, beldam, onymous, smellfeast, borborygmi, orly, zomg and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cannot.
yarb I try to lift my arms. Cannot.
- Peter Reading, C, 1984 Sep 28, 2008