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Canner
canner
canner
See also: Canner
English
Noun
canner (plural canners)
- Someone or something which cans.
- 1937, Technology Review (volume 40, page 100)
- One machine in which Mr. Taylor takes special pride is a salmon canner, which engulfs a whole salmon, decapitates and decaudates it, skins it, blows out its viscera, cuts it into pieces, deposits them in the can, sterilizes them […]
- 1937, Technology Review (volume 40, page 100)
- A large pot used for processing jars when preserving food, either in a boiling water bath or by capturing steam to elevate the pressure and temperature.
- (US, slang) Someone who lives off container deposit refunds from recycling.
Quotations
One who lives off container deposits
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- 2007, Jon Mooallem, The Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration, New York Times, May 27, 2007, p. 7:
- Yet many canners told me that they can easily earn a daily wage of 20 or 30 dollars; each then recycles upward of 600 containers every day.
- 2009, Camilo Jose Vergara, 125th and Lex: The most complicated, disturbing, and lively intersection in New York City. A photo essay., Slate.com, December 3, 2009:
- Among the crowds are ordinary working people shopping at the Pathmark, as well as down-and-out "canners" bringing their cans and bottles to the recycling station on East 124th Street.
French
Verb
canner
Conjugation
Conjugation of canner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | canner | avoir canné | |||||
| gerund | en cannant | en ayant canné | |||||
| present participle | cannant /ka.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | canné /ka.ne/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | canne /kan/ |
cannes /kan/ |
canne /kan/ |
cannons /ka.nɔ̃/ |
cannez /ka.ne/ |
cannent /kan/ |
| imperfect | cannais /ka.nɛ/ |
cannais /ka.nɛ/ |
cannait /ka.nɛ/ |
cannions /ka.njɔ̃/ |
canniez /ka.nje/ |
cannaient /ka.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | cannai /ka.ne/ |
cannas /ka.na/ |
canna /ka.na/ |
cannâmes /ka.nam/ |
cannâtes /ka.nat/ |
cannèrent /ka.nɛʁ/ |
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| future | cannerai /kan.ʁe/ |
canneras /kan.ʁa/ |
cannera /kan.ʁa/ |
cannerons /kan.ʁɔ̃/ |
cannerez /kan.ʁe/ |
canneront /kan.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | cannerais /kan.ʁɛ/ |
cannerais /kan.ʁɛ/ |
cannerait /kan.ʁɛ/ |
cannerions /ka.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
canneriez /ka.nə.ʁje/ |
canneraient /kan.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | canne /kan/ |
cannes /kan/ |
canne /kan/ |
cannions /ka.njɔ̃/ |
canniez /ka.nje/ |
cannent /kan/ |
| imperfect1 |
cannasse /ka.nas/ |
cannasses /ka.nas/ |
cannât /ka.na/ |
cannassions /ka.na.sjɔ̃/ |
cannassiez /ka.na.sje/ |
cannassent /ka.nas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | canne /kan/ |
— | cannons /ka.nɔ̃/ |
cannez /ka.ne/ |
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Synonyms
- (to can): mettre en conserve
- (to die): mourir, clamser, clamecer, passer l'arme à gauche