different between canister vs ganister

English

Etymology

From Middle English canister, canustyr, a borrowing from Latin canistrum.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæn?st?/

Noun

canister (plural canisters)

1. A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).
2. Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.
3. A special short range antipersonnel projectile consisting of a casing of light metal, loaded with preformed submissiles such as flechettes or steel balls. The casing is designed to open just beyond the muzzle of the weapon, dispersing the submissiles.
4. A component of canister type protective mask containing a mechanical filter and chemical filling to filter, neutralize and/or absorb toxic chemical, biological and radiological agents.
5. A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.

Descendants

• ? Irish: ceanastar

Translations

Verb

canister (third-person singular simple present canisters, present participle canistering, simple past and past participle canistered)

1. (transitive) To pack into a canister.

Anagrams

• Certains, Cestrian, Cretians, anticers, cisterna, creatins, nacrites, scantier, tercians

English

Alternative forms

• gannister

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æn?st?(?)/

Noun

ganister (countable and uncountable, plural ganisters)

1. A hard, fine-grained sandstone, used in manufacturing silica bricks for lining furnaces.
   • 1991,, Town of Claysburg - Refractories Company Town , Historic American Buildings Survey, page 2:

     Like those in southern Huntingdon County, the ridges of southern Blair County were often covered with ganister.

Translations

Anagrams

• Tangiers, Tasering, Tigranes, angriest, angrites, angstier, astringe, gantries, granites, inert gas, ingrates, rangiest, reasting, stearing, tasering, tearings