different between cannel vs canned

English

Noun

cannel (countable and uncountable, plural cannels)

1. A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.

   • Gerald was enthusiastic. After a while they shook hands, it being time to separate. And for a long time Selwyn sat there alone in the visitors’ room, absent-eyed, facing the blazing fire of cannel coal.

Anagrams

• Lencan

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kænd/
• Rhymes: -ænd

Adjective

canned (not comparable)

1. Preserved in cans.

2. (by extension) Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass produced, or lacking originality or customization.
   • 1998, Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer

     Unfortunately, some of the canned code, which Visual C++ gives to you when creating an application, is not CE aware and gives you compile errors.

   • 2005, James Howard Kunstler — The Long Emergency

     The vested owners of all those sun-drenched tract houses may stick around for a while and fight over the region, perhaps thinking that they are reenacting the great historical dramas of the nineteenth century—such is the long-term effect of canned entertainment on the collective imagi­nation.

3. (slang) Drunk.
4. Terminated, fired from a job.

Synonyms

• (preserved in cans): tinned
• (prepared or standard): boilerplate, stock
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Antonyms

• (preserved in cans): dried

Derived terms

• (prepared or standard): canned laughter
• canned opener

Translations

Verb

canned

1. simple past tense and past participle of can

Anagrams

• dancen, nanced