Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
can . - An obsolete form of
can . - noun Abbreviations of Kansas.
- noun In Holland, the name given to the liter when used as a measure of capacity for liquids.
- noun In Java, a measure of capacity equal to 0.35 of a United States gallon.
- noun An obsolete form of
khan .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To know; to ken.
- noun See
khan .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
khan .
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Examples
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Håkan is the very strange man who lives with Eli, doing absolutely everything he can to make her look at him, to touch him; for those rare moments when he gets to see her naked, they are a delight.
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Håkan is jealous of Oskar and the victims that Eli attacks because they get to be closer to him than he does.
Vampirism turns practical in “Let the Right One In” » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Then Håkan is caught trying to take another victim.
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Then Håkan is caught trying to take another victim.
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Håkan is the very strange man who lives with Eli, doing absolutely everything he can to make her look at him, to touch him; for those rare moments when he gets to see her naked, they are a delight.
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Ik zou dus graag dat gesigneerde exemplaar willen ontvangen, zodat ik gezellig met mijn vriendin kan kleten over je avonturen in Parijs!
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Een uniforme manier verzinnen waarop dit wel kan is bijzonder lastig, maar slimme mensen zijn ermee [...]
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... hier is my theorie (in Engels, nie omdat ek dit nie in Afrikaans kan neerskryf nie maar omdat die ander nie sal verstaan nie):
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The piece of wisdom he put forth as his own is called a kanôn (“rule”).
Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006
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West takes this as a reference to the monochord, which was called the kanôn, used to determine and illustrate the numerical ratios, which were related to the concordant intervals (1992, 240).
Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006
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