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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
canned
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
canned (also tinned British English)
▪ She heated up some tinned soup.
tinned/canned
▪ Do canned vegetables have as many vitamins as fresh ones?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
food
▪ Neither does canned food provide an environmentally friendly option for preserving food.
▪ For a complete and balanced meal they must be fed with an equal volume of canned food and mixer.
▪ They've launched an appeal to send canned food, medicine and toys to the needy.
▪ The deep hulls of the Hokule'a were loaded with dried and canned food and three hundred one-gallon containers of water.
▪ You can buy special canned foods for this purpose.
▪ And cut down on crisps, salted meat, salted fish and processed canned foods.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
canned peaches
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also, buying canned or frozen food rather than fresh food cuts down our vitamin intake by as much as 25-30 percent.
▪ Fights erupted outside supermarkets as shoppers battled for parking spaces in desperate efforts to stock up with canned goods.
▪ For a complete and balanced meal they must be fed with an equal volume of canned food and mixer.
▪ If you don't have fresh fruit to hand, just use an equal weight of canned or frozen fruit instead.
▪ Neither does canned food provide an environmentally friendly option for preserving food.
▪ Particularly popular with customers were the canned nuts, home remedies, pizzas, pasta, cereals and canned pet foods range.
▪ Spread with a layer of softened chocolate ice cream and some drained, chopped, canned cherries.
▪ Use less meat than the stated quantity and add canned beans to reduce fat content.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
canned

canned \canned\ adj.

  1. Recorded; in contrast with live; -- used of sound or video broadcasts.

    Syn: filmed, taped, tape-recorded.

  2. Sealed in a can or jar.

    Syn: tinned.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
canned

1859, "put up in a can," past participle adjective from can (v.2). Figuratively, of music, from 1904, originally a contemptuous term (associated with John Philip Sousa) for music played by automatic instruments.

Wiktionary
canned
  1. 1 Preserved in cans. 2 (context slang English) drunk. 3 Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass produced, or lacking originality or customization. v

  2. (en-pastcan)

WordNet
can
  1. n. airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. [syn: tin, tin can]

  2. the quantity contained in a can [syn: canful]

  3. a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can buoy]

  4. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]

  5. a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne]

  6. a room equipped with toilet facilities [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, john, privy, bathroom]

  7. [also: canning, canned]

canned
  1. adj. recorded for broadcast; "a transcribed announcement"; "canned laughter" [syn: transcribed]

  2. sealed in a can or jar [syn: tinned]

canned

See can

can
  1. v. preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty" [syn: tin, put up]

  2. terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: fire, give notice, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: hire]

  3. [also: canning, canned]

Wikipedia
Canned

The term canned may refer to:

Usage examples of "canned".

From his occasional missteps and slurred speech, it was apparent he had ladled out applejack for himself from the canned heat wagon.

Exeter to refuel and pick up some emergency avgas, canned aviation fuel.

As a result the latter gave an order, and in another minute a file of French bluejackets, each with a case of canned lobster on his shoulder, was marching towards the door.

Sample Menu: The Clear Camel Piss Soup with boiled Earth Worms The Filet of Sun-Ripened Sting Ray basted with Eau de Cologne and garnished with nettles The After-Birth Supreme de Boeuf, cooked in drained crank case oil, served with a piquant sauce of rotten egg yolks and crushed bed bugs The Limburger Cheese sugar cured in diabetic orine doused in Canned Heat Flamboyant.

Vive took it in: a botfly nearby, spewing canned warnings about orderly dispersal.

Almost Home cookies, ice cream, a Pepperidge Farm frozen chocolate cake, and four cans of canned chocolate frosting to be eaten with a large spoon.

The kitchen counters were crowded with canned goods, boxes of cereal and crackers, packages of paper napkins, toilet tissue, paper towels, and cleaning products.

I sold it to a company manufacturing canned foods and they used it for an advertisement, but the daimyo saw it in a magazine and I was told not to model anymore.

The canned laughter of TV comedy shows is one variety of faked data of this sort, but there is a great deal more, and much of the fakery is strikingly obvious.

The rest of the store had shelves and tables that sold canned goods and frypans and fishing gear and toilet paper and insect repellent and souvenir mugs shaped like Smokey the Bear.

They gets the company fare of pinto beans and grits and cornmeal and either canned tomatoes or canned peaches.

Three narrow aisles extend to the left of the door, offering the usual roadside merchandise: every imaginable snack food, the basic patent medicines, magazines, paperback books, postcards, novelty items designed to hang from rearview mirrors, and selected canned goods that sell to campers and to people, like Vess, who travel in homes on wheels.

The goods, mostly canned food and reusable objects, filtered through Little America, where Kellogg and his Food Rangers co-ordinated distribution.

We met for a drink in one of those oxblood pubs on the East Side where the laughter and tinkling chatter seemed canned, subject to volume control.

I found some pignolia nuts and some canned pineapple, and some garlic and a can of mandarin oranges.