Canister

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A usually cylindrical storage container, especially:
  • n. A box or can of thin metal or plastic used for holding dry foodstuffs or cooking ingredients, such as flour or sugar.
  • n. A small plastic container used for storing a roll of film.
  • n. A metal container that holds pressurized gas, as one containing tear gas that explodes on impact or one containing oxygen as part of a breathing apparatus.
  • n. A metallic cylinder packed with shot that scatter upon discharge from a cannon, formerly used as an antipersonnel round.
  • n. Such cylinders, or the shot used in such cylinders, considered as a group.
  • n. The part of a gas mask that contains the filter for removing toxic agents from the air.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).
  • n. Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.
  • n. A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.
  • n. A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Properly, a small basket made of reeds, twigs, or the like.
  • n. A small box or case for tea, coffee, etc.
  • n. In the Roman Catholic Church, the metallic vessel used to contain the altar-breads or wafers before consecration. See altar-bread.
  • n. Canister-shot.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm
  • n. metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ammunition    ammo    container   
    Variant
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bannister    banister    bannister    cannister   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    container    cans    cylinder    pellet    grenade    cartridge    keg    jug    crate    tank