Can vs. May

Difference Between Can and May
Can➦
be able to
he can't afford it
they can run fast
I could hear footsteps
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May➦
May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and the third of seven months to have a length of 31 days. May is a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Can➦
be permitted to
you can use the phone if you want to
nobody could legally drink on the premises
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May➦
expressing possibility
that may be true
he may well win
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Can➦
used to request someone to do something
can you open the window?
can't you leave me alone?
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May➦
used to ask for or to give permission
may I ask a few questions?
you may confirm my identity with your Case Officer, if you wish
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Can➦
preserve (food) in a can
sardines and anchovies are worth the extra money if canned in olive oil
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May➦
expressing a wish or hope
may she rest in peace
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Can➦
dismiss from a job
he was canned because of a tiff over promotion
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May➦
the fifth month of the year, in the northern hemisphere usually considered the last month of spring
the full system was deployed last May
the new model makes its showroom debut in May
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Can➦
a cylindrical metal container
a can of paint
a petrol can
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May➦
A hawthorn or its blossoms.
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Can➦
prison
our friends will get a year or two in the can
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May➦
The fifth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar. See Table at calendar.
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Can➦
the toilet
she walks in and has to use the can
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May➦
The springtime of life; youth.
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Can➦
headphones.
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May➦
The celebration of May Day.
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Can➦
a woman's breasts.
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May➦
To be strong; to have power (over).
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Can➦
A usually cylindrical metal container.
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May➦
To be able; can.
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Can➦
An airtight container, usually made of tin-coated iron, in which foods or beverages are preserved.
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May➦
To be able to go.
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Can➦
The contents of such a container
ate a can of beans.
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May➦
To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
you may smoke outside;
may I sit there?
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Can➦
(Slang) A jail or prison.
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May➦
Expressing a present possibility; possibly.
he may be lying;
Schrödinger's cat may or may not be in the box
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Can➦
(Slang) A toilet or restroom.
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May➦
Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
may you win;
may the weather be sunny
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Can➦
(Slang) The buttocks.
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May➦
Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.
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Can➦
(Slang) A naval destroyer.
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May➦
To gather may, or flowers in general.
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Can➦
To seal in an airtight container for future use; preserve
canning peaches.
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May➦
To celebrate May Day.
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Can➦
(Slang) To make a recording of
can the audience's applause for a TV comedy show.
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May➦
The hawthorn bush or its blossoms.
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Can➦
To end the employment of; fire.
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May➦
(archaic) A maiden.
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Can➦
To put an end or stop to
canned the TV show after one season.
told the students to can the chatter.
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May➦
An auxiliary verb qualifying the meaning of another verb,
How may a man, said he, with idle speech,Be won to spoil the castle of his health!
For what he [the king] may do is of two kinds; what he may do as just, and what he may do as possible.
For of all sad words of tongue or penThe saddest are these: "It might have been."
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Can➦
To solicit cash donations for a charity or other organization such as a club or amateur sports team by holding out a can or other container in a public place.
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May➦
Liberty; permission; allowance.
Thou mayst be no longer steward.
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Can➦
To know how to; to be able to.
She can speak English, French, and German.
I can play football.
Can you remember your fifth birthday?
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May➦
Contingency or liability; possibility or probability.
Though what he learns he speaks, and may advanceSome general maxims, or be right by chance.
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Can➦
May; to be permitted or enabled to.
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework.
Can I use your pen?
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May➦
Modesty, courtesy, or concession, or a desire to soften a question or remark.
How old may Phillis be, you ask.
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Can➦
(modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
Can it be Friday already?
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
Animals can experience emotions.
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May➦
Desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction, and the like.
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Can➦
Used with verbs of perception.
Can you hear that?.
I can feel the baby moving inside me.
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May➦
A maiden.
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Can➦
To know.
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May➦
The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
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Can➦
To seal in a can.
They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists.
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May➦
The early part or springtime of life.
His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood.
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Can➦
To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
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May➦
The flowers of the hawthorn; - so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.
The palm and may make country houses gay.
Plumes that mocked the may.
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Can➦
To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
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May➦
The merrymaking of May Day.
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Can➦
To shut up.
Can your gob.
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May➦
the month following April and preceding June
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Can➦
To fire or dismiss an employee.
The boss canned him for speaking out.
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May➦
thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America
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Can➦
To hole the ball.
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Can➦
(transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
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Can➦
A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
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Can➦
A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
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Can➦
A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
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Can➦
A chamber pot, now a toilet or lavatory.
Shit or get off the can.
Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
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Can➦
Buttocks.
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Can➦
(slang) Jail or prison.
Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.
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Can➦
Headphones.
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Can➦
(archaic) A drinking cup.
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Can➦
(nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
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Can➦
A chimney pot.
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Can➦
An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
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Can➦
An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
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Can➦
A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
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Can➦
an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]
With gentle words he can faile gree.
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Can➦
A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids.
Fill the cup and fill can,Have a rouse before the morn.
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Can➦
A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can.
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Can➦
To preserve by putting in sealed cans
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Can➦
To know; to understand.
I can rimes of Rodin Hood.
I can no Latin, quod she.
Let the priest in surplice white,That defunctive music can.
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Can➦
To be able to do; to have power or influence.
The will of Him who all things can.
For what, alas, can these my single arms?
Mæcænas and Agrippa, who can most with Cæsar.
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Can➦
To be able; - followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to.
Yet he could not but acknowledge to himself that there was something calculated to impress awe, . . . in the sudden appearances and vanishings . . . of the masque
Tom felt that this was a rebuff for him, and could not but understand it as a left-handed hit at his employer.
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Can➦
airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
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Can➦
the quantity contained in a can
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Can➦
a buoy with a round bottom and conical top
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Can➦
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?
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Can➦
a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
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Can➦
a room equipped with toilet facilities
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Can➦
preserve in a can or tin;
tinned foods are not very tasty
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Can➦
terminate the employment of;
The boss fired his secretary today
The company terminated 25% of its workers
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