Canon vs. Cannon — What's the Difference?

Archaic spelling of canyon

A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, and usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant. Gunpowder ("black powder") was the primary propellant before the invention of smokeless powder during the late 19th century.

An ecclesiastical law or code of laws established by a church council.

A large, heavy piece of artillery, typically mounted on wheels, formerly used in warfare

A secular law, rule, or code of law.

A stroke in which the cue ball strikes two balls successively.

An established principle

A heavy cylinder or hollow drum that is able to rotate independently on a shaft.

A basis for judgment; a standard or criterion.

Collide with something forcefully or at an angle

The books of the Bible officially accepted as Holy Scripture.

Make a cannon shot.

A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field

A weapon, typically mounted, that fires heavy projectiles from a cylindrical barrel. Cannons include guns, howitzers, and mortars.

The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic

The loop at the top of a bell by which it is hung.

Material considered to be officially part of a fictional universe or considered to fit within the history established by a fictional universe

A round bit for a horse.

Canon The part of the Mass beginning after the Preface and Sanctus and ending just before the Lord's Prayer.

(Zoology) The section of the lower leg in some hoofed mammals between the hock or knee and the fetlock, containing the cannon bone.

The calendar of saints accepted by the Roman Catholic Church.

Chiefly British A carom made in billiards.

(Music) A composition or passage in which a melody is imitated by one or more voices at fixed intervals of pitch and time.

To bombard with cannon.

A member of a chapter of priests serving in a cathedral or collegiate church.

Chiefly British To cause to carom in billiards.

A member of certain religious communities living under a common rule and bound by vows.

To fire cannon.

Variant of canyon.

Chiefly British To make a carom in billiards.

A generally accepted principle; a rule.

A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.

A formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.

Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.

An autocannon.

The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.

A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.

A cannon bit.

A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.

(historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.

A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

A carom.

In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

The arm of a player who can throw well.

A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.

(engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

(Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius

(historical) A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.

Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.

Alternative form of canon

(cookery) A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called a cannon.

(Chinese chess) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.

A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.

A pickpocket.

The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.

To bombard with cannons.

A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.

A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.

To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.

A law or rule.

To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.

(fandom slang) canon

In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.

A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

A kind of type. See Canon.

A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.

See Carom.

The largest size of type having a specific name; - so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

To discharge cannon.

The part of a bell by which it is suspended; - called also ear and shank.

To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound.

See Carom.

A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels

A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.

Heavy gun fired from a tank

A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy;

(Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm

A priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter

Heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane

A ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall

Lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals

A contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts

A shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other

A complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church

Make a cannon

A collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired

Fire a cannon