Noun: canister
| Singular | canister |
| Plural | canisters |
Sample Sentences
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Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe. [1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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Caunt let fly left and right, but Bendy ducked his canister, and got down with more caution than gallantry. [1897, R. G. Allanson-Winn, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, Boxing, page 225:]
Nouns inflected like canister
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English canustyr (“basket”), a borrowing from Latin canistrum. Doublet of canaster and knaster.
2. * (metal receptacle): Through influence of unrelated can.
3. * (projectile): Short for canister shot, so called for its casing. See: Latin Nouns '
canistrum'.
Verbs referencing "canister"
Spanish Nouns
canasta, Spanish Nouns
canasto, Italian Nouns
canestro, German Nouns
Kanister, Irish Nouns
ceanastar, Polish Nouns
kanister, Romanian Nouns
canistră.