CANTING

Traducere în limba română

canting¹ adjectiv

1. ipocrit, prefăcut, făţarnic.

2. ticălos, netrebnic.

3. fanfaron.

4. aluziv, indirect.

canting² substantiv

jargonul folosit de cerşetori, hoţi şi vagabonzi.

canting³ substantiv (tehn.)

1. răsturnare, întoarcere.

2. înclinare.

3. debitare pe prisme.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The sudden canting of the ship had made the deck no place for running on; I had to find some new way of escape, and that upon the instant, for my foe was almost touching me.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poisoning, whoring, canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations: every one of which terms I was at much pains to make him understand.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

At every jump too, Hands appeared still more to sink into himself and settle down upon the deck, his feet sliding ever the farther out, and the whole body canting towards the stern, so that his face became, little by little, hid from me; and at last I could see nothing beyond his ear and the frayed ringlet of one whisker.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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