Explore Canting through 4 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Canting meaning
present participle and gerund of cant
Using Canting
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of cant
Context around Canting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Canting
- In this selection, "canting" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cause, charges, keel and device stand out and add context to how "canting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include occur as canting charges such and of a canting keel can. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "canting" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with canting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Three maces, probably a canting device (Kolben means mace in German, cfr. (12 words)
In some high-performance racing yachts, water ballast or the angle of a canting keel can be changed to provide additional righting force to counteract heeling. (26 words)
Heraldry Banner of Rutland In heraldry, horseshoes most often occur as canting charges, such as in the arms of families with names like Farrier, Marshall and Smith. (27 words)
It was shown that the system is essentially antiferromagnetic, but that the low symmetry of the cation sites allows spin–orbit coupling to cause canting of the moments when they are in the plane perpendicular to the c axis. (39 words)
Heraldry Banner of Rutland In heraldry, horseshoes most often occur as canting charges, such as in the arms of families with names like Farrier, Marshall and Smith. (27 words)
In some high-performance racing yachts, water ballast or the angle of a canting keel can be changed to provide additional righting force to counteract heeling. (26 words)
Example sentences (4)
Heraldry Banner of Rutland In heraldry, horseshoes most often occur as canting charges, such as in the arms of families with names like Farrier, Marshall and Smith.
In some high-performance racing yachts, water ballast or the angle of a canting keel can be changed to provide additional righting force to counteract heeling.
It was shown that the system is essentially antiferromagnetic, but that the low symmetry of the cation sites allows spin–orbit coupling to cause canting of the moments when they are in the plane perpendicular to the c axis.
Three maces, probably a canting device (Kolben means mace in German, cfr.