Canning

Quick meaning: Canning is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of can (“to seal in a can”).

Meaning

present participle and gerund of can (“to seal in a can”).

More Meanings

1. The process of preserving food by heat processing in a sealed vessel (a jar or can).
2. The practice of collecting aluminum cans or other recyclable objects; making money by collecting and selling such things.
3. (obsolete) present participle and gerund of can (“to be able to”)

Example Sentences

“In canning, you go where you want and do what you want,” Gadsden says. “You’re your own boss.”

But the income that many Californians rely on from canning is imperiled by a crisis for recycling centers.

Although aluminium can replace tin in most dry cannings, it is not satisfactory for the canning of acid fruits […]

Canners know when they hear the clink of a bottle going into a garbage bin.[…] CORNISH: Now, there's also this sense of loss in hearing people in the movie describe what they had been doing before canning became a way of life for them.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tinned, recorded, transcribed, preserved, cannery, preserves.

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