canning
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See also: Canning
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]canning
- (obsolete) present participle and gerund of can (“to be able to”)
Etymology 2
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Verb
[edit]canning
- present participle and gerund of can (“to seal in a can”)
Noun
[edit]canning (countable and uncountable, plural cannings)
- The process of preserving food by heat processing in a sealed vessel (a jar or can).
- 1969, Herbert John Miller, Non-ferrous Metals Industry, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, page 25:
- Although aluminium can replace tin in most dry cannings, it is not satisfactory for the canning of acid fruits […]
- The practice of collecting aluminum cans or other recyclable objects; making money by collecting and selling such things.
- 2013 February 20, Audie Cornish, quoting Matthew O'Neill, “In ‘Redemption,’ Collecting Cans To Survive”, in NPR News[1]:
- 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.
- 2016 April 8, Malia Wollan, quoting Eugene Gadsen, “How to make money collecting bottles and cans”, in New York Times[2]:
- “In canning, you go where you want and do what you want,” Gadsden says. “You’re your own boss.”
- 2016 August 6, Julia Carrie Wong, “Collecting cans to survive”, in The Guardian[3]:
- But the income that many Californians rely on from canning is imperiled by a crisis for recycling centers.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]preserving process
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