Canister vs. Can — What's the Difference?

A round or cylindrical container used for storing such things as food, chemicals, or rolls of film.

Be able to

A box or can of thin metal or plastic used for holding dry foodstuffs or cooking ingredients, such as flour or sugar.

Be permitted to

A small plastic container used for storing a roll of film.

Used to request someone to do something

A metal container that holds pressurized gas, as one containing tear gas that explodes on impact or one containing oxygen as part of a breathing apparatus.

Preserve (food) in a can

A metallic cylinder packed with shot that scatter upon discharge from a cannon, formerly used as an antipersonnel round.

Dismiss from a job

Such cylinders, or the shot used in such cylinders, considered as a group.

A cylindrical metal container

The part of a gas mask that contains the filter for removing toxic agents from the air.

Prison

A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).

The toilet

Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.

Headphones.

A special short-range antipersonnel projectile consisting of a casing of light metal, loaded with preformed submissiles such as flechettes or steel balls. The casing is designed to open just beyond the muzzle of the weapon, dispersing the submissiles.

A woman's breasts.

A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.

A usually cylindrical metal container.

A component of canister-type protective masks containing a mechanical filter and chemical filling to filter, neutralize and/or absorb toxic chemical, biological and radiological agents.

An airtight container, usually made of tin-coated iron, in which foods or beverages are preserved.

Part of a windmill that connects the sails to the windshaft.

The contents of such a container

(transitive) To pack into a canister.

(Slang) A jail or prison.

A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.

(Slang) A toilet or restroom.

A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.

(Slang) The buttocks.

A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; - called also canister shot.

(Slang) A naval destroyer.

A metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm

To seal in an airtight container for future use; preserve

Metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour

(Slang) To make a recording of

To end the employment of; fire.

To put an end or stop to

To solicit cash donations for a charity or other organization such as a club or amateur sports team by holding out a can or other container in a public place.

To know how to; to be able to.

May; to be permitted or enabled to.

(modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.

Used with verbs of perception.

To know.

To seal in a can.

To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.

To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).

To shut up.

To fire or dismiss an employee.

To hole the ball.

(transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.

A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.

A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).

A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.

A chamber pot, now a toilet or lavatory.

Buttocks.

(slang) Jail or prison.

Headphones.

(archaic) A drinking cup.

(nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark

A chimney pot.

An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.

An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.

A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.

An obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]

A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids.

A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can.

To preserve by putting in sealed cans

To know; to understand.

To be able to do; to have power or influence.

To be able; - followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to.

Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.

The quantity contained in a can

A buoy with a round bottom and conical top

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;

A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

A room equipped with toilet facilities

Preserve in a can or tin;

Terminate the employment of;