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  2. Canting - Wikipedia

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    Canting Liman: canting with five cucuk that forms a square with a dot in the center of the square. Canting Byok: canting with an odd number of cucuk and is equal to or more than seven cucuk that forms a circle with a dot in the center of the circle. Canting Renteng/Galaran: canting with four or six cucuk that forms two parallel lines. [15 ...

  3. Cant (language) - Wikipedia

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    An argot (English: / ˈ ɑːr ɡ oʊ /; from French argot 'slang') is a language used by various groups to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary from a particular field of study, occupation, or hobby, in which sense it overlaps with jargon.

  4. Cant - Wikipedia

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    Cant, CANT, canting, or canted may refer to: Language. Cant (language), a secret language; Beurla Reagaird, a language of the Scottish Highland Travellers;

  5. Thieves' cant - Wikipedia

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    A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew; Rhyming slang – Any system of slang in which a word is replaced with a phrase that rhymes with it; Lunfardo – Argot of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Nihali – Isolate language spoken in India; Polari – Form of slang

  6. Batik - Wikipedia

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    The wax can be applied with a variety of tools, including writing with a pen-like canting tool, printing with a cap, or painting with a brush. [31] The canting is the most basic and traditional tool, creating what is known as "written batik" (batik tulis). It allows the creation of very fine, minute patterns but the process is very labour ...

  7. Slang dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Canting Academy, or Devil's Cabinet Opened was a 17th-century slang dictionary, written in 1673 by Richard Head, that looked to define thieves' cant. [1] A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, was first published c. 1698. A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose was first published in 1785.

  8. Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.

  9. Cant (road and rail) - Wikipedia

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    Cant in a velodrome. The cant of a railway track or camber of a road (also referred to as superelevation, cross slope or cross fall) is the rate of change in elevation (height) between the two rails or edges of the road.