CANNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does canned mean? 

• CANNED (adjective)
  The adjective CANNED has 2 senses:

1. recorded for broadcast

2. sealed in a can or jar

  Familiarity information: CANNED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recorded for broadcast

Synonyms:

canned; transcribed

Context example:

canned laughter

Similar:

recorded (set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sealed in a can or jar

Synonyms:

canned; tinned

Similar:

preserved (prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use)

 Context examples 

USDA Red spinach also works frozen or canned.

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Low mercury fish include salmon, shrimp, pollock, canned light tuna, tilapia, catfish, and cod.

(Brain benefits of aerobic exercise lost to mercury exposure, NIH)

BPA is used in many kinds of packaging for snacks and drinks, canned foods, and water bottles.

(Do Food Container Chemicals Make Us Fat?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I regained the cabin with a store of jams, sea-biscuits, canned meats, and such things,—all I could carry,—and replaced the trap-door.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Canned goods were turned out that made men laugh, for canned goods on the Long Trail is a thing to dream about.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Foods rich in calcium include: • Dairy products such as milk, cheese, and yogurt • Leafy, green vegetables • Fish with soft bones that you eat, such as canned sardines and salmon • Calcium-enriched foods such as breakfast cereals, fruit juices, soy and rice drinks, and tofu.

(Calcium, NIH: National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements)

My contribution was canned beef fried with crumbled sea-biscuit and water.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I selected mainly from the canned goods, and by the time I was ready, willing hands were extended from above to receive what I passed up.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“No coffee,” I said regretfully, passing her buttered sea-biscuits and a slice of canned tongue.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To be cast away on an island had not entered into my calculations, so we were without a kettle or cooking utensils of any sort; but I made shift with the tin used for bailing the boat, and later, as we consumed our supply of canned goods, we accumulated quite an imposing array of cooking vessels.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)