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How to pronounce “cannon”

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Pronunciation guide for cannon

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of cannon with real speech in context.
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Real speech example
TED Is 40 — Here’s How It All StartedAnd I was a loose cannon, as you know.
Definition summary
A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.[4]

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How to pronounce cannon

TED Is 40 — Here’s How It All Started

And I was a loose cannon, as you know.

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “cannon”

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.[4]
  • Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
  • A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
  • (cooking) A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
  • A cannon bit.
  • (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
  • (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
  • (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.
  • (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
  • (historical) A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
  • (printing, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”).
  • (xiangqi) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
  • (US, slang) A pickpocket.
  • [Verb]
  • To bombard with cannons.
  • (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
  • To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
  • To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

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