Can and Pottery

Can

Can noun - A metal container in the shape of a cylinder.

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Pottery and can are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pottery" instead a noun "Can".

Pottery noun - Articles made of baked clay.

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Can and pottery are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Can" instead a noun "Pottery".

Nearby Words: potter, pottering, pottered, Pott

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He's also an expert in pottery and flint-knapping and can speak eruditely and at great length about them, "ooh-arr" accent and all.

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Philocites in Disney's Hercules, who at one point is seen eating pottery, the Ancient Greece equivalent of the tin can.

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Also you can't use C14 dating on non organic substances (sometimes works on pottery because straw was used to reinforce unfired pots).

Source: Artistic License Nuclear Physics

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