canary
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).
Inflected forms:
form: canaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more canary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most canary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: canaries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: canarying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: canaried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: canaried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: An informer or snitch; a squealer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (nembutal).
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: The tendency in these types of situations (as far as I can see) is that because I don't think the act itself is illegal, the police will go through your vehicle systematically loking^([sic]) for anything wrong with it, to slap a canary on it (that's slang for an unroadworthy sticker) or present you with some other fine.
Yes, if the exhaust is to noisey^([sic]) they can slap a yellow canary on it, but the[n] who cares you got rid of it.
You don't have to carry a spare wheel for a car to be roadworthy, and if you *do* carry one, it doesn't have to be in a roadworthy condition *unless* you fit it [to] the car and drive on it. / If it's not and you get pinched, expect a canary...
gloss: Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ile to my honeſt knight ſir Iohn Falſtaffe, / And drinke Canary with him.
And though the annals of the period do not show us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and sad-coloured garments.
Or maybe you'd accept iv a couple o' bottles of claret or canaries?
gloss: A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]
[…] I haue ſeen a medicine / That's able to breath life into a ſtone, / Quicken a rocke, and make you dance Canari / With ſprightly fire and motion, […]
gloss: A sovereign (coin).
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
gloss: A previously-issued ticket, retained by a ticket-seller, conductor or driver and resold to a subsequent passenger as a means of defrauding the transport company.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She had previously been sacked ... for "selling canaries" - a practice in which drivers resell used tickets to passengers and keep the fare for themselves.
gloss: A prisoner or convict.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
gloss: Of a light yellow colour.
pos: adj
gloss: To dance nimbly (as in the canary dance).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: but to jig off a tune at / the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet,
gloss: To inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
pos: verb
Related words: serin
yellowhead
Derived words: Abyssinian grosbeak canary
Atlantic canary
black-faced canary
black-headed canary
black-throated canary
brimstone canary
bully canary
bush canary
canary bird
canarybird flower
canarybird vine
canary clover
canary creeper
canary fit
canary-flycatcher
canary flyrobin
canary girl
canary grass
canary in a coal mine
canary in the coal mine
Canary Island
canarylike
canary nasturtium
canary parakeet
canarypox
canary release
canary rockfish
canary seed
canary trap
canary-winged finch
canary-winged parakeet
canarywood
canary wood
canary whitewood
canary yellow
Cape canary
cat that ate the canary
cat that swallowed the canary
climate canary
common canary
Damara canary
domestic canary
forest canary
Grand Canary
grosbeak-canary
hairy canary
island canary
Kenya grosbeak-canary
lemon-breasted canary
miner's canary
Missouri canary
northern grosbeak-canary
papyrus canary
protea canary
red factor canary
Rocky Mountain canary
sea canary
sing like a canary
southern grosbeak-canary
stack canary
warrant canary
white-bellied canary
white-throated canary
yellow-crowned canary
yellow-eyed canary
yellow-fronted canary
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: kanarie
lang: Arabic
word: كَنَارِي
roman: kanārī
lang: Armenian
word: դեղձանիկ
roman: deġjanik
lang: Asturian
word: canariu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: sarı bülbül
lang: Bulgarian
word: канарче
roman: kanarče
lang: Catalan
word: canari
lang: Catalan
word: canarí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 金絲雀 /金丝雀
roman: jīnsīquè
lang: Czech
word: kanár
lang: Czech
word: kanárek
lang: Danish
word: kanariefugl
lang: Dutch
word: kanarie
lang: Dutch
word: kanarievogel
lang: Esperanto
word: kanario
lang: Faroese
word: kanarjufuglur
lang: Finnish
word: kanarialintu
lang: French
word: canari
lang: West-Frisian
word: kanarje
lang: Gallurese
word: canariu
lang: German
word: Kanarienvogel
lang: Greek
word: καναρίνι
roman: kanaríni
lang: Hebrew
word: כנרית
lang: Hungarian
word: kanári
lang: Hungarian
word: kanárimadár
lang: Ido
word: kanario
lang: Indonesian
word: kenari
lang: Italian
word: canario
lang: Italian
word: canarino
lang: Japanese
word: カナリア
roman: kanaria
lang: Japanese
word: カナリヤ
roman: kanariya
lang: Japanese
word: 金糸雀
lang: Korean
word: 카나리아
roman: kanaria
lang: Kumyk
word: сарижымчыкъ
roman: sarijımçıq
lang: Latin
word: canaria fringilla
lang: Lithuanian
word: kanarėlė
lang: Low German
word: Kanaarnvagel
lang: Low German
word: Kanaarjenvagel
lang: Low German
word: Kanaljenvagel
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Kanarievillchen
lang: Macedonian
word: канари́нец
roman: kanarínec
lang: Norman
word: canârien
lang: Norwegian
word: kanarifugl
lang: Papiamentu
word: kanari
lang: Polish
word: kanarek
lang: Portuguese
word: canário
lang: Romanian
word: canar
lang: Russian
word: канаре́йка
roman: kanaréjka
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: canariu
lang: Sardinian
word: canarinu
lang: Sassarese
word: canariu
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: canèiridh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: канаринац
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kanarinac
lang: Slovak
word: kanárik
lang: Slovene
word: kanarček
lang: Tashelhit
word: kalalius (Souss-Massa)
lang: Spanish
word: canario
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: kanari
lang: Swedish
word: kanariefågel
lang: Tagalog
word: kanaryo
lang: Thai
word: นกคีรีบูน
roman: nók-kii-rii-buun
lang: Turkish
word: kanarya
lang: Turkish
word: sarı bülbül
lang: Venetan
word: canarìn
lang: Vietnamese
word: chim tước
lang: Vietnamese
word: chim bạch yến
lang: Volapük
word: kanair
lang: Yiddish
word: קאַנאַריק
roman: kanarik