Meaning

15 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.

  2. (countable, uncountable)Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.

  3. (countable, informal, uncountable)A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.

    a female singer

  4. (countable, slang, uncountable)An informer or snitch; a squealer.

    someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

  5. (countable, uncountable)A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.

    Kanariengelb

    a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge

  6. (countable, slang, uncountable)A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (nembutal).

  7. (Australia, countable, informal, uncountable)A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.

  8. (countable, uncountable)Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)

  9. (countable, uncountable)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.

  10. (countable, uncountable)A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.

  11. (countable, uncountable)A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.

    Kanarienvogel

    канаре́йкаkanaréjka

  12. (countable, uncountable)A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).

Examples

58 sentences
  1. My canary was killed by a cat.

    Мою канарейку вбив кіт. — deniko

    ruМою канарейку убила кошка. — Hellerick

    deMein Kanarienvogel wurde von einer Katze getötet. — MUIRIEL

  2. We have a dog, a cat and three canaries.

    У нас є собака, кіт і три канарейки. — deniko

    ruУ нас есть собака, кот и три канарейки. — elsteris

    deWir haben einen Hund, eine Katze und drei Kanarienvögel. — Yorwba

  3. The birds in the cage are canaries.

    ruПтицы в клетке — канарейки. — paul_lingvo

    deDie Vögel im Käfig sind Kanarienvögel. — Zaghawa

  4. Canaries are small birds and people sometimes keep them as a pets.

  5. A canary is a small bird, and people sometimes keep it as a pet.

    Канарка - маленька пташка, і люди іноді тримають її вдома. — deniko

    ruКанарейка - маленькая птичка, люди иногда держат её в качестве домашнего питомца. — katjka

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
bird from the Canary Islands:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
colour:
bird from the Canary Islands:

Origin

From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Island

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”).

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Forms

plural: canaries
Singularcanary
Pluralcanaries

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
informant:informantC2
Close in meaning

Word family

17 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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