canary

Substantiv

1. 1

   A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.

2. 2

   Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.

3. 3

   umgangssprachlichA female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.

4. 4

   SlangAn informer or snitch; a squealer.

5. 5

   A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.

6. 6

   SlangA (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (nembutal).

7. 7

   umgangssprachlichA yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.

   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...

8. 8

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

9. 9

   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. 10

    A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.

11. 11

    A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.

    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?

12. 12

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

    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, […]

13. 13

    veraltetA sovereign (coin).

14. 14

    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.

    She had previously been sacked ... for "selling canaries" - a practice in which drivers resell used tickets to passengers and keep the fare for themselves.

15. 15

    veraltetA prisoner or convict.

Adjektiv

1. 1

   Of a light yellow colour.

Verb

1. 1

   To dance nimbly (as in the canary dance).

   but to jig off a tune at / the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet,

2. 2

   SlangTo inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.

3. 3

   To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.

Formen

Plural

canaries

Komparativ

more canary

Superlativ

most canary

Präteritum

canaried

Partizip II

canaried

Partizip I

canarying

3. Person Singular

canaries