cane
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cane¹
- /keɪn/
Sounds like Cain · Rhymes with -eɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal.
noun canes
- The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
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The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
Similar: reed
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Sugar cane.
Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.
Similar: molasses cane
- Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
- A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment. He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.]
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Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.
Similar: a caning, six of the best, whipping, cuts
- A lance or dart made of cane. Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane.
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A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.
After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.
Similar: staff, walking stick
- A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
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A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path.
Similar: blind man's cane, white cane
- Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry. The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
- A local European measure of length; the canna.
verb canes · caning · caned
- To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
- To make or furnish with cane or rattan. to cane chairs
- To destroy; to comprehensively defeat. Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.
- To do something well, in a competent fashion.
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To go very fast.
Similar: cane it
- To produce extreme pain. Don’t hit me with that. It really canes!
CanE²
proper noun
- Abbreviation of Canadian English Finally, section (2.5) reviews diachronic language studies on CanE, which is the area of focus in the present study.
Cane³
proper noun Canes
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: lambast, flog, lambaste, rattan, sugarcane, sugar-cane, barley, sugar, stick, stalk, bat, barrel, crutch, rod, pole, baton
Translations
Every language
noun slender flexible stem of plants such as bamboo
| Español | caña |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 대 dae, 줄기 julgi |
| 日本語 | 杖 tsue |
| 中文 | 莖 /茎 jīng |
| हिन्दी | बेत bet, बेँत bẽt |
| Kiswahili | kiboko, fimbo, ufito |
| Português | colmo |
| Français | canne, tige |
| Deutsch | Rohr |
| Italiano | canna, canna di bambu, canna da zucchero, giunco |
| Română | tijă |
| Русский | трость trostʹ, па́лка pálka |
| العربية | بُوص būṣ, قَصَبَة qaṣaba |
| עברית | קָנֶה kané |
noun plant itself
| Español | caña |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 갈대 galdae, 갈 gal, 로 ro |
| 日本語 | 蘆 ashi, 葦 ashi, よし yoshi |
| 中文 | 蘆葦 /芦苇 lúwěi |
| हिन्दी | बेत bet, बेँत bẽt |
| Kiswahili | mmea |
| Português | cana |
| Deutsch | Rohr |
| Italiano | canna |
| Русский | тростни́к trostník |
| עברית | קָנֶה kané |
noun a short wooden or bamboo rod or stick used for corporal punishment
| 한국어 | 매 mae |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 藤條 /藤条 téngtiáo |
| हिन्दी | बेत bet, छड़ी chaṛī, डंडा ḍaṇḍā, बेँत bẽt |
| Kiswahili | kiboko |
| Português | chibata, vergasta |
| Français | canne |
| Deutsch | Rohrstock |
| Italiano | bastone, bacchetta, verga |
| Русский | ро́зга rózga, прут prut |
| עברית | מַקֵּל makél |
noun the cane: corporal punishment consisting of a beating with a cane
| 中文 | 抽打 chōudǎ |
|---|---|
| Português | chibateamento |
| Français | bastonnade |
| Italiano | bastonata |
| Русский | уда́р ро́згами udár rózgami, уда́р па́лкой udár pálkoj |
| עברית | מלקות malqot |
noun long collapsible rod used by vision impaired people
| Español | bastón, bastón blanco |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 手杖 shǒuzhàng |
| हिन्दी | बेत bet, छड़ी chaṛī, डंडा ḍaṇḍā, बेँत bẽt |
| Kiswahili | fimbo, ufito |
| Português | bengala |
| Français | canne, canne blanche |
| Deutsch | Blindenstock, weisser Langstock |
| Italiano | bastone |
| Română | baston |
| Русский | трость trostʹ |
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title = {cane},
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