Definitions for cane
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. canenoun

   a stick that people can lean on to help them walk

2. canenoun

   a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane

3. caneverb

   a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment

4. cane, flog, lambaste, lambastverb

   beat with a cane

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. canenoun

   The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the Grass family Gramineae.

2. canenoun

   The plant itself, including many species in the Grass family Gramineae; a reed.

3. canenoun

   sugar cane. Sometimes applied to maize or rarely to sorghum when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.

4. canenoun

   A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.

5. canenoun

   A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.

6. canenoun

   Corporal punishment by beating with a cane; the cane.

   The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.

7. canenoun

   A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.

   After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.

8. canenoun

   A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by blind persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path.

9. caneverb

   To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.

10. caneverb

    To destroy.

11. caneverb

    To do something well, in a competent fashion.

12. caneverb

    It hurts.

    Don't hit me with that: it really canes!

13. caneverb

    To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

    to cane chairs

14. Etymology: cane, from canna, from κάννα, from qanhā, qanyā, from qanu 'tube, reed', from gin 'reed'.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CANEnoun

   Etymology: canna, Lat.

   1. A kind of strong reed, of which walking staffs are made; a walking staff. See Reed.

   The king thrust the captain from him with his cane; whereupon he took his leave, and went home. Gideon Harvey.

   If the poker be out of the way, or broken, stir the fire with your master’s cane. Jonathan Swift.

   2. The plant which yields the sugar.

   This cane or reed grows plentifully both in the East and West Indies. Other reeds have their skin hard and dry, and their pulp void of juice; but the skin of the sugar cane is soft, and the spongy matter or pith it contains very juicy. It usually grows four or five feet high, and about half an inch in diameter; though some have been mentioned in the island of Tabago twenty four feet high. The stem or stalk is divided by knots a foot and a half apart. At the top it puts forth a number of long green tufted leaves, from the middle of which arise the flower and the seed. There are likewise leaves springing out from each knot; but these usually fall as the cane rises. The ground fit for sugar canes is light, soft, and spongy, lying on a descent proper to carry off the water, and well turned to the sun. They usually plant them in pieces cut a foot and a half below the top of the flower, and they are ordinarily ripe in ten months, though sometimes not till fifteen; at which time they are found quite full of a white succulent marrow, whence is expressed the liquour of which sugar is made. When ripe, they are cut, their leaves cleared off, and they are carried in bundles to the mills, which consist of three wooden rollers, covered with steel plates. Ephraim Chambers.

   And the sweet liquour on the cane bestow,
   From which prepar’d the luscious sugars flow. Richard Blackmore.

   3. A lance; a dart made of cane; whence the Spanish inego de cannas.

   Abenamar, thy youth these sports has known,
   Of which thy age is now spectator grown;
   Judge like thou sitt’st, to praise or to arraign,
   The flying skirmish of the darted cane. John Dryden, Conq. of Gr.

   4. A reed.

   Food may be afforded to bees, by small canes or troughs conveyed into their hives. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

2. To Caneverb

   To beat with a walking staff.

   Etymology: from the noun.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cane

   A cane is a type of stick often used as a walking aid, typically made out of wood, metal or plastics and equipped with a handle. It is also used for directing, pointing or as a symbol of authority. Additionally, "cane" can refer to a plant stem, specifically that of a reed or sugarcane variant.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Canenoun

   a name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans

2. Canenoun

   any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane

3. Canenoun

   stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry

4. Canenoun

   a walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane

5. Canenoun

   a lance or dart made of cane

6. Canenoun

   a local European measure of length. See Canna

7. Caneverb

   to beat with a cane

8. Caneverb

   to make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs

9. Etymology: [OE. cane, canne, OF. cane, F. canne, L. canna, fr. Gr. ka`nna, ka`nnh; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. qneh reed. Cf. Canister, canon, 1st Cannon.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cane

   Cane is either of two genera of tall, perennial grasses with flexible, woody stalks from the family Poaceae, that grow throughout the world. The genera include species of bamboo. The genus Arundo is native from the Mediterranean region to the Far East. Arundinaria is found in the New World. Cane commonly grows in large riparian stands known as canebrakes, found in toponyms throughout the Southern and Far Western United States; they are much like the tules of California. Depending on strength, cane can be fashioned for various purposes such as tools and walking sticks/crutches. Judicial canes, or school canes. Where canes are used in corporal punishment, they must meet particular specifications, such as a high degree of flexibility. Cane historically has been used for many other purposes such as baskets, furniture, boats, roofs and wherever stiff, withy sticks can be put to good use.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cane

   kān, n. the stem of one of the smaller palms—the calamus or rattan, or the larger grasses—bamboo and sugar-cane: a walking-stick.—v.t. to beat with a cane.—ns. Cane′-brake, a brake or thicket of canes; Cane′-chair, a chair made of rattan; Cane′-mill, a mill for bruising sugar-canes for the manufacture of sugar; Cane′-sū′gar, sugar obtained from the sugar-cane; Cane′-trash, refuse of sugar-cane used for fuel in boiling the juice; Cān′ing, a thrashing with a cane.—adj. Cān′y, made of cane.—Malacca cane, a walking-cane made without removing the bark from the brown-mottled or clouded stem of the palm, Calamus Scipionum, brought from Singapore or Sumatra. [Fr. canne—L. canna—Gr. kannē, a reed.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cane

   The rattan (Calamus rudentum), is extensively used in the East for rigging, rope, and cables. The latter have remained for years at the bottom of the sea uninjured by teredo, or any destructive crustacea. The cables, too, resist any but the sharpest axes, when used to connect logs as booms, to stop the navigation of rivers.

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1. CANE

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CANE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cane is ranked #11988 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Cane surname appeared 2,605 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Cane.
   
   71.6% or 1,867 total occurrences were White.
   18.7% or 488 total occurrences were Black.
   4.9% or 129 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.4% or 63 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.3% or 36 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.8% or 22 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Stem
   • Walking Stick

Anagrams for cane »

1. acne

2. ance

3. Caen

4. nace

How to pronounce cane?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cane in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cane in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of cane in a Sentence

1. Greg Falgiano:

   All of this is tracked in the app, too, so you can go back and see … How was the temperature over the last week ? Or, was it really humid, and that's maybe why the baby wasn't sleeping well ? SMART SAFE TECH : BLAZE LASERLIGHT MAKES CYCLISTS SAFER ON THE ROAD Even the look of the device can be adjusted. Parents can dress up The Arlo Baby to look like a rabbit( with snap-on ears and feet), a Dalmatian, or a cat. It also records video, so busy parents don't have to miss milestones like their baby’s first words or first steps. If one parent is on the road, you can use your smartphone and get access to a live feed from the camera, and type in your password to get into the app and see what baby's doing at any time of the day, Falgiano said. MIT RESEARCHERS GIVE THE WHITE CANE USED BY THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED A HIGH-TECH UPDATE Users can talk to their babies when they’re away, thanks to the monitor’s two-way audio. Speak into your smartphone, and The Arlo Baby will hear your voice on the monitor’s speaker. The camera can also be used to record or live-stream nannies and babysitters. The most important thing you can protect is your family.

2. Lizzie Post:

   Bring out the kitschy candy cane earrings.

3. Simon Wheatcroft:

   Running on the soccer pitch wasn’t too difficult, the hardest thing about it was getting to it. One day, they planted trees between my house and the pitch. I usually went there without my cane, and I bumped into a tree.

4. Becky Leaper:

   Me and my husband found it really funny the first time, and then the second time my husband thought someone was trying to break into our car so he opened the window and then burst out laughing. The tree then walked all the way up our drive and put a candy cane on the van as well, then went up to our neighbors.

5. Mike Logan:

   I still struggle walking on a daily basis and have started using a cane to help me get around.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=cane
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cane
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=cane
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cane
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=cane
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=cane
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=cane
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html