Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - cane
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Cane
cane
~1 n 1 a long thin stick with a curved handle used to help someone walk (- see also stick2 (2)) 2 thin pieces of the stems of plants used for making furniture, baskets etc (a cane chair) 3 a long, hard, yellow stem of a bamboo, used for supporting other plants in the garden 4 a long thin stick used especially in former times by teachers to hit children with as a punishment ~2 v to punish someone, especially a child, by hitting them with a long thin stick
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(canes) 1. Cane is used to refer to the long, hollow, hard stems of plants such as bamboo. Strips of cane are often used to make furniture, and some types of cane can be crushed and processed to make sugar. ...cane furniture. ...cane sugar... Bamboo produces an annual crop of cane... Dig out and burn infected canes. N-VAR: oft N n 2. A cane is a long thin stick with a curved or round top which you can use to support yourself when you are walking, or which in the past was fashionable to carry with you. N-COUNT 3. A cane is a long, thin, flexible stick which in the past was used to hit people, especially children at school, as a punishment. Until the 1980s some criminals were still flogged with a rattan cane as a punishment. N-COUNT • The cane is used to refer to the punishment of being hit with a cane. N-SING: the N 4. see also sugar cane ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Old Occitan cana, from Latin canna, from Greek kanna, of Semitic origin; akin to Akkadian qanu reed, Hebrew qaneh Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) a hollow or pithy and usually slender and flexible jointed stem (as of a reed) (2) any of various slender woody stems; especially an elongated flowering or fruiting stem (as of a rose) usually arising directly from the ground b. any of various tall woody grasses or reeds: as (1) any of a genus (Arundinaria) of coarse grasses (2) sugar~ (3) sorghum 2. ~ dressed for use: as a. a ~ walking stick; broadly walking stick b. a ~ or rod for flogging c. rattan; especially split rattan for wickerwork or basketwork 3. a tiny glass rod used in decorative glasswork (as in millefiori and paperweights) II. transitive verb (~d; caning) Date: 1662 1. to beat with a ~ he sat in a professor's chair and ~d sophomores for blowing spitballs — H. L. Mencken 2. to weave or furnish with ~ ~ the seat of a chair ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a the hollow jointed stem of giant reeds or grasses (bamboo cane). b the solid stem of slender palms (malacca cane). 2 = sugar cane. 3 a raspberry-cane. 4 material of cane used for wickerwork etc. 5 a a cane used as a walking-stick or a support for a plant or an instrument of punishment. b any slender walking-stick. --v.tr. 1 beat with a cane. 2 weave cane into (a chair etc.). Phrases and idioms cane-brake US a tract of land overgrown with canes. cane chair a chair with a seat made of woven cane strips. cane-sugar sugar obtained from sugar-cane. cane-trash see TRASH. Derivatives caner n. (in sense 2 of v.). caning n. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L canna f. Gk kanna ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) камыш (Scirpus) 2) тростник (Phragmites) 3) сахарный тростник (Saccharum) 4) лоза; лозы, стебли кустарников – fruiting cane – giant cane – maiden cane – myar cane – reed cane – sedge cane – small cane – sugar cane ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. камыш; тростник 2. лоза; лозы, стебли кустарников cane furniture —- плетеная (дачная) мебель 3. трость, тросточка 4. ам. палка get the cane —- быть избитым (наказанным) палкой 5. палочка (сургуча и т. п.) 6. сахарный тростник 7. бить тростью, палкой 8. (into) вбивать урок (в чью-л. голову) 9. оплетать тростником, камышом; плести из лозы, камыша, тростника ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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chair noun плетеное кресло (из камыша) CANE of wax палочка сургуча CANE 1. noun 1) камыш; тростник 2) трость; палка; прут - cane of wax 3) сахарный тростник 2. v. 1) бить палкой 2) coll. вдалбливать урок (into) ...Англо-русский словарь
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mil. abbr. Combined Arms Nuclear/Chemical Environment (study determined degration of unit performance in sustained operations) gen. bus. abbr. Commitment And Necessary Effort ...English abbreviation dictionary
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- 14c., from O.Fr. canne, from L. canna "reed, cane," from Gk. kanna, probably from Assyr. qanu "tube, reed," from Sumerian gin "reed." Sense of "walking stick" in Eng. is c.1600; verb meaning "to beat with a walking stick" is from 1667. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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