cane
part of speech
noun (a cane, canes); verb (cane, canes, caned, caning)
meaning for a pupil
1) A cane is a stick that people use to help them walk; a white cane helps blind people. tree →
2) A cane is the long hollow stem of some plants, like bamboo or sugar cane. tree →
3) A cane is a thin stick for supporting garden plants. tree →
4) A candy cane is a striped sweet shaped like a walking stick. tree →
5) In the past, to cane meant to hit a pupil with a stick as punishment, which is now banned. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life, older people or people with injuries use a cane; a white cane tells others someone is blind or partly sighted. In science and geography, sugar cane is grown to make sugar. At Christmas, candy canes are a treat. Phrases: walking cane, white cane, sugar cane, candy cane.
examples
- Grandpa walks with a cane. tree →
- A white cane helps a blind person find their way. tree →
- Sugar is made from sugar cane. tree →
- We hung candy canes on the tree. tree →
- The tomato plants are tied to bamboo canes. tree →
- Long ago, pupils were punished with a cane, but this is not allowed now. tree →
- Please give way to the man with the cane. tree →
- Then he took his cane in his hand, and started for home. tree →
note
Countable: a cane, canes. Do not confuse with Cain (a name) or can. In the UK a walking cane is often called a walking stick. Be kind: never move or touch someone's white cane without asking.
In the corpora
- The crushed cane stems left over are burned to power the sugar mills.
- Sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked mainly by enslaved Africans, in brutal conditions where many died young.
- Sugar comes from sugar cane or sugar beet.
- To what purpose is to Me the frankincense that cometh from Sheba, and the sweet cane, from a far country?
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cane» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.