cane

(Anglais)

Noun

1. (uncountable) A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
2. (uncountable) A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
3. (uncountable) A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
4. (Southern, US, countable, uncountable) A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
5. (countable) The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
6. (countable, uncountable, with-definite-article) The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
7. (countable, uncountable) The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
8. (countable) A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant.
9. (countable) A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant.
10. (countable) A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant.
11. (uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.
12. (countable, uncountable) A local European measure of length; the canna.

Verb

1. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
2. (transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
3. (New-Zealand, UK, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
4. (New-Zealand, UK, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
5. (UK, slang) To go very fast.
6. (Australia, UK, intransitive, slang) To produce extreme pain.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/keɪn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: cane

In summary

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”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal.

Concepts

canne

bâton

roseau

tige

canne à sucre

badine

gros

jonc

laîche

marais

pique

verge

battre à coups de canne

canner

carex

morceau de bois

rotin

sorte de jonc

tige de maïs juteuse

ried

baguette

canne blanche

barre

bastonnade

bâtonner

béquille

bois

🪵

Synonymes

stick

walking stick

staff

reed

rod

baton

rattan

whip

club

crutch

🩼

pole

switch

walking-stick

cudgel

wand

ratan

flog

lash

ferule

vines

beat

strike

stave

scepter

thrash

pitpit

creeper

bamboo

🎍

crook

supple stick

weave

vine

truncheon

sugar cane

straw

lambast

stake

smack

bludgeon

spar

bat

🦇

stuff

rush

sceptre

lambaste

bind

culm

billy

scourge

big stick

Traductions

caña

bastón

canna

Stock

bastone

stok

Rohr

canya

riet

cana

Schilf

arundo

palo

Spazierstock

Stab