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# cane

«cane» in Mova's school dictionary: **a stick that people use to help them walk; a white cane…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#m1)

2) A cane is the long hollow stem of some plants, like bamboo or sugar cane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#m2)

3) A cane is a thin stick for supporting garden plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#m3)

4) A candy cane is a striped sweet shaped like a walking stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#m4)

5) In the past, to cane meant to hit a pupil with a stick as punishment, which is now banned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#x1)
- A white cane helps a blind person find their way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#x2)
- Sugar is made from sugar cane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#x3)
- We hung candy canes on the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#x4)
- The tomato plants are tied to bamboo canes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#x5)
- Long ago, pupils were punished with a cane, but this is not allowed now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#x6)
- Please give way to the man with the cane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#x7)
- Then he took his cane in his hand, and started for home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/11/)
- [Sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked mainly by enslaved Africans, in brutal conditions where many died young.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/15/)
- [Sugar comes from sugar cane or sugar beet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/7/)
- [To what purpose is to Me the frankincense that cometh from Sheba, and the sweet cane, from a far country?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.190/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cane» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cane/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.