Cane vs. Swish

A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof.

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

(uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.

(uncountable) Sugar cane.

Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.

The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool.

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

(uncountable) Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.

Example: ‘The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.’;

A lance or dart made of cane.

A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane.

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

Example: ‘After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.’;

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

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

(uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like.

A local European measure of length; the canna.

To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.

To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.

Example: ‘Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.’;

To do something well, in a competent fashion.

To produce extreme pain.

Example: ‘Don't hit me with that. It really canes!’; ‘Mate, my legs cane!’;

(transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

Example: ‘to cane chairs’;

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

Example: ‘Like light canes, that first rise big and brave.’;

A walking stick; a staff; - so called because originally made of one of the species of cane.

Example: ‘Stir the fire with your master's cane.’;

A lance or dart made of cane.

Example: ‘Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraignThe flying skirmish of the darted cane.’;

A local European measure of length. See Canna.

To beat with a cane.

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

a stick that people can lean on to help them walk

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

a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment

beat with a cane

the hollow jointed stem of a tall grass, especially bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem of a slender palm such as rattan.

any plant that produces canes.

stems of bamboo, rattan, or wicker used as a material for making furniture or baskets

Example: ‘a cane coffee table’;

short for sugar cane

a flexible woody stem of the raspberry plant or any of its relatives

Example: ‘raspberry canes’;

a length of cane or a slender stick, especially one used as a support for plants, a walking stick, or an instrument of punishment

Example: ‘tie the shoot to a cane if vertical growth is required’;

a form of corporal punishment used in certain schools, involving beating with a cane

Example: ‘wrong answers were rewarded by the cane’;

beat with a cane as a punishment

Example: ‘Matthew was caned for bullying by the headmaster’;

defeat heavily or punish severely

Example: ‘they have caned Essex and Durham in the Championship’;

take (drink or drugs) in large quantities

Example: ‘the others were probably out caning it in some bar’;

sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.

Example: ‘This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths.’;

Attractive, stylish

Effeminate.

A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.

A hissing, sweeping movement through the air, as of an animal's tail.

A sound of liquid flowing inside a container.

A twig or bundle of twigs, used for administering beatings; a switch

(basketball) A successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.

(slang) An effeminate male homosexual.

An improvised alcoholic drink made by fermenting whatever ingredients are available.

To make a rustling sound while moving.

Example: ‘The cane swishes.’;

(transitive) To flourish with a swishing sound.

Example: ‘to swish a cane back and forth’;

To flog; to lash.

(basketball) To make a successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.

(gay slang) To mince or otherwise to behave in an effeminate manner.

Example: ‘I shall not swish; I'll merely act limp-wristed.’;

(transitive) To cause a liquid to move around in a container, or in one's mouth.

Example: ‘Swish the mouthwash around the mouth and between the teeth for one minute.’;

A hissing or whistling sound of something travelling quickly through the air.

To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.

To flog; to lash.

To dash; to swash.

A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.

Light driven spray.

a brushing or rustling sound

move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound;

Example: ‘The bubbles swoshed around in the glass’; ‘The curtain swooshed open’;

elegant and fashionable;

Example: ‘classy clothes’; ‘a classy dame’; ‘a posh restaurant’; ‘a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac’;