What's the difference between cane and stalk?

Cane


Definition:

  • (n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
  • (n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
  • (n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
  • (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
  • (n.) A lance or dart made of cane.
  • (n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.
  • (v. t.) To beat with a cane.
  • (v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
  • (2) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
  • (3) Keeping the dietary fats (coconut safflower seed oil) at 20% level, diets containing (a) startch (54%) + cane sugar (0%), (b) starch (44%) + cane sugar 10%), (c) starch (10%) + cane sugar (44%) and (d) only cane sugar (54%) were administered to rats for 8 weeks.
  • (4) Fifty-five percent of the patients can walk well with one cane, 31% with two canes, and 14% require assistance to walk.
  • (5) All patients were functionally independent and able to ambulate using a straight cane.
  • (6) Britain had just joined what was then the common market and the kind of cane sugar the company processed was being challenged by French-grown sugar beet.
  • (7) All patients were able to walk with or without a cane.
  • (8) The bonus earnings of cane cutters who were found to be infected with S. mansoni were compared, retrospectively, with earnings of uninfected cane cutters during the years 1968-69.
  • (9) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
  • (10) I know you love me and I love you,” said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
  • (11) Nyingi, who was detained for about nine years , beaten unconscious and bears the marks from leg manacles, whipping and caning, said: "For me … I just wanted the truth to be out.
  • (12) At the very top is a panoramic view as far as the southern Sri Lankan coast and a tiny cafe selling magnificent short eats, tea and jaggery (cane sugar).
  • (13) The patient required 19 days of prosthetic training and was discharged independent in ambulation and transfers using two straight canes.
  • (14) After operation the patients did not complain about pain and they walked with the aid of a cane.
  • (15) Twenty isolates of N2-fixing spirilla were isolated from the rhizosphere of maize and sugar cane grown in Egyptian and Belgian soils.
  • (16) Due to the dramatic increase in international oil prices, the ethanol production by fermentation is presently becoming an attractive and feasible project for many countries Argentina has implemented an experimental national program of ethanol use as fuel and the standard procedure of Melle-Boinot is currently employed in sugar cane molasses fermentation.
  • (17) Noting that an unchecked epidemic would undermine the country's development, Reid praised the awareness efforts instituted by the interim government that cane in to power February 1991, following a military coup.
  • (18) Intracutaneous injections of three glucan contaminants of invert sugar solutions and crude cane sugar into human skin produced localised wheals and erythema reactions.
  • (19) Many pictures in the book – of families cutting cane, of men shinning up coconut trees – replicate the rural sights I see when I visit.
  • (20) Protoplasts of susceptible cane are rendered insensitivity to the effects of the toxin in a medium deficient in K+ and Mg2+.

Stalk


Definition:

  • (n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
  • (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
  • (n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
  • (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
  • (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
  • (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
  • (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
  • (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
  • (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
  • (v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
  • (v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
  • (v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
  • (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
  • (n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Regeneration and reorganization of the proximal cut end of the pituitary stalk is demonstrated in Ompok bimaculatus with the aid of in situ staining technique.
  • (2) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
  • (3) The mesenchyme surrounding the stalk stains positively for fibronectin.
  • (4) Do know how much stalking is too much stalking Seven pages into Google is too much.
  • (5) A rich network of fibers was observed in the median eminence coursing towards the pituitary stalk.
  • (6) ECF1 is separated from the membrane-embedded F0 by a narrow stalk approximately 40 A long and approximately 25-30 A thick.
  • (7) Hormone secretion was increased by electrical stimulation of the pituitary stalk at different frequencies.
  • (8) Furthermore, there were differences between anterior and posterior regions of both slime sheaths and stalk tubes.
  • (9) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
  • (10) Septal release slightly decreased during pituitary stalk stimulation, whereas it did increase during stimulation of the supraoptic region.
  • (11) It is hemispherical in shape and is located at the end of a 1.5 mm long eye stalk.
  • (12) Since such rats supposedly have a normal pigment distribution and a normal pattern of decussation at the optic chiasm, this finding appears to undermine the suggested role played by stalk melanin in establishing the laterality of retinal fibre projections in other mammalian species.
  • (13) As culmination proceeds, pstA cells transform into pstB cells by activating the ecmB gene as they enter the stalk tube.
  • (14) Other steps, such as the introduction of a national stalking helpline and national revenge pornography helpline have assisted victims.
  • (15) And we know once they leave, men will follow and stalk them.
  • (16) The ultrastructure of some aggregating microorganisms, including fungal hyphae and sheath-forming and stalked bacteria, was studied in detail, and several modes of aggregation were suggested.
  • (17) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
  • (18) • One in 10 women have been stalked by a previous partner.
  • (19) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
  • (20) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.