(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(n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.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+.
Wale
Definition:
(n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
(n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
(n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
(n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
(n.) A wale knot, or wall knot.
(v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes.
(v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) Numerical results for the population of England and Wales are shown.
(3) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
(4) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
(5) It may not point to independence – nor, given that large swaths of Wales remain firmly dominated by Labour, mean any huge advance for Plaid Cymru.
(6) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(7) Hospitals in Wales collected £5.4m in parking charges in 2006-07 and hospitals in England took more than £100m.
(8) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
(9) Bringing the Prince of Wales into service “will involve very considerable additional costs, additional manpower, extra aircraft and the considerable amount of support and protection needed to make it viable”, say the MPs.
(10) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.
(11) The bill will create a six-month time limit for family courts in England and Wales to reach decisions on whether children should be taken into care and will require the court to take into account the impact of delays on the child.
(12) There were a record 354 deaths in prisons in England and Wales in 2016.
(13) 31 October TB met the Prince of Wales after he took Prince William hunting.
(14) The annual number of confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease in both Nottingham, and England and Wales, reached a peak in 1980 and has since declined.
(15) A comprehensive analysis of repeat rates has been obtained from an observational study of radiological practice in diagnostic X-ray departments throughout Wales.
(16) The most recent figures show 3,046 confirmed cases in England and Wales, compared with 1,669 cases last winter.
(17) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(18) When he was prime minister Tony Blair asked Peter Mandelson to tell the Prince of Wales to stop his "unhelpful" attempts to influence policy on GM and Mandelson accused him of being "anti-scientific and irresponsible".
(19) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
(20) A spokesperson for Plaid Cymru said: “On 5 May, Wales chose not to elect one single party to govern Wales with a majority.