Noun

(en noun)

(label) A long object used to make a physical connection.

# A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.

# An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.

# An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.

# (label) A heavy rope or chain of at least 10 inches thick, as used to moor or anchor a ship.

(communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.

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, title= Turn it off , passage=If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.}}

# Short for cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.

A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.

(label) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.

(label) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.

(label) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.

Noun

To do with a plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane.

# (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.

#* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, chapter=7, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane , and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.}}

# (US, Southern) 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.

# A lance or dart made of cane.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted 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.

#* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.}}

#* , chapter=10

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}

# (countable, glassblowing) 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.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, chapter=1, title= The China Governess , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}

A local European measure of length; the canna.