Cane vs Flourish - What's the difference?
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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.
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, chapter=7, title= # (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)
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.
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, title= # (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.
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, chapter=1, title= A local European measure of length; the canna.
To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
(British, New Zealand, slang) To destroy.
(British, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
(UK, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.
To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
To thrive or grow well.
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, title= To prosper or fare well.
* Nelson
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To be in a period of greatest influence.
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
* Francis Bacon
To make bold, sweeping movements with.
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
* Alexander Pope
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
* J. Watts
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
An ornamentation.
(music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
(architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
As a proper noun cane
is (linguistics).As a verb flourish is
to thrive or grow well.As a noun flourish is
a dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.cane
English
Noun
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.}}
- Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane .
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.}}
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.}}
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.}}
Synonyms
* (the slender flexible stem of a plant such as bamboo) stem, stalk; (of a tree) trunk * (the plant itself) reed * (sugar cane) molasses cane * switch, rod * (corporal punishment by beating with a cane) the cane, a caning, six of the best, whipping, cuts * (strong short staff used for support during walking) staff, walking stick * (a long rod often collapsible) white cane, blind man's caneDerived terms
* bamboo cane * blind man's cane * cane knife * cane rat * cane sugar * cane toad * caneworking * floricane * primocane * sugar cane * walking cane * white caneVerb
(can)- Don't hit me with that. It really canes !
- Mate, my legs cane !
- to cane chairs
Anagrams
* ----flourish
English
Verb
(es)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
- Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish , and that by the means of their wickedness.
- Bottoms of thread which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
- Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
- They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.
- (Fenton)
- (Shakespeare)
- Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
- (Alexander Pope)
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(es)- With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
- His signature ended with a flourish .
- The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.