Cane vs. Reed — What's the Difference?

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

A tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground.

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

A weak or impressionable person

Beat with a cane as a punishment

A piece of thin cane or metal, sometimes doubled, which vibrates in a current of air to produce the sound of various musical instruments, as in the mouthpiece of a clarinet or oboe or at the base of some organ pipes

Take (drink or drugs) in large quantities

An electrical contact used in a magnetically operated switch or relay

A slender, strong but often flexible stem, as of certain bamboos, reeds, or rattans.

A comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft.

A plant having such a stem.

A set of semi-cylindrical adjacent mouldings like reeds laid together.

Such stems or strips of such stems used for wickerwork or baskets.

Any of various tall perennial grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, having hollow stems and large plumelike panicles and growing in wetlands.

A bamboo (Arundinaria gigantea) native to the southeast United States, having long stiff stems and often forming canebrakes.

Any of several similar plants, such as the papyrus.

The stem of a raspberry, blackberry, certain roses, or similar plants.

The stalk of any of these plants.

Sugarcane.

A collection of these stalks

A stick used as an aid in walking or carried as an accessory.

(Music) A primitive wind instrument made of a hollow reed stalk.

A rod used for flogging.

A flexible strip of cane or metal set into the mouthpiece or air opening of certain instruments to produce tone by vibrating in response to a stream of air.

A glass cylinder made of smaller, variously colored glass rods that have been fused together, used in glassmaking.

An instrument, such as an oboe or clarinet, that is fitted with a reed.

To make, supply, or repair with flexible woody material.

A narrow movable frame fitted with reed or metal strips that separate the warp threads in weaving.

To hit or beat with a rod.

(Architecture) A reeding.

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

(countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.

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

(countable) The hollow stem of these plants.

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

Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.

(uncountable) Sugar cane

A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.

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

A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.

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

A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.

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

Reeding.

(with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.

(mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.

A lance or dart made of cane

Straw prepared for thatching a roof.

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

A missile weapon.

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

A measuring rod.

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

A Babylonian unit of measure the length of a reed, equal to half a nindan, or six cubits.

(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

The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.

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

(transitive) To thatch.

A local European measure of length; the canna.

To mill or mint with reeding.

To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement

Simple past tense and past participle of ree

To destroy; to comprehensively defeat

Red.

To do something well, in a competent fashion

Same as Rede.

To produce extreme pain

The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.

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

A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).

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

A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.

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

An arrow, as made of a reed.

A lance or dart made of cane.

Straw prepared for thatching a roof.

A local European measure of length. See Canna.

A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.

To beat with a cane.

A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.

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

A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.

A stick that people can lean on to help them walk

Same as Reeding.

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

Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

A stiff switch used to hit students as punishment

United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)

Beat with a cane

United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)

A vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it;

A musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed