Cane vs. Swish — 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.

To move with a hissing or whistling sound.

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

To rustle, as silk.

Beat with a cane as a punishment

To cause to move with a swishing sound

Take (drink or drugs) in large quantities

To swirl or agitate (a liquid) in a glass or in the mouth with a swishing sound.

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

To whip with a rod.

A plant having such a stem.

A sharp whistling or rustling sound

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

A movement making such a sound.

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

(Basketball) A shot that goes through the net of the basket without hitting the backboard or rim.

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

A rod used for flogging.

Sugarcane.

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.

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

Chiefly British Fashionable; posh

A rod used for flogging.

Offensive Slang Effeminate.

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

Sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.

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

Attractive, stylish

To hit or beat with a rod.

Effeminate.

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

A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.

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

A hissing, sweeping movement through the air, as of an animal's tail.

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

A sound of liquid flowing inside a container.

(uncountable) Sugar cane

A twig or bundle of twigs, used for administering beatings; a switch

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

(basketball) A successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.

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

(slang) An effeminate male homosexual.

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

(slang) Effeminacy, effeminate or homosexual demeanor.

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

An improvised alcoholic drink made by fermenting whatever ingredients are available.

A lance or dart made of cane

To make a rustling sound while moving.

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

(transitive) To flourish with a swishing sound.

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

To flog; to lash.

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

(basketball) To make a successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.

(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

(gay slang) To mince or otherwise to behave in an effeminate manner.

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

(transitive) To cause a liquid to move around in a container, or in one's mouth.

A local European measure of length; the canna.

A hissing or whistling sound of something travelling quickly through the air.

To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement

To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.

To destroy; to comprehensively defeat

To flog; to lash.

To do something well, in a competent fashion

To dash; to swash.

To produce extreme pain

A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.

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

Light driven spray.

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

A brushing or rustling sound

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

Move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound;

A lance or dart made of cane.

Elegant and fashionable;

A local European measure of length. See Canna.

To beat with a cane.

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

A stick that people can lean on to help them walk

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

A stiff switch used to hit students as punishment

Beat with a cane