Cane vs. Switch — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cane and Switch
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Cane
The hollow jointed stem of a tall grass, especially bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem of a slender palm such as rattan.
Switch
In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. The most common type of switch is an electromechanical device consisting of one or more sets of movable electrical contacts connected to external circuits.
Cane
A length of cane or a slender stick, especially one used as a support for plants, a walking stick, or an instrument of punishment
Tie the shoot to a cane if vertical growth is required
Switch
A device for making and breaking the connection in an electric circuit
The guard hit a switch and the gate swung open
Cane
Beat with a cane as a punishment
Matthew was caned for bullying by the headmaster
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Switch
An act of changing to or adopting one thing in place of another
His friends were surprised at his switch from newspaper owner to farmer
Cane
Take (drink or drugs) in large quantities
The others were probably out caning it in some bar
Switch
A slender, flexible shoot cut from a tree.
Cane
A slender, strong but often flexible stem, as of certain bamboos, reeds, or rattans.
Switch
A set of points on a railway track.
Cane
A plant having such a stem.
Switch
A tress of false or detached hair tied at one end, used in hairdressing to supplement natural hair.
Cane
Such stems or strips of such stems used for wickerwork or baskets.
Switch
Change the position, direction, or focus of
The company switched the boats to other routes
Cane
A bamboo (Arundinaria gigantea) native to the southeast United States, having long stiff stems and often forming canebrakes.
Switch
Beat or flick with or as if with a switch.
Cane
The stem of a raspberry, blackberry, certain roses, or similar plants.
Switch
An exchange or a swap, especially one done secretly.
Cane
Sugarcane.
Switch
A transference or shift, as of opinion or attention.
Cane
A stick used as an aid in walking or carried as an accessory.
Switch
A device used to break or open an electric circuit or to divert current from one conductor to another.
Cane
A rod used for flogging.
Switch
A device consisting of two sections of railroad track and accompanying apparatus used to transfer rolling stock from one track to another.
Cane
A glass cylinder made of smaller, variously colored glass rods that have been fused together, used in glassmaking.
Switch
A slender flexible rod, stick, or twig, especially one used for whipping.
Cane
To make, supply, or repair with flexible woody material.
Switch
The bushy tip of the tail of certain animals
A cow's switch.
Cane
To hit or beat with a rod.
Switch
A thick strand of real or synthetic hair used as part of a coiffure.
Cane
A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
Switch
A flailing or lashing, as with a slender rod
Gave the ox a switch.
Cane
(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
Switch
To exchange
Asked her brother to switch seats with her.
Cane
(uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed
Switch
To shift, transfer, or divert
Switched the conversation to a lighter subject.
Cane
(uncountable) Sugar cane
Switch
To connect, disconnect, or divert (an electric current) by operating a switch.
Cane
Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar
Switch
To cause (an electric current or appliance) to begin or cease operation
Switched the lights on and off.
Cane
The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
Switch
(Informal) To produce as if by operating a control. Often used with on
Switched on the charm.
Cane
(countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
Switch
To move (rolling stock) from one track to another; shunt.
Cane
(with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.
Switch
To whip with a switch, especially in punishing a child.
Cane
A lance or dart made of cane
Switch
To jerk or swish abruptly or sharply
A cat switching its tail.
Cane
A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane
Switch
To make or undergo a shift or an exchange
The office has switched to shorter summer hours.
Cane
(countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick
After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.
Switch
To swish sharply from side to side.
Cane
A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking
Switch
A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
Cane
(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
Switch
A change or exchange.
Cane
(uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
Switch
A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
Cane
A local European measure of length; the canna.
Switch
A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
Cane
To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
Switch
(musical instruments) rute.
Cane
To destroy; to comprehensively defeat
Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.
Switch
(computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
Use the /b switch to specify black-and-white printing.
Cane
To do something well, in a competent fashion
Switch
A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
Cane
To produce extreme pain
Don't hit me with that. It really canes!
Mate, my legs cane!
Switch
A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
Cane
(transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
To cane chairs
Switch
(telecommunication) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
Cane
A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
Like light canes, that first rise big and brave.
Switch
(genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
Cane
A walking stick; a staff; - so called because originally made of one of the species of cane.
Stir the fire with your master's cane.
Switch
(BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
Cane
A lance or dart made of cane.
Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraignThe flying skirmish of the darted cane.
Switch
(historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
Cane
A local European measure of length. See Canna.
Switch
(card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
Cane
To beat with a cane.
Switch
(transitive) To exchange.
I want to switch this red dress for a green one.
Cane
To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.
Switch
(transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
Switch the light on.
Cane
A stick that people can lean on to help them walk
Switch
To whip or hit with a switch.
Cane
A strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
Switch
(intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
I want to switch to a different seat.
Cane
A stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
Switch
To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
Cane
Beat with a cane
Switch
To swing or whisk.
To switch a cane
Switch
To be swung or whisked.
The angry cat's tail switched back and forth.
Switch
To trim.
Switch
To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
To switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another
Switch
(ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
Switch
(snowboarding) Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
Switch
Pertaining to skiing backwards.
Switch
A small, flexible twig or rod.
Mauritania, on the fifth medal, leads a horse with something like a thread; in her other hand she holds a switch.
Switch
A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
Switch
A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
Switch
A device for shifting an electric current to another circuit, or for making and breaking a circuit.
Switch
To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
Switch
To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
Switch
To trim, as, a hedge.
Switch
To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; - generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
Switch
To shift to another circuit.
Switch
To walk with a jerk.
Switch
Control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
Switch
An event in which one thing is substituted for another;
The replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood
Switch
Hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
Switch
Railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
Switch
A flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
Switch
A basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
Switch
The act of changing one thing or position for another;
His switch on abortion cost him the election
Switch
Change over, change around, or switch over
Switch
Exchange or give (something) in exchange for
Switch
Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another;
Switch to a different brand of beer
She switched psychiatrists
The car changed lanes
Switch
Make a shift in or exchange of;
First Joe led; then we switched
Switch
Cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation;
Switch on the light
Throw the lever
Switch
Flog with or as if with a flexible rod
Switch
Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
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