Staff vs. Cane — What's the Difference?

A stick or cane carried as an aid in walking or climbing.

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

A stout stick used as a weapon; a cudgel.

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 pole on which a flag is displayed; a flagstaff.

Beat with a cane as a punishment

A rod or baton carried as a symbol of authority.

Take (drink or drugs) in large quantities

Pl. staffs A rule or similar graduated stick used for testing or measuring, as in surveying.

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

A group of assistants to a manager, executive, or other person in authority.

A plant having such a stem.

A group of military officers assigned to assist a commanding officer in an executive or advisory capacity.

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

The personnel who carry out a specific enterprise

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

Something that serves as a staple or support.

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

(Music) A set of horizontal lines and intermediate spaces used in notation to represent a sequence of pitches, in modern notation normally consisting of five lines and four spaces. Also called stave.

Sugarcane.

A building material of plaster and fiber used as an exterior wall covering of temporary buildings, as at expositions.

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

To provide with a staff of workers or assistants.

A rod used for flogging.

To serve on the staff of (an organization).

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

A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.

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

A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.

To hit or beat with a rod.

The employees of a business.

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

(uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.^W

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

A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.

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

A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.

(uncountable) Sugar cane

(archaic) The rung of a ladder.

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

A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.

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

(engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.

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

(surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.

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

(military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.

A lance or dart made of cane

A form of token once used, in combination with a ticket, for safe train movements between two points on a single line.

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

(transitive) To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.

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

A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or stick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.

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

A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.

(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

A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.

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

A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.

A local European measure of length; the canna.

The round of a ladder.

To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement

A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.

To destroy; to comprehensively defeat

The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; - formerly called stave.

To do something well, in a competent fashion

An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.

To produce extreme pain

The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.

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

An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See État Major.

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

Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendent or manager; sometimes used for the entire group of employees of an enterprise, excluding the top management; as, the staff of a newspaper.

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

Plaster combined with fibrous and other materials so as to be suitable for sculpture in relief or in the round, or for forming flat plates or boards of considerable size which can be nailed to framework to make the exterior of a larger structure, forming joints which may afterward be repaired and concealed with fresh plaster.

A lance or dart made of cane.

Personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task;

A local European measure of length. See Canna.

The body of teachers and administrators at a school;

To beat with a cane.

A strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose;

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

Building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration

A stick that people can lean on to help them walk

A rod carried as a symbol

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

(music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

A stiff switch used to hit students as punishment

Provide with staff;

Beat with a cane

Serve on the staff of;