different between chastise vs cane

English

Alternative forms

• chastize (archaic in British English and rare in American English)

Etymology

From Old French chastier, from Latin castigo. See also the doublets chasten and castigate and cf. also chaste.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?æ?sta?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æsta?z/, /t?æ?sta?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z

Verb

chastise (third-person singular simple present chastises, present participle chastising, simple past and past participle chastised)

1. To punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment.
   • 1809, Flavius Josephus, The first eleven books of the Antiquities of the Jews, with a table of the Jewish coins, weights and measures, page 402:

     and if his father had chastised them with whips, they must expect that he would do it with scorpions.

   • 2018, Nyx Smith, Shadowrun Legends: Striper Assassin, Catalyst Game Labs

     “There is a man who must be chastised,” she says softly, lightly. “Chastised in a physical way. It should not be difficult. Not for you.”

2. To castigate; to severely scold or censure (someone).
3. To lightly criticize or correct (someone).
   • 2002, Eric Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists, Univ of California Press (?ISBN), page 50:

     While Ellington voiced praise and respect for Benny Goodman and some white bandleaders, he gently chastised others for profiting from “musical-simplification to the 'nth' degree” and “reach[ing] a pleasing musical middle.”

   • 2011, Patricia Colton, The Window Blind, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 496:

     “You're not insensitive,” she lightly chastised. “I love you.” “Love you too.”

   • 2017, Ava Stone, A Scandalous Ruse:

     “Greg,” she lightly chastised. “You're not supposed to move your lips.” “Yes, I know. I'm a horrible subject. But do answer the question, Bella.”

   • 2019, Eliza Ellis, Hers to Kiss, Eliza Ellis

     “You could've trusted me,” Pete gently chastised. “I can handle it.” He sat on the edge of her bed. “I was afraid to, honey. I know how stressed you've been with the camp […] ”

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Translations

See also

• punish
• castigate

English

Etymology

From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). Related to channel and canal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?e?n]
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Homophone: Cain

Noun

cane (countable and uncountable, plural canes)

1. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
   1. (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae

      Synonyms: stem, stalk, (of a tree) trunk

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

      Synonym: reed

   3. (uncountable) Sugar cane

      Synonym: molasses cane

   4. (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar
2. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
   1. (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.

      Synonyms: rod, switch
   2. (with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.

      Synonyms: a caning, six of the best, whipping, cuts

   3. A lance or dart made of cane
      • 1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada

        Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane.

3. a rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane
   1. (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick

      Synonyms: staff, walking stick

   2. (countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking
   3. (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

      Synonyms: blind man's cane, white cane

4. (uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
5. A local European measure of length; the canna.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cane (third-person singular simple present canes, present participle caning, simple past and past participle caned)

1. to strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
2. (Britain, New Zealand, slang) to destroy; to comprehensively defeat

3. (Britain, New Zealand, slang) to do something well, in a competent fashion
4. (Britain, slang, intransitive) to produce extreme pain

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

Translations

Anagrams

• -ance, Caen, Cena, Nace, acne, ance

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin canis, from Proto-Italic *k?, from Proto-Indo-European *?w?. Cognates include Italian cane and Romanian câine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan?/

Noun

cane m (plural cani, feminine cagna)

1. (Cismontane dialects) dog (Canis familiaris)

Synonyms

• (Ultramontane dialects) ghjacaru

References

• “cane, cani” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

French

Etymology

From Middle French cane (“duck, female duck; literally floater, little boat”), from Old French cane (“boat, ship; waterbird”), from Middle Low German kane (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *kan? (“boat, vessel”). See Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”). Cognate with Norwegian kane (“swan-shaped vessel”), Dutch kaan (“boat”), German Kahn (“boat”), Old Norse kæna (“little boat”), and possibly Old Norse kn?rr (“ship”) (whence also Late Latin canardus (“ship”), from Germanic; and Old English cnearr (“merchant ship”)). Related to French canot (“little boat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan/
• Homophone: Cannes

Noun

cane f (plural canes)

1. duck (female duck)

Related terms

• canard

Further reading

• “cane” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Caen

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.ne/
• Hyphenation: cà?ne

Etymology 1

From the Latin canem, accusative form of canis, from Proto-Italic *k? (accusative *kwanem), from Proto-Indo-European *?w? (accusative *?wónm?). Compare Portuguese cão, Romanian câine and Aromanian cãni.

Noun

cane m (plural cani, feminine cagna)

1. dog, male dog

   Hypernym: canide

2. (firearms) hammer

Derived terms

Related terms

Adjective

cane (invariable)

1. (of cold) freezing, biting

2. (of pain) terrible, dreadful, awful

See also

• abbaiare
• bau

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

cane f

1. plural of cana

Adjective

cane

1. feminine plural of cano

Anagrams

• acne, cena

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.ne/, [?kän?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.ne/, [?k??n?]

Verb

cane

1. second-person singular present active imperative of can?

Noun

cane

1. ablative singular of canis

References

• cane in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cane in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French cane, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na).

Alternative forms

• canne, kane, kanne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?n(?)/

Noun

cane (plural canes)

1. bamboo, sugar cane, flax, or a similar simple-stemmed plant
2. the stem or stalk of such a plant, often used to write with
3. (rare) a metal implement used for surgery
4. (rare) a bodily passage or tube, such as the trachea

Derived terms

• canel

Descendants

• English: cane
• Scots: cane

References

• “c?ne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-01.

Etymology 2

From Old English canne.

Noun

cane

1. Alternative form of canne

Old French

Etymology

From Latin canna (“reed, cane”)

Noun

cane f (oblique plural canes, nominative singular cane, nominative plural canes)

1. tube

Descendants

• French: canne
• Norman: tchêne (Jersey), kyeen (Sark)
• ? Middle English: cane, canne, kane, kanne
  • English: cane
  • Scots: cane

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• cani (campidanese)

Etymology

From the Latin canem, accusative form of canis, from Proto-Italic *k? (accusative *kwanem), from Proto-Indo-European *?w? (accusative *?wónm?). Compare Italian cane, Portuguese cão, Spanish can, French chien and Romanian câine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cane/

Noun

cane m or f (plural canes)

1. dog

   Synonym: perru

Venetian

Noun

cane

1. plural of cana