Caine

American  

[keyn] / keɪn /

noun

1. (Sir Thomas Henry) Hall, 1853–1931, English novelist.

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Caine British  

/ keɪn /

noun

1. Sir Michael. real name Maurice Micklewhite . born 1933, British film actor. His films include The Ipcress File (1965), Get Carter (1971), Educating Rita (1983), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and The Cider House Rules (1999).

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Example Sentences

And, since Caine couldn’t get the hang of it, it’s Deighton’s hand seen in the movie cracking eggs into a bowl.

From The Wall Street Journal

The movie helped make Caine a star, and the book turned Deighton, who died March 15 at the age of 97, into a bestselling author, launching a long career that included dozens of books and a lifetime of comparisons to contemporaries John le Carré, author of the George Smiley novels like “The Spy Who Came In from the Cold,” and Ian Fleming, father of James Bond.

From The Wall Street Journal

“That wasn’t the exact message,” Caine wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal

He continued writing novels featuring his unnamed spy—the “Harry Palmer” moniker was added for the movies—who Caine brought to the screen again in “Funeral in Berlin” and “Billion-Dollar Brain.”

From The Wall Street Journal

At the helm today are military officers—Gen. Dan Caine, Adm.

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