Definitions for CAGE
keɪdʒcage

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cage, coopnoun

   an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

2. cagenoun

   something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement

3. Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.noun

   United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)

4. cagenoun

   the net that is the goal in ice hockey

5. batting cage, cageverb

   a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice

6. cage, cage inverb

   confine in a cage

   "The animal was caged"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cagenoun

   an enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

2. cagenoun

   the passenger compartment of a lift

3. cagenoun

   the goal.

4. cagenoun

   (US derogatory slang) automobile

5. cagenoun

   Something that hinders freedom.

6. cageverb

   to put into a cage

7. cageverb

   to keep in a cage

8. cageverb

   To track individual responses to direct mail.

9. cageverb

   to restrict someone's movement or creativity

10. Etymology: From cage, from Latin cavea

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CAGEnoun

   Etymology: cage, Fr. from cavea, Lat.

   1. An inclosure of twigs or wire, in which birds are kept.

   See whether a cage can please a bird? or whether a dog grow not fiercer with tying? Philip Sidney.

   He taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes, I am sure, you are not a prisoner. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

   Though slaves, like birds that sing not in a cage,
   They lost their genius, and poetick rage;
   Homers again and Pindars may be found,
   And his great actions with their numbers crown’d. Edmund Waller.

   And parrots, imitating human tongue,
   And singing birds in silver cages hung;
   And ev’ry fragrant flow’r, and od’rous green,
   Were sorted well, with lumps of amber laid between. John Dryden, Fables.

   A man recurs to our fancy, by remembering his garment, a beast, bird, or fish, by the cage, or court-yard, or cistern, wherein it was kept. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.

   The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on various Subjects.

   2. A place for wild beasts, inclosed with palisadoes.3. A prison for petty malefactors.

2. To Cageverb

   To inclose in a cage.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   He swoln, and pamper’d with high fare,
   Sits down, and snorts, cag’d in his basket-chair. John Donne.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cage

   A cage is an enclosure often made of mesh, bars, or wires, used to confine, contain or protect something or someone. A cage can serve many purposes, including keeping an animal or person in captivity, capturing an animal or person, and displaying an animal at a zoo.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cage

   A cage is a structure or enclosure designed to confine or protect something. It is typically made of bars, wires or netting and often used to keep animals or birds captive. The term can also refer to any situation or condition that confines, restricts, or traps, like in a metaphorical sense.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cagenoun

   a box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals

2. Cagenoun

   a place of confinement for malefactors

3. Cagenoun

   an outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase

4. Cagenoun

   a skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve

5. Cagenoun

   a wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes

6. Cagenoun

   the box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft

7. Cagenoun

   the drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim

8. Cagenoun

   the catcher's wire mask

9. Cageverb

   to confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine

10. Etymology: [F. cage, fr. L. cavea cavity, cage, fr. cavus hollow. Cf. Cave, n., Cajole, Gabion.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cage

   Cage is an American heavy metal band from San Diego, California. In early 2010, original bassist Mike Giordano and lead guitarist Anthony Wayne McGuiniss exited the band. CAGE’s newest band members; bassist Steve Brogden and former Brick Bath bassist Pete Stone.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cage

   kāj, n. a place of confinement: a box made of wire and wood for holding birds or small animals: (mining) a frame with one or more platforms for cars, used in hoisting in a vertical shaft: the framework supporting a peal of bells.—v.t. to imprison in a cage—p.adj. Caged, confined.—ns. Cage′ling, a bird kept in a cage; Cage′-work, open work like the bars of a cage. [Fr.—L. cavea, a hollow place.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cage

   An iron cage formed of hoops on the top of a pole, and filled with combustibles to blaze for two hours. It is lighted one hour before high-water, and marks an intricate channel navigable for the period it burns; much used formerly by fishermen.

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1. cage

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3. CAGE

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CAGE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cage is ranked #6345 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Cage surname appeared 5,372 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Cage.
   
   55.2% or 2,970 total occurrences were Black.
   38.7% or 2,083 total occurrences were White.
   3.1% or 170 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.9% or 104 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.4% or 26 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.3% or 19 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Composer
   • Constraint
   • Net

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'CAGE' in Nouns Frequency: #2497

How to pronounce CAGE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say CAGE in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of CAGE in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of CAGE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of CAGE in a Sentence

1. Ted Weisberg:

   The Fed is the 800-pound gorilla, but it's an 800-pound gorilla that's been pushed back in its cage, and it's not going anywhere, i would have to think that the bias will continue to be on the positive side for the market.

2. Henry County:

   In a single-wide trailer in the living room youve got a kid caged, youve got eightsnakes and youve got the snakes feed butted up against the childs cage, eight snakes in the same room, then mice running everywhere.

3. Jacob Levitt:

   There is a common misconception that a rabbit just can sit in a cage and eat carrots.

4. Skinny Pete:

   I have no idea where Jesse Pinkman is, and yo, even if I did, I wouldn't tell you. Because I've been watching the news same as everyone else. I've seen that little cage of his they kept him in.

5. The Iraqis:

   We did the standup inside a cage.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=CAGE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cage
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=CAGE
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CAGE
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=CAGE
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=CAGE
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=CAGE
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html