Definitions for cagekeɪdʒ

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

cagekeɪdʒ(n.; v.)caged, cag•ing.

  1. (n.)a boxlike enclosure with wires, bars, or the like, for confining birds or animals.

  2. a prison.

  3. a cagelike enclosure for a cashier or bank teller.

  4. an elevator car.

  5. a similar enclosure for raising and lowering workers in a mine shaft.

    Category: Mining

  6. any skeleton framework, esp. in construction.

  7. a movable mesh backstop used for baseball batting practice.

    Category: Sport

  8. a frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.

    Category: Sport

  9. (v.t.)to put or confine in or as if in a cage.

Origin of cage:

1175–1225; ME < OF < L cavea birdcage, der. of cavus hollow

cage′like`(adj.)

Cagekeɪdʒ(n.)

  1. John, 1912–92, U.S. composer.

    Category: Biography

Princeton's WordNet

  1. cage, coop(noun)

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

  2. cage(noun)

    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. cage(noun)

    the net that is the goal in ice hockey

  5. batting cage, cage(verb)

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

  6. cage, cage in(verb)

    confine in a cage

    "The animal was caged"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. cage(noun)ɪdʒ

    a container with bars for an animal to live in

Wiktionary

  1. cage(Noun)

    an enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

  2. cage(Noun)

    the passenger compartment of a lift

  3. cage(Noun)

    the goal.

  4. cage(Noun)

    (US derogatory slang) automobile

  5. cage(Noun)

    Something that hinders freedom.

  6. cage(Verb)

    to put into a cage

  7. cage(Verb)

    to keep in a cage

  8. cage(Verb)

    To track individual responses to direct mail.

  9. cage(Verb)

    to restrict someone's movement or creativity

  10. Origin: From cage, from Latin cavea

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cage(noun)

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

  2. Cage(noun)

    a place of confinement for malefactors

  3. Cage(noun)

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

  4. Cage(noun)

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

  5. Cage(noun)

    a wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes

  6. Cage(noun)

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

  7. Cage(noun)

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

  8. Cage(noun)

    the catcher's wire mask

  9. Cage(verb)

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


Translations for cage

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

cage(noun)

a box of wood, wire etc for holding birds or animals

The lion has escaped from its cage; a bird-cage.

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