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 Definitions of cage  [ɪdʒ]  

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Definition of 'cage' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

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

2.  cage
a prison.

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

4.  cage
an elevator car.

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

6.  cage
any skeleton framework, esp. in construction.

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

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

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

10. (n.) Cage
John, 1912–92, U.S. composer.


Definition of 'cage' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) cage, coop
an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

2. (noun) cage
something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement

3. (noun) Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.
United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)

4. (noun) cage
the net that is the goal in ice hockey

5. (verb) batting cage, cage
a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice

6. (verb) cage, cage in
confine in a cage
"The animal was caged"


Definition of 'cage' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) cage
a container with bars for an animal to live in


Definition of 'cage' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) cage
a box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals

2. (noun) cage
a place of confinement for malefactors

3. (noun) cage
an outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase

4. (noun) cage
a skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve

5. (noun) cage
a wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes

6. (noun) cage
the box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft

7. (noun) cage
the drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim

8. (noun) cage
the catcher's wire mask

9. (verb) cage
to confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine


Translation of 'cage' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: 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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