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cage

 (kāj)
n.
1. A structure for confining birds or animals, enclosed on at least one side by a grating of wires or bars that lets in air and light.
2. A barred room or fenced enclosure for confining prisoners.
3. An enclosing openwork structure: placed a protective cage over the sapling; a bank teller's cage.
4. A skeletal support, as for a building; a framework.
5. An elevator car.
6.
a. Baseball A batting cage.
b. Sports A goal, as in hockey or soccer, made of a net attached to a frame.
tr.v. caged, cag·ing, cag·es
To put or confine in or as if in a cage. See Synonyms at enclose.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cavea.]
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cage

(keɪdʒ)
n
1.
a. an enclosure, usually made with bars or wire, for keeping birds, monkeys, mice, etc
b. (as modifier): cage bird.
2. a thing or place that confines or imprisons
3. something resembling a cage in function or structure: the rib cage.
4. the enclosed platform of a lift, esp as used in a mine
5. (Mechanical Engineering) engineering a skeleton ring device that ensures that the correct amount of space is maintained between the individual rollers or balls in a rolling bearing
6. (Basketball) informal the basket used in basketball
7. (Hockey (Field & Ice)) informal the goal in ice hockey
8. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) US a steel framework on which guns are supported
9. rattle someone's cage informal to upset or anger someone
vb
(tr) to confine in or as in a cage
[C13: from Old French, from Latin cavea enclosure, from cavus hollow]

Cage

(keɪdʒ)
n
(Biography) John. 1912–92, US composer of experimental music for a variety of conventional, modified, or invented instruments. He evolved a type of music apparently undetermined by the composer, such as in Imaginary Landscape (1951) for 12 radio sets. Other works include Reunion (1968), Apartment Building 1776 (1976), and Europeras 3 and 4 (1990)
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cage

(keɪdʒ)

n., v. caged, cag•ing. n.
1. 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.
6. any skeleton framework, esp. in construction.
7. a movable mesh backstop used for baseball batting practice.
8. a frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.
v.t.
9. to put or confine in or as if in a cage.
[1175–1225; Middle English < Old French < Latin cavea birdcage, derivative of cavus hollow]
cage′like`, adj.

Cage

(keɪdʒ)

n.
John, 1912–92, U.S. composer.
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cage

- Came to English from Latin cavea, "enclosure for animals; coop, hive, or stall"—or "dungeon."
See also related terms for stall.
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cage


Past participle: caged
Gerund: caging

Imperative
cage
cage
Present
I cage
you cage
he/she/it cages
we cage
you cage
they cage
Preterite
I caged
you caged
he/she/it caged
we caged
you caged
they caged
Present Continuous
I am caging
you are caging
he/she/it is caging
we are caging
you are caging
they are caging
Present Perfect
I have caged
you have caged
he/she/it has caged
we have caged
you have caged
they have caged
Past Continuous
I was caging
you were caging
he/she/it was caging
we were caging
you were caging
they were caging
Past Perfect
I had caged
you had caged
he/she/it had caged
we had caged
you had caged
they had caged
Future
I will cage
you will cage
he/she/it will cage
we will cage
you will cage
they will cage
Future Perfect
I will have caged
you will have caged
he/she/it will have caged
we will have caged
you will have caged
they will have caged
Future Continuous
I will be caging
you will be caging
he/she/it will be caging
we will be caging
you will be caging
they will be caging
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been caging
you have been caging
he/she/it has been caging
we have been caging
you have been caging
they have been caging
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been caging
you will have been caging
he/she/it will have been caging
we will have been caging
you will have been caging
they will have been caging
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been caging
you had been caging
he/she/it had been caging
we had been caging
you had been caging
they had been caging
Conditional
I would cage
you would cage
he/she/it would cage
we would cage
you would cage
they would cage
Past Conditional
I would have caged
you would have caged
he/she/it would have caged
we would have caged
you would have caged
they would have caged
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cage

A net cage within which discus and hammer events are undertaken.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.cage - an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be keptcage - an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
birdcage - a cage in which a bird can be kept
enclosure - a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose
hutch - a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
squirrel cage - cage with a cylindrical framework that rotates as a small animal runs inside it
2.cage - something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
constraint, restraint - the state of being physically constrained; "dogs should be kept under restraint"
iron cage - a cage from which there is no escape
3.Cage - United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
4.cage - the net that is the goal in ice hockey
net - a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey)
5.cage - a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
baseball equipment - equipment used in playing baseball
Verb1.cage - confine in a cage; "The animal was caged"
detain, confine - deprive of freedom; take into confinement
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cage

noun
1. enclosure, pen, coop, hutch, pound, corral (U.S.) I hate to see animals being kept in cages.
verb
1. shut up, confine, restrain, imprison, lock up, mew, incarcerate, fence in, impound, coop up, immure, pound Don't you think it's cruel to cage wild creatures?
rattle someone's cage annoy, anger, bother, provoke, bug (informal), needle (informal), irritate, tease, harass, hassle (informal), aggravate (informal), gall, madden, ruffle, exasperate, nettle, vex, irk, rile, harry, get under your skin (informal), get on your nerves (informal), get up your nose (informal), piss you off (taboo slang), get your goat (slang), get on your wick (Brit. slang), put your back up Ignore him - he's just trying to rattle your cage.
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cage

verb
To confine within a limited area:
coop (in or up), enclose, fence (in), immure, mew (up), pen, shut in, shut up, wall (in or up).
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Translations
قَفَصهَيْكَلٌ قَفَصي الشَّكْليَحْبِسُ في قَفَص
klectežní kleczavřít do klece
burbure indemineelevator
häkki
kavez
kalitkába zár
búrlyftuklefisetja í búr
かご
새장
kabinakeltuvasnarvasnarvelisnarvelyje laikomas paukštis
būrisiesprostotkrātiņšlifta kabīnesprosts
chovať v klietke
kletka
bur
กรง
kafeskafese koymakmaden ocağı asansörü
lồng

cage

[keɪdʒ]
A. Njaula f; (in mine) → jaula f de ascensor
B. VTenjaular
like a caged tigercomo una fiera enjaulada
C. CPD cage(d) bird Npájaro m de jaula
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cage

[ˈkeɪdʒ]
n [animal] → cage f
to rattle sb's cage → faire suer qn
Who rattled your cage?
BUT Qu'est ce qui te prend?.
vt [+ animal] → mettre en cage; [+ person] → envoyer derrière les barreaux
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cage

n
Käfig m; (= small birdcage)Bauer nt or m; cage birdKäfigvogel m
(of lift)Aufzug m; (Min) → Förderkorb m
vt (also cage up)in einen Käfig sperren, einsperren
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cage

[keɪdʒ]
1. n (gen, in mine) → gabbia
2. vtmettere in gabbia
cage in vt + advingabbiare
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cage

(keidʒ) noun
1. a box of wood, wire etc for holding birds or animals. The lion has escaped from its cage; a bird-cage.
2. a lift in a mine.
verb
to put in a cage. Some people think that it is cruel to cage wild animals.
ˈcagebird noun
a bird, eg a canary, suitable for keeping in a cage.
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cage

قَفَص klec bur Käfig κλουβί jaula häkki cage kavez gabbia かご 새장 kooi bur klatka jaula клетка bur กรง kafes lồng 笼子
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References in classic literature ?
In a cage upon wheels they were tying a kid, so fastening it that when Numa seized the unfortunate creature, the door of the cage would drop behind him, making him a prisoner.
He brought it home in a cage, and asked his wife to put it in her room, and take great care of it while he was away.
Quite at the top, and just before the rocky face of the cliff sprang above the foliage, we found that strange house which was known in the country as "Cluny's Cage." The trunks of several trees had been wattled across, the intervals strengthened with stakes, and the ground behind this barricade levelled up with earth to make the floor.
THE orang-outang in the big iron cage lashed to the sheep-pen began the discussion.
In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the golden bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shabby cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.' Then the fox stretched out his tail again, and the young man sat himself down, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
I turned again in time to see the gate of a nearby cage thrown open and three monstrous white apes spring into the arena.
The lion-and-tiger man, who had clawed his own face with the beast-claws of his nature, whimpered protest when he saw his employer's preparation to enter Hannibal's cage; for the preparation consisted merely in equipping himself with a broom- handle.
As "the Fighting Wolf" he was known far and wide, and the cage in which he was kept on the steam-boat's deck was usually surrounded by curious men.
It seemed to me that I had once been a prisoner in a hideous cage of torture, and then the door had been opened and I could get out.
His business in life, whereby he lived, was to appear in a cage of performing leopards before vast audiences, and to thrill those audiences by certain exhibitions of nerve for which his employers rewarded him on a scale commensurate with the thrills he produced.
Don Quixote was seated in the cage, with his hands tied and his feet stretched out, leaning against the bars as silent and as patient as if he were a stone statue and not a man of flesh.
Carthoris fumbled in his pocket pouch as though in search of them, at the same time entering the cage. Kar Komak followed him, closing the door.