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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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Past participle: caged
Gerund: caging
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cage
A net cage within which discus and hammer events are undertaken.
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Noun | 1. | cage - 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 | |
Verb | 1. | cage - confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" |
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cage
verb
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
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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]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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?.
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
(of lift) → Aufzug m; (Min) → Förderkorb m
vt (also cage up) → in einen Käfig sperren, einsperren
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cage
(keidʒ) noun1. 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Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009