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Definitions for Cage

[1] a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
[2] anything that confines or imprisons; prison.
[3] something resembling a cage in structure, as for a cashier or bank teller.
[4] the car or enclosed platform of an elevator.
[5] Mining . an enclosed platform for raising and lowering people and cars in a mine shaft.
[6] any skeleton framework.
[7] Baseball . a movable backstop for use mainly in batting practice.
[8] a frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.
[9] Basketball Older Use . the basket.
[10] a loose, sheer or lacy overdress worn with a slip or a close-fitting dress.
[11] Ordnance . a steel framework for supporting guns.
[12] Machinery . retainer1(def 3) .
[13] to put or confine in or as if in a cage.
[14] Sports . to shoot (as a puck) into a cage so as to score a goal.
[15] John, 1912–1992, U.S. composer.
[16] an enclosure, usually made with bars or wire, for keeping birds, monkeys, mice, etc (as modifier ) cagebird
[17] a thing or place that confines or imprisons
[18] something resembling a cage in function or structure the rib cage
[19] the enclosed platform of a lift, esp as used in a mine
[20] 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
[21] informal the basket used in basketball
[22] informal the goal in ice hockey
[23] US a steel framework on which guns are supported
[24] rattle someone's cage informal to upset or anger someone
[25] (tr) to confine in or as in a cage
[26] 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)

Words related to Cage

crate, pen, jail, enclosure, coop, corral, fold, mew, pound, pinfold, incarcerate, hem, envelop, immure, enclose, imprison, restrain, confine, impound

Words nearby Cage

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Origin of Cage

1175–1225; Middle English < Old French < Latin cavea birdcage, equivalent to cav(us ) hollow + -ea, feminine of -eus adj. suffix

Other words from Cage

cage·less , adjective
cage·like , adjective
re·cage , verb (used with object), re·caged, re·cag·ing.

Word origin for Cage

C13: from Old French, from Latin cavea enclosure, from cavus hollow

Synonyms for Cage

crate, enclosure, jail, pen, coop, corral, fold, mew, pinfold, pound