cage
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
anything that confines or imprisons; prison.
something resembling a cage in structure, as for a cashier or bank teller.
the car or enclosed platform of an elevator.
Mining. an enclosed platform for raising and lowering people and cars in a mine shaft.
any skeleton framework.
Baseball. a movable backstop for use mainly in batting practice.
a frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.
Basketball: Older Use. the basket.
a loose, sheer or lacy overdress worn with a slip or a close-fitting dress.
Ordnance. a steel framework for supporting guns.
Machinery. retainer1 (def. 3).
to put or confine in or as if in a cage.
Sports. to shoot (as a puck) into a cage so as to score a goal.
Origin of cage
1Other words for cage
Other words from cage
- cageless, adjective
- cagelike, adjective
- re·cage, verb (used with object), re·caged, re·cag·ing.
Other definitions for Cage (2 of 2)
John, 1912–1992, U.S. composer.
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How to use cage in a sentence
The 26 were beaten by the bailiffs as they filed into a caged dock, sobbing, on Dec. 21.
Sisi Is Persecuting, Prosecuting, and Publicly Shaming Egypt’s Gays | Bel Trew | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGriffin Dunne directed that episode and he wanted me to feel like a caged animal.
Julianna Margulies's Favorite 'The Good Wife' Scenes | Julianna Margulies | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThough it was exorcised and is now caged, it apparently still moves about and growls at visitors.
Beware: Connecticut’s Museum of the Occult May Kill You | Nina Strochlic | July 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe was known for her versatility, and was nominated for her performances in Caged, Detective Story, and Interrupted Melody.
The Deaths You Missed This Year | Malcolm Jones, Jimmy So, Michael Moynihan, Caitlin Dickson | December 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTYou might think that the folkies were all struggling to survive, bitter and starving like a pack of caged dogs.
Fact Vs. Fiction in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’: The Real Story of Folk is Far Less Dejected Than the Movie | Jimmy So | December 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
I ask you now to play upon it; you refuse, and she paced the room like a caged tigress.
The Fifth String | John Philip SousaSo still was the place that the caged cricket hanging from the eaves of Um's distant room beat time like an elfin metronome.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaIn one such startled interval of waking her caged cricket had given out its plaintive cry.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaThen does the soul grow weary, and restless as well; it is like unto a bird that is caged whose time for migration has come.
The Devil-Tree of El Dorado | Frank AubreyAll the smoke went straight up into the sky, and several caged birds on the route were singing loudly outside their windows.
Happy House | Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg
British Dictionary definitions for cage (1 of 2)
/ (keɪdʒ) /
an enclosure, usually made with bars or wire, for keeping birds, monkeys, mice, etc
(as modifier): cagebird
a thing or place that confines or imprisons
something resembling a cage in function or structure: the rib cage
the enclosed platform of a lift, esp as used in a mine
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
informal the basket used in basketball
informal the goal in ice hockey
US a steel framework on which guns are supported
rattle someone's cage informal to upset or anger someone
(tr) to confine in or as in a cage
Origin of cage
1British Dictionary definitions for Cage (2 of 2)
/ (keɪdʒ) /
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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