English Explanatory Dictionary

cage

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.
  2. The passenger compartment of a lift.
  3. The goal.
  4. Short for roll cage, a protective structure around the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
  5. Synonym of automobile.
  6. Something that hinders freedom.
  7. A prison or prison cell.
  8. The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
  9. An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
  10. A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
  11. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
  12. The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
verb
  1. To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
  2. To imprison.
  3. To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
  4. To immobilize an artificial horizon.
  5. To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
name
  1. A surname from French.

Pronunciation

/keɪd͡ʒ/ en-us-cage.ogg

Word forms

cage cages kage caging caged

Etymology

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.

Synonyms

automobile

Derived words

baby cage battery cage batting cage bear cage birdcage bird-cage bone-cage bottle cage cage ball cagebelle cage bird cagebird cage box cage boxer cage boxing cage bra cage compound cage cup cage dance cage dancer cage dive cage diver cage diving cage effect cage fight cage fighter cage fighting cage-free cageful cage gear Cage Green cage home cageless cagelike cageling cage match cagemate cager cage stage cagewash cagework cagey chastity cage cock cage cope cage crow cage crush cage decage discage encage Faraday cage fish cage gilded cage goal cage homecage incage iron cage microcage nanocage orientation cage
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