cage

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A cage

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From Old French cage, from Latin cavea

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cage (plural cages)

  1. an enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
    We keep a bird in a cage.
    The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.
    The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage.
  2. the passenger compartment of a lift
  3. (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo)
the goal.
  1. (US derogatory slang) automobile
  2. (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
  3. (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.

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cage (third-person singular simple present cages, present participle caging, simple past and past participle caged)

  1. to put into a cage
  2. to keep in a cage
  3. (advertising, politics) To track individual responses to direct mail.
  4. (figuratively) to restrict someone's movement or creativity

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French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old French cage, from Latin cavea

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cage f (plural cages)

  1. cage
    "La Cage aux Folles" -- The Bird Cage
  2. (soccer, colloquial) area, penalty area

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