cage

English

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A cage

Etymology

From Old French cage, from Latin cavea

Pronunciation

• IPA: /keɪdʒ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

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.

Translations

enclosure

• Albanian: kafaz (sq) m
• Arabic: قَفَص (ar) (qafaṣ) m

  Egyptian Arabic: قفص (ʔafaṣ) m

• Armenian: վանդակ (hy) (vandak)
• Asturian: xaula (ast)
• Azeri: qəfəs (az)
• Belarusian: клетка (be) (klétka) f
• Breton: kaoued (br) f
• Bulgarian: клетка (bg) (klétka) f, кафез (bg) (káfez) m
• Catalan: gàbia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 籠子 (cmn), 笼子 (cmn) (lóngzi), 籠 (cmn), 笼 (cmn) (lóng)

• Czech: klec (cs) f
• Danish: bur (da) n
• Dutch: kooi (nl) c
• Estonian: puur (et)
• Finnish: häkki (fi)
• French: cage (fr) f
• Galician: gaiola (gl) f, xaula (gl) f
• Georgian: გალია (ka) (galia)
• German: Käfig (de) m
• Greek: κλουβί (el) (klouví)
• Hebrew: כְּלוּב (he) (kluv) m
• Hindi: क़फ़स (hi) (qafas)
• Hungarian: ketrec (hu)
• Icelandic: búr (is) n
• Ido: kajo
• Indonesian: sangkar (id)

• Italian: gabbia (it) f
• Japanese: 檻 (ja) (おり, ori), 篭 (ja) (かご, kago), ケージ (ja) (kēji)
• Korean: 우리 (ko) (uri)
• Kurdish: rekeh (ku) f, qefes (ku) f

  Sorani: قه‌فه‌س (ku)

• Latvian: būris (lv) m
• Lithuanian: narvas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Käfeg (lb) m
• Macedonian: кафез (mk) (káfez) m
• Malay: sangkar (ms)
• Occitan: gàbia (oc) f
• Persian: قفس (fa) (qafas)
• Polish: klatka (pl) f
• Portuguese: gaiola (pt) f, jaula (pt) f
• Romanian: cușcă (ro)
• Russian: клетка (ru) (klétka) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крлетка (sh) f, кавез (sh) m

  Roman: krletka (sh) f, kavez (sh) m

• Slovak: klietka (sk) f
• Slovene: kletka (sl) f
• Spanish: jaula (es) f
• Thai: กรง (th) (grohng)
• Turkish: kafes (tr)
• Ukrainian: клітка (uk) (klítka) f
• Urdu: قفس (ur) (qafas)
• Vietnamese: lồng (vi), cái lồng (vi), chuồng (vi), cái chuồng (vi)
• Volapük: cek (vo)

lift compartment

• Bulgarian: кабина (bg) (kabína) f
• Dutch: liftkooi (nl), kooi (nl)
• French: cage (fr) f

• Italian: cabina (it) f
• Macedonian: кабина (mk) (kabína) f
• Russian: кабина (ru) (kabína) f

Derived terms

• birdcage
• cageling
• cagey
• roll cage

Verb

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

Derived terms

• caged in
• uncage
• caging list
• rattle someone's cage

Translations

to put into a cage

• Dutch: opsluiten in een kooi (nl), kooien (nl)

• French: encager (fr)

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French

Etymology

From Old French cage, from Latin cavea

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kaʒ/, X-SAMPA: /kaZ/

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Noun

cage f (plural cages)

1. cage

   "La Cage aux Folles" -- The Bird Cage

2. (soccer, colloquial) area, penalty area

Related terms

• caja
• cajon
• cave
• cavity