cage
See also: Cage
English
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Etymology
From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea.
Pronunciation
Noun
cage (plural cages)
- 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.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, act 4, scene 2, lines 48–49:
- For his father had / never a house but the cage.
- 1642, Richard Lovelace, To Althea, from Prison, stanza 4, lines 1–2:
- Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage.
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
- (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
- (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
- (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- 1842, Joseph Gwilt, “A Glossary of Terms Used by Architects”, in An Encyclopædia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical[1], 2nd edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, published 1851, page 941:
- Cage, in carpentry, is an outer work of timber inclosing another within it. Thus the cage of a stair is the wooden inclosure that encircles it.
- (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
- (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- (baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
- (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
enclosure
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lift compartment
Verb
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- To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- 1923, Animal World: An Advocate of Humanity, page 33:
- And the row of human captors, ever leering, They who caged me, Know their power and gloat on my captivity.
- 2000, Bernard Livingston, Zoo: Animals, People, Places, →ISBN, page 95:
- Laying out the zoo on horseback, he went about making plans to combine his scrubby mesas and canyons with moats, and thereby eliminate caging many large animals—a revolutionary advance in American zoo design.
- 2010, Gail Damerow, Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 3rd Edition, →ISBN:
- The industrial practice of caging commercial laying hens has given caged housing a bad narne.
- 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
- Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
- 2018, Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi, & Stephen Hill, The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics, →ISBN:
- By caging chickens, farmers broke the cycle and had to busy themselves with feeding, cleaning and pest control activities.
- (figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- 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.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
to put into a cage
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Old French cage, from Latin cavea.
Pronunciation
Noun
cage f (plural cages)
- cage
- cage d'escalier - staircase
- (soccer, colloquial) area, penalty area
Further reading
- “cage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French cage, from Latin cavea.
Pronunciation
Noun
cage (plural cages)
Descendants
References
- “cāǧe (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.
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