cage
Pronunciation: /keɪd͡ʒ/
The English word “cage” has 19 meanings listed here.
noun
- An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- The goal.
- Synonym of automobile.
- Something that hinders freedom.
- A prison or prison cell.
- The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- 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.
- The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- The protective wire mask at the front of a helmet.
- A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
- In killer sudoku puzzles, a group of connecting cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
verb
- To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- To imprison.
- To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- 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.
Etymology
From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.
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