Found 3 items, similar to CAGE.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: cage
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: cage
cage
n 1: an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or
animals are kept [syn:
coop]
2: something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts
movement
3: United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
[syn:
John Cage,
John Milton Cage Jr.]
4: the net that is the goal in ice hockey
5: a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls
during batting practice [syn:
batting cage]
cage
v : confine in a cage;
“The animal was caged” [syn:
cage in]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cage
Cage
\Cage\, n. [F. cage, fr. L. cavea cavity, cage, fr. cavus
hollow. Cf.
Cave, n.,
Cajole,
Gabion.]
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1. A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood
or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
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In his cage, like parrot fine and gay. --Cowper.
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2. A place of confinement for malefactors --Shak.
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Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage. --Lovelace.
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3. (Carp.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something
within it; as, the cage of a staircase. --Gwilt.
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4. (Mach.)
(a) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece,
as a ball valve.
(b) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and
pipes.
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5. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or
elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
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6. (Mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting
whim.
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7. (Baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
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Cage
\Cage\ (k[=a]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Caged (k[=a]jd); p.
pr. & vb. n.
Caging.]
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
“Caged and starved to death.” --Cowper.
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