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CAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cage mean?
• CAGE (noun)
The noun CAGE has 5 senses:
1. an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
2. something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
3. United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
4. the net that is the goal in ice hockey
5. a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
Familiarity information: CAGE used as a noun is common.
• CAGE (verb)
The verb CAGE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: CAGE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
cage; coop
Hypernyms ("cage" is a kind of...):
enclosure (a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cage"):
birdcage (a cage in which a bird can be kept)
hutch (a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals)
squirrel cage (cage with a cylindrical framework that rotates as a small animal runs inside it)
Derivation:
cage (confine in a cage)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("cage" is a kind of...):
constraint; restraint (the state of being physically constrained)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cage"):
iron cage (a cage from which there is no escape)
Derivation:
cage (confine in a cage)
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Cage; John Cage; John Milton Cage Jr.
Instance hypernyms:
composer (someone who composes music as a profession)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The net that is the goal in ice hockey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cage" is a kind of...):
net (a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey))
Sense 5
Meaning:
A movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
batting cage; cage
Hypernyms ("cage" is a kind of...):
baseball equipment (equipment used in playing baseball)
Conjugation: |




Past simple: caged


Past participle: caged


-ing form: caging


Sense 1
Meaning:
Confine in a cage
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
cage; cage in
Context example:
The animal was caged
Hypernyms (to "cage" is one way to...):
confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They cage the animals
Derivation:
cage (an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept)
cage (something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement)
Context examples
With strength and determination like his, he might have done wild work before he was caged.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Then Hansel sprang like a bird from its cage when the door is opened.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
A dose calculation unit expressed in gram(s) per cage per period of time equal to seven days.
(Gram per Cage per Week, NCI Thesaurus)
They are located near the middle of your back, just below the rib cage.
(Kidney Diseases, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
Mr. Mills, who was a terrible fellow to fall asleep after dinner, had not yet gone out, and there was no bird-cage in the middle window.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per cage.
(Milliliter per Cage, NCI Thesaurus)
A dose calculation unit expressed in gram(s) per cage per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.
(Gram per Cage per Day, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of measure expressed in gram(s) per cage.
(Gram per Cage, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Again, the researchers traced the problem to contamination from damaged cages, but the effects this time were more subtle than before.
(Reproductive Problems Reported In Lab Mice after BPA Replacements in Plastics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A clathrate hydrate is a cage of water molecules surrounding a gas molecule.
(Dawn Finds Possible Ancient Ocean Remnants at Ceres, NASA)
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