Cage
[keɪdʒ] or [kedʒ]
Definition
(noun.) an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept.
(noun.) the net that is the goal in ice hockey.
(noun.) United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992).
(noun.) something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement.
(verb.) confine in a cage; 'The animal was caged'.
Inputed by Conrad--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
(n.) A place of confinement for malefactors
(n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
(n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
(n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
(n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
(n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
(n.) The catcher's wire mask.
(v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Typist: Remington
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Imprison, immure, confine, incarcerate, cabin, crib
ANT:Liberate, free, dismiss, unbar
Checker: Newman
Definition
n. a place of confinement: a box made of wire and wood for holding birds or small animals: (mining) a frame with one or more platforms for cars used in hoisting in a vertical shaft: the framework supporting a peal of bells.—v.t. to imprison in a cage—p.adj. Caged confined.—ns. Cage′ling a bird kept in a cage; Cage′-work open work like the bars of a cage.
Typed by Avery
Unserious Contents or Definition
In your dreaming if you see a cageful of birds, you will be the happy possessor of immense wealth and many beautiful and charming children. To see only one bird, you will contract a desirable and wealthy marriage. No bird indicates a member of the family lost, either by elopement or death. To see wild animals caged, denotes that you will triumph over your enemies and misfortunes. If you are in the cage with them, it denotes harrowing scenes from accidents while traveling.
Inputed by Heinrich
Examples
- But I will drop it in that gorge like a broken bird cage. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- By force of circumstance, because all the world combined to make the cage unbreakable, he had been too strong for her, he had kept her prisoner. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And a bird-cage, sir,' says Sam. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- From every cage that harboured red men a thunderous shout went up in answer to his exhortation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In the breakfast-room I found my aunt's favourite canary singing in his cage. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The cage allowed air to pass and light to escape, and although by the combustion of the fire-damp the wire gauze might become red hot, it was still efficient as a safety-lamp. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The guard lolled before the unbarred gate of the cage which confined me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- On a table, at one side of the door, stood the cage, so well known to me by description, which contained his white mice. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Bear with me, my angel, and remove them to their travelling cage upstairs. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Thus, when the figure of a bird is painted on one side, and an empty cage on the other, by rapidly turning the card, the bird appears to be in the cage. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- At a signal from Dak Kova the doors of two cages were thrown open and a dozen green Martian females were driven to the center of the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Everybody talked, not very loudly, but merrily, and the canary birds sang shrill in their high-hung cages. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There's some of the birds flown from the cages. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The old man, looking up at the cages after another look at us, went through the list. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He paused a moment before the cages, with upraised sword. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The racks without your cages are filled with blades. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Then a figure broke from one of the cages behind them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I could not have imagined then that you would want to sell our furniture, and take a house in Bride Street, where the rooms are like cages. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The other apes turned now upon me, and as I stood facing them a sullen roar from the audience answered the wild cheers from the cages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The caged eagle, whose gold-ringed eyes cruelty has extinguished, might look as looked that sightless Samson. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Shortly after we had been caged the amphitheater began to fill and within an hour every available part of the seating space was occupied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The air that would be healthful to the earth, the water that would enrich it, the heat that would ripen it, tear it when caged up. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I asked, for his manner suggested that it was some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They are caged up with all the others. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The dismal wind was muttering round the house, the tide was flapping at the shore, and I had a feeling that we were caged and threatened. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And then, he added, whispering and grinning, if that ever was to happen--which it won't--the birds that have never been caged would kill 'em. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Checker: Mortimer