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cage
1[ keyj ]
noun
- a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
Synonyms: , , ,
- anything that confines or imprisons; prison.
- something resembling a cage in structure, as for a cashier or bank teller.
- the car or enclosed platform of an elevator.
- Mining. an enclosed platform for raising and lowering people and cars in a mine shaft.
- any skeleton framework.
- Baseball. a movable backstop for use mainly in batting practice.
- a frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.
- Basketball: Older Use. the basket.
- a loose, sheer or lacy overdress worn with a slip or a close-fitting dress.
- Ordnance. a steel framework for supporting guns.
- Machinery. retainer 1( def 3 ).
verb (used with object)
- to put or confine in or as if in a cage.
- Sports. to shoot (as a puck) into a cage so as to score a goal.
Cage
2[ keyj ]
noun
- John, 1912–1992, U.S. composer.
cage
1/ °ì±ðɪ»åÏô /
noun
- an enclosure, usually made with bars or wire, for keeping birds, monkeys, mice, etc
- ( as modifier )
cagebird
- a thing or place that confines or imprisons
- something resembling a cage in function or structure
the rib cage
- the enclosed platform of a lift, esp as used in a mine
- engineering a skeleton ring device that ensures that the correct amount of space is maintained between the individual rollers or balls in a rolling bearing
- informal.the basket used in basketball
- informal.the goal in ice hockey
- a steel framework on which guns are supported
- rattle someone's cage informal.to upset or anger someone
verb
- tr to confine in or as in a cage
Cage
2/ °ì±ðɪ»åÏô /
noun
- CageJohn19121992MUSMUSIC: composer of experimental music John. 1912–92, US composer of experimental music for a variety of conventional, modified, or invented instruments. He evolved a type of music apparently undetermined by the composer, such as in Imaginary Landscape (1951) for 12 radio sets. Other works include Reunion (1968), Apartment Building 1776 (1976), and Europeras 3 and 4 (1990)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cage1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cage1
Example Sentences
Same went with the batting cages — the place many hitters and coaches spend much of their time before games, and they made near-universal requests for a second hitting tunnel.
Three men from south-east London who burgled a museum in Switzerland have been found guilty of a plot to murder a cage fighter who was shot in his kitchen.
But I’m not sure of the film’s intentions when Killian responds by flinging food, scaring Ken’s kids and pacing the room as though it were a cage.
“He lobbied hard, like he always does,†Roberts said of Freeman, who went to the batting cage before the game before being ruled out.
Hayayei, 36, died on 11 July 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training at Newham Leisure Centre in east London ahead of the World Para Athletics Championships.
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