cage
An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.
Noun 4 meanings
An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.
“We keep a bird in a cage.”
The passenger compartment of a lift.
The goal.
Something that hinders freedom.
Verb 4 meanings
To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
To immobilize an artificial horizon.
“To prevent damage to its gimbal mountings during extreme aerobatic maneuvers, the navball should be caged before the start of a display sequence.”
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.
CAGE at a glance
CAGE has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (C 3 + A 1 + G 2 + E 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,669 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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