cage

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

cages

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

cage

past (v2)

caged

past participle (v3)

caged

present participle

caging

3rd person singular

cages

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.

   • The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.
   • For his father had / never a house but the cage.
   • The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage.

2. 2.The passenger compartment of a lift.

3. 3.The goal.

4. 4.Short for roll cage, a protective structure around the passenger compartment of a vehicle.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To imprison.(slang)

   • The serial killer was caged for life.

2. 2.To restrict someone's movement or creativity.

3. 3.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.

4. 4.To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.

   • The industrial practice of caging commercial laying hens has given caged housing a bad narne.
   • And the row of human captors, ever leering, They who caged me, Know their power and gloat on my captivity.
   • By caging chickens, farmers broke the cycle and had to busy themselves with feeding, cleaning and pest control activities.

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