cage

noun

1. a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
2. anything that confines or imprisons; prison.
3. something resembling a cage in structure, as for a cashier or bank teller.
4. the car or enclosed platform of an elevator.
5. Mining. an enclosed platform for raising and lowering people and cars in a mine shaft.
6. any skeleton framework.
7. Baseball. a movable backstop for use mainly in batting practice.
8. a frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.
9. Basketball Older Use. the basket.
10. a loose, sheer or lacy overdress worn with a slip or a close-fitting dress.
11. Ordnance. a steel framework for supporting guns.
12. Machinery. retainer¹(def 3).

verb (used with object), caged, cag·ing.

13. to put or confine in or as if in a cage.
14. Sports. to shoot (as a puck) into a cage so as to score a goal.

noun

1. John,1912–1992, U.S. composer.

noun

1. 1. an enclosure, usually made with bars or wire, for keeping birds, monkeys, mice, etc
   2. (as modifier)cagebird
2. a thing or place that confines or imprisons
3. something resembling a cage in function or structurethe rib cage
4. the enclosed platform of a lift, esp as used in a mine
5. 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
6. informal the basket used in basketball
7. informal the goal in ice hockey
8. US a steel framework on which guns are supported
9. rattle someone’s cage informal to upset or anger someone

verb

10. (tr) to confine in or as in a cage

noun

1. 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)

n.

early 13c., from Old French cage “cage, prison; retreat, hideout” (12c.), from Latin cavea “hollow place, enclosure for animals, coop, hive, stall, dungeon, spectators’ seats in the theater” (cf. Italian gabbia “basket for fowls, coop;” see cave (n.)).

v.

1570s, from cage (n.). Related: Caged; caging.