cage

Meaning

1. An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
2. The passenger compartment of a lift.
3. The goal.
4. (slang) An automobile.
5. Something that hinders freedom.
6. (slang) A prison or prison cell.
7. The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
8. An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
9. A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
10. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
11. The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
12. The catcher's wire mask.
13. A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
14. In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.

bastile

cage in

batting cage

cashiering department

pound up

commit to prison

large basket

gaol cell

brake application

rod basket

cage conductor

protecting case

shielding can

bird cage

captivate

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/keɪd͡ʒ/

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.

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