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Definition of squirrel cage in English: squirrel cagenoun 1A rotating cylindrical cage in which a small captive animal can exercise as on a treadmill. Example sentencesExamples - I could blame it on my stinking corporate day job, which admittedly has been keeping me scrambling around like the proverbial mouse in the squirrel cage.
- A defining trait of the system is that it is a kind of giant squirrel cage.
- The animal is placed inside a big squirrel cage which revolves when the creature runs.
- 1.1 A monotonous or repetitive activity or way of life.
running madly about in a squirrel cage of activity Example sentencesExamples - Few things draw us out of the revolving squirrel cages of our minds and out into the nerve endings of our skin better than that.
- In her 1963 bestseller The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan wrote about ‘the problem that has no name,’ the dissatisfaction that housewives experienced as trapped in the ‘squirrel cage’ of marriage.
- Schor talks about capitalism's ‘squirrel cage,’ the work-and-spend middle-class affliction instilled by capitalism, but in the end she doubts whether this cycle can be radically disrupted.
- 1.2 A form of rotor used in small electric motors, resembling a cylindrical cage.
as modifier a squirrel-cage fan Example sentencesExamples - The majority of squirrel cage induction motors employ an integrally cast aluminum rotor.
- Back in my misspent youth I had the fastest car in school, a '74 Vega GT sleeper with a 350 LT1 jammed into that little compartment where the squirrel-cage four banger originally went.
- Additionally, some Maytag dehumidifier models use ‘squirrel cage’ types of fans for blowing out the dried air, making Maytag dehumidifiers more efficient than most.
- Single-layer films are most common, commercial growers often set up a system with two layers of polyethylene and inflate an airspace in between (with a small squirrel-cage fan), which provides some insulation.
- Mere stuff - transistors, pulleys, squirrel cages, and the like - obviously cannot really experience love or redness or even feeling unsatisfied by an argument.
Definition of squirrel cage in US English: squirrel cagenoun 1A rotating cylindrical cage in which a small captive animal can exercise as on a treadmill. Example sentencesExamples - The animal is placed inside a big squirrel cage which revolves when the creature runs.
- I could blame it on my stinking corporate day job, which admittedly has been keeping me scrambling around like the proverbial mouse in the squirrel cage.
- A defining trait of the system is that it is a kind of giant squirrel cage.
- 1.1 A monotonous or repetitive activity or way of life.
running madly about in a squirrel cage of activity Example sentencesExamples - Schor talks about capitalism's ‘squirrel cage,’ the work-and-spend middle-class affliction instilled by capitalism, but in the end she doubts whether this cycle can be radically disrupted.
- Few things draw us out of the revolving squirrel cages of our minds and out into the nerve endings of our skin better than that.
- In her 1963 bestseller The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan wrote about ‘the problem that has no name,’ the dissatisfaction that housewives experienced as trapped in the ‘squirrel cage’ of marriage.
- 1.2 A form of rotor used in small electric motors, resembling a cylindrical cage.
Example sentencesExamples - The majority of squirrel cage induction motors employ an integrally cast aluminum rotor.
- Single-layer films are most common, commercial growers often set up a system with two layers of polyethylene and inflate an airspace in between (with a small squirrel-cage fan), which provides some insulation.
- Mere stuff - transistors, pulleys, squirrel cages, and the like - obviously cannot really experience love or redness or even feeling unsatisfied by an argument.
- Back in my misspent youth I had the fastest car in school, a '74 Vega GT sleeper with a 350 LT1 jammed into that little compartment where the squirrel-cage four banger originally went.
- Additionally, some Maytag dehumidifier models use ‘squirrel cage’ types of fans for blowing out the dried air, making Maytag dehumidifiers more efficient than most.
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