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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cage /keɪdʒ/USA pronunciation n., v., caged, cag•ing. n. [countable] - a boxlike enclosure with wires or bars forming the sides, for keeping birds or animals:a bird cage.
- a prison.
- Mininga similar enclosure used like an elevator for workers at a construction site, etc.
- Sporta frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.
v. [~ + object] - to put or keep in or as if in a cage:They caged the escaped tiger.
caged, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cage (kāj),USA pronunciation n., v., caged, cag•ing. n. - a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
- anything that confines or imprisons;
prison. - something resembling a cage in structure, as for a cashier or bank teller.
- the car or enclosed platform of an elevator.
- Miningan enclosed platform for raising and lowering people and cars in a mine shaft.
- any skeleton framework.
- Sport[Baseball.]a movable backstop for use mainly in batting practice.
- Sporta frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.
- Sport[Basketball Older Use.]the basket.
- Clothinga loose, sheer or lacy overdress worn with a slip or a close-fitting dress.
- Military[Ordn.]a steel framework for supporting guns.
- Mechanical Engineering[Mach.]retainer1 (def. 3).
v.t. - to put or confine in or as if in a cage.
- Sportto shoot (as a puck) into a cage so as to score a goal.
- Latin cavea birdcage, equivalent. to cav(us) hollow + -ea, feminine of -eus adjective, adjectival suffix
- Old French
- Middle English 1175–1225
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged pen, coop, enclosure, pound.
Cage (kāj),USA pronunciation n. - Biographical John, born 1912, U.S. composer.
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