英语词汇“cageling”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cage /kāj/

noun

A compartment or enclosure, usu made from bars and wires, for confining captive animals and birds

A prison

A frame with a platform or platforms used in hoisting in a vertical shaft, eg in a mine or lift

A framework that encloses, protects or supports

Any structure resembling a cage in function

A structure of steel supports and netting to protect garden fruit and vegetables from birds

A squirrel's nest (dialect)

A goal, consisting of a frame with a net attached, as in ice hockey

An enclosed area used for batting practice (baseball)

transitive verb

cagˈing

caged

To imprison in a cage

ORIGIN: Fr, from L cavea a hollow place

caged adjective

Confined

cageˈling noun

A bird that is or has been kept in a cage

cageˈ-bird noun

A bird of a kind habitually kept in a cage

cageˈ-cup noun

A kind of glass bowl of late Roman times, with a filigree-type glass decoration attached to the bowl by tiny struts (also diatrēˈtum)

cage fighter noun

cage fighting noun

A form of ultimate fighting (qv under ultimate) in which the opponents fight inside a wire enclosure

cageˈwork noun

Open-work like the bars of a cage

cage in (usu figurative)

To imprison

rattle someone's (or the) cage (informal)

To stir (someone) up, provoke (someone's) anger or irritation