Meaning of Cage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
2. A surname from French.
3. The passenger compartment of a lift.
4. The goal.
5. An automobile.
   US, derogatory, slang
6. Something that hinders freedom.
   figuratively
7. A prison or prison cell.
   slang
8. The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
9. An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
10. A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
11. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
12. The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
13. The protective wire mask at the front of a helmet.
14. A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
15. 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.

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Examples

“We keep a bird in a cage.”

“The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.”

“The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage.”

“For his father had / never a house but the cage.”

“Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage.”

“Schwartz examines with dignity and tenderness the battles within and without of […] families, created and biological, and the cages and freedom they can provide.”

“My body is a cage / That keeps me from dancing with the one I love / But my mind holds the key”

“The 'out of the closet' lesbians and gay men here in the Iowa Cages are harassed and discriminated daily by oppressive pigs, believe me, I know, as a lesbian I've experienced it first hand and seen my fellow lesbian and gay friends oppressed to where I'm ready to explode.”

“Cage, in carpentry, is an outer work of timber inclosing another within it. Thus the cage of a stair is the wooden inclosure that encircles it.”

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