different between cade vs cage

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.

Adjective

cade (not comparable)

1. (of an animal) abandoned by its mother and reared by hand

Verb

cade (third-person singular simple present cades, present participle cading, simple past and past participle caded)

1. To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.

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Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. An animal brought up or nourished by hand.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French cade or Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.

Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. western prickly juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle French cade (“barrel”), from Latin cadus (“bottle, jar”).

Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. (archaic) A cask or barrel.

   A cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.

Usage notes

• Used in the British Book of Rates for a determinate number of some sort of fish.

References

This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

Anagrams

• CEDA, aced, dace, deca-, ecad

Interlingua

Verb

cade

1. present of cader
2. imperative of cader

Italian

Verb

cade

1. third-person singular present of cadere

Anagrams

• ceda
• deca

Latin

Verb

cade

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cad?

Noun

cade

1. vocative singular of cadus

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (j?da).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?????d?/

Noun

cade f (Arabic spelling ?????)

1. road, street

Declension

Derived terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of jail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

cage (plural cages)

1. An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
2. The passenger compartment of a lift.
3. (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
4. (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
5. (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
6. (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
7. An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
8. (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
9. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
10. (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
11. (baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
12. (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cage (third-person singular simple present cages, present participle caging, simple past and past participle caged)

1. To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
2. (figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
3. (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.

4. To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• cega

French

Etymology

From Old French cage, from Latin cavea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/

Noun

cage f (plural cages)

1. cage

   cage d'escalier - staircase

2. (soccer, colloquial) area, penalty area

Derived terms

Further reading

• “cage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• kage, gage

Etymology

From Old French cage, from Latin cavea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?d?(?)/

Noun

cage (plural cages)

1. A cage or pen.
2. A cell, enclosure or room of diminutive proportions.
3. A platform or deck.

Descendants

• English: cage
• Scots: cage

References

• “c??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.