different between cage vs beg

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.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /b??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English beggen, assimilation from Old English *becgan, *bedcan, *bedican, syncopated variants of bedecian (“to beg”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *bedagô (“petitioner; requestor; beggar”), from *bed?, *bed? (“prayer; request”). Related to North Frisian b?dagi (“to pray”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (bidagwa, “beggar”), Old English biddan (“to ask”). More at bid, bead. See Norwegian Bokmål be (“beg, ask”).

Verb

beg (third-person singular simple present begs, present participle begging, simple past and past participle begged)

1. (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.

2. (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.

   Synonym: supplicate

   • [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5

     But that same day came Sam Tewkesbury to the Why Not? about nightfall, and begged a glass of rum, being, as he said, 'all of a shake' [...]

3. (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
4. (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).

   Antonym: set aside

5. (transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
   • a. 1612, John Harington, Epigrams

     Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.

Usage notes

This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

• beg the question
• beg to differ
• go begging
• soft begging

Translations

Noun

beg (plural begs)

1. The act of begging; an imploring request.

See also

• beggar

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (beg).

Noun

beg (plural begs)

2. A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

beg

1. (knitting) Abbreviation of beginning.
   • 2005, DRG Dynamic Resource, House of White Birches, Big Book of Knit Hats & Scarves for Everyone (page 34)

     Knit with MC until work measures 3 inches from beg.

Further reading

• beg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• GBE, GEB, Gbe, Geb, bge

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (beg).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?x/
• Hyphenation: beg

Noun

beg m (plural begs)

1. (historical) Alternative form of bei.

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag.

Noun

beg (Jawi spelling ???)

1. bag

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish bec, from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small”).

Adjective

beg (plural beggey, comparative loo, superlative sloo)

1. small

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (“ruler”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bê?/

Noun

b?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) master, lord

Declension

Derived terms

• bekstvo
• bežanje
• prebeg

References

• “beg” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *b?g?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bé?k/

Noun

b??g m inan

1. run
2. getaway
3. escape
4. withdrawal
5. (phrase) flight

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Turkish bey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bé?k/

Noun

b??g m anim

1. bey (Turkish governor)

Inflection

Further reading

• “beg”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English beg.

Noun

beg (nominative plural begs)

1. request, an action of begging

Declension

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC b?æk?).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pe?k?/
• Tone numbers: beg⁸
• Hyphenation: beg

Adjective

beg (Sawndip form ?, old orthography beg)

1. (bound) white

Adverb

beg (Sawndip form ?, old orthography beg)

1. in vain; for nothing
2. for free; free of charge