different between cage vs cote

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) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ko?t/

Etymology 1

From the Old English cote, the feminine form of cot (“small house”); doublet of cot (in the sense of “cottage”) and more distantly related to cottage. Cognate to Dutch kot.

Noun

cote (plural cotes)

1. A cottage or hut.
2. A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.

Synonyms

• shed

Related terms

• dovecote
• sheepcote

Etymology 2

See quote.

Verb

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)

1. Obsolete form of quote.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Nicholas Udall to this entry?)

Etymology 3

Probably related to French côté (“side”) via Middle French costé.

Verb

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)

1. To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
   • 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 37:

     [...]strength to pull down a bull—swiftness to cote an antelope.

Anagrams

• Ceto, OTEC, ecto-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?t/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus

Noun

cote f (plural cotes)

1. call number
2. ratings, popularity, approval rating (of a politician)
3. (architecture) dimension
4. (finance, stock market) quote
5. (horse racing, gambling) odds
6. (finance) tax assessment

Synonyms

• (tax assessment): quote-part

Derived terms

• avoir la cote

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cote

1. inflection of coter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

From Latin c?tem, accusative of c?s.

Noun

cote f (plural coti)

1. sharpening stone
2. hone

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko?.te/, [?ko?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.te/, [?k??t??]

Noun

c?te

1. ablative singular of c?s

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French cote, cotte, from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

Alternative forms

• coote, coete, coyt, kote, coot, koote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??t(?)/

Noun

cote (plural cotes)

2. A coat, especially one worn as an undergarment or a base layer.
3. A coat or gown bearing somebody's heraldic symbols.
4. A coating or external layer; that which surrounds the outside of something.

Related terms

• cote armure

Descendants

• English: coat
• Scots: coat

References

• “c?te, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Etymology 2

Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.

Alternative forms

• coote, koote, kuytt, cute, kote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?t(?)/

Noun

cote (plural cootes)

2. coot (Fulica atra)
3. seagull (bird of the family Laridae)

Descendants

• English: coot
• Scots: cuit

References

• “c??te, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

cote m

1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cote m

1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

Old French

Noun

cote f (oblique plural cotes, nominative singular cote, nominative plural cotes)

1. Alternative form of cotte

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cate, catte

Etymology

co (“how”) +? de (“from it”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kod?e/

Particle

cote

1. of what sort is…?
2. what is…?
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^c36

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, ?ISBN, §§ 462, 466

Portuguese

Verb

cote

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cotar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cotar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cotar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cotar