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cage
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)
- An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
- (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
- (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
- (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
- (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- (baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
- (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
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Verb
cage (third-person singular simple present cages, present participle caging, simple past and past participle caged)
- To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- (figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- 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
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Anagrams
- cega
French
Etymology
From Old French cage, from Latin cavea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka?/
Noun
cage f (plural cages)
- cage
- cage d'escalier - staircase
- (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)
- A cage or pen.
- A cell, enclosure or room of diminutive proportions.
- 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.
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cresset
English
Etymology
From Old French crasset, cresset (“sort of lamp or torch”); perhaps of Old Dutch or Old High German origin, and akin to English cruse, French creuset (“crucible”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??s?t/
Noun
cresset (plural cressets)
- A metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination.
- 1835, William Wordsworth, Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off St. Bees' Head, on the coast of Cumberland
- As a cresset true that darts its length / Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength.
- 1835, William Wordsworth, Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off St. Bees' Head, on the coast of Cumberland
- (coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
- 1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII
- We reach'd the lofty turret's base, our eyes / its height ascended, where we mark'd uphung / two cressets and another saw from far
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- 1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII
Translations
See also
- brazier
Anagrams
- Secrest, resects, secrets
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