different between cage vs shed

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.

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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.

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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

• enPR: sh?d, IPA^(key): /??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English sheden, scheden, schoden, from Old English sc?adan, sc?dan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between; remove from association or companionship; distinguish, discriminate, decide, determine, appoint; shatter, shed; expound; decree; write down; differ”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþan? (compare West Frisian skiede, Dutch and German scheiden), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- (“to cut, part, divide, separate”), from *skey-.

See also Welsh chwydu (“to break open”), Lithuanian sk?sti (“to spread”), skíesti (“to separate”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (c?diti, “to filter, strain”), Ancient Greek ????? (skhíz?, “to split”), Old Armenian ???? (c?tem, “to scratch”), Sanskrit ????? (cyáti, “he cuts off”)). Related to shoad, shit.

Verb

shed (third-person singular simple present sheds, present participle shedding, simple past and past participle shed or (nonstandard) shedded)

1. (transitive, obsolete, Britain, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
   • c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece

     If there be any thing that knitteth himself to the ilk middle point [of a circle], it is constrained into simplicity (that is to say, into unmovablity), and it ceaseth to be shed and to flit diversely.

   • 1460–1500, The Poems of Robert Henryson

     The northern wind had shed the misty clouds from the sky;

   • 1635, "Sermon on Philippians III, 7, 8", in Select Practical Writings of David Dickson (1845), Volume 1, page 166 Internet Archive

     Lest […] ye shed with God.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
   • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry

     White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.

   • 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):

     She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.

3. (transitive, archaic) To pour; to make flow.
4. (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.

5. (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.

6. (obsolete, transitive) To pour forth, give off, impart.
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To fall in drops; to pour.

   • swich a reyn doun fro the welkne shadde

8. To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
   • 1606, Ben Jonson, Hymenaei

     Her hair […] is shed with gray.

9. (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English schede, schode, schad, shæd, from a combination of Old English sc?ada (“a parting of the hair, top of the head”) and Old English ?es??ad (“distinction, reason”).

Alternative forms

• shode (dialectal)
• shead, shede (obsolete)

Noun

shed (plural sheds)

2. (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
3. (obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.
4. (obsolete) A parting in the hair.
5. (obsolete) The top of the head.
6. (obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
7. (physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10^-52 square meters

Derived terms

• countershed
• watershed

Translations

Etymology 3

Dialectal variant of a specialized use of shade.

Noun

shed (plural sheds)

1. A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.

   a wagon shed; a wood shed; a garden shed

2. A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
3. (Britain, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
4. (Britain, rail transportation) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: seada
• ? Welsh: sièd

Translations

See also

Verb

shed (third-person singular simple present sheds, present participle shedding, simple past and past participle shedded)

1. To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.

References

• “shed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• edhs, heds

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• shedu

Etymology

From Latin sede?. Compare Romanian ?edea, ?ed.

Verb

shed (third-person singular present indicative shadi / shade, past participle shidzutã)

1. I sit.

Related terms

See also

• mi-ashedzu