different between conform vs cage

English

Etymology

From Middle English conformen, borrowed from Old French conformer, from Latin conform?re (“to mould, to shape after”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?f??m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?f??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m
• Hyphenation: con?form

Verb

conform (third-person singular simple present conforms, present participle conforming, simple past and past participle conformed)

1. (intransitive, of persons, often followed by to) To act in accordance with expectations; to behave in the manner of others, especially as a result of social pressure.
   • 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, ch. 4:

     [B]y conforming to the dress and habits of the Gauchos, he has obtained an unbounded popularity in the country.
2. (intransitive, of things, situations, etc.) To be in accordance with a set of specifications or regulations, or with a policy or guideline.
   • 1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit, ch. 11:

     In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest.

   • 2006 22 Dec., "Judge Cuts Amount of Vioxx Award ," New York Times (retrieved 7 June 2011):

     A judge in a Texas widow’s lawsuit over the Merck drug Vioxx reduced a $32 million jury award to about $7.75 million on Thursday so that it conformed to state law.

3. (transitive) To make similar in form or nature; to make suitable for a purpose; to adapt.
   • c. 1710, Jonathan Swift, "Vanbrugh's House" in The Poems of Jonathan Swift (1910 edition):

     There is a worm by Phoebus bred,

     By leaves of mulberry is fed,

     Which unprovided where to dwell,

     Conforms itself to weave a cell.

   • 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, ch. 6:

     The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

Synonyms

• (to act in accordance with expectations): acquiesce, comply, go along to get along, knuckle under, submit; see also Thesaurus:conform

Related terms

Translations

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French conforme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon?form/

Preposition

conform (+dative)

1. according to

Related terms

• conforma

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.

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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.