United States composer of avant garde music (1912 1992)
A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
Noun
a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
Noun
an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept
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the net that is the goal in ice hockey
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United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
Noun
something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
Verb
confine in a cage; "The animal was caged"
n.
A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or
metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
n.
A place of confinement for malefactors
n.
An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it;
as, the cage of a staircase.
n.
A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a
ball valve.
n.
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
n.
The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator;
a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
n.
The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
n.
The catcher's wire mask.
v. i.
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Cage
In his cage, like parrot fine and gay.2.
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.3.
Cage
A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Usage Examples
At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.
I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
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Other Usage ExamplesI never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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