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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
- [n] an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept
- [n] the net that is the goal in ice hockey
- [n] United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
- [n] something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- [v] confine in a cage; "The animal was caged"
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| | Synonyms: | | batting cage, cage in, coop, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr. |
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| | See Also: | | baseball equipment, birdcage, composer, confine, constraint, detain, enclosure, hutch, iron cage, net, restraint, squirrel cage |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Cage\, n. [F. cage, fr. L. cavea cavity, cage, fr. cavus
hollow. Cf. {Cave}, n., {Cajole}, {Gabion}.]
1. A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood
or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
In his cage, like parrot fine and gay. --Cowper.
2. A place of confinement for malefactors --Shak.
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a
cage. --Lovelace.
3. (Carp.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something
within it; as, the cage of a staircase. --Gwilt.
4. (Mach.)
(a) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece,
as a ball valve.
(b) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and
pipes.
5. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or
elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
6. (Mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting
whim.
7. (Baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
\Cage\ (k[=a]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caged} (k[=a]jd); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Caging}.]
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
``Caged and starved to death.'' --Cowper.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Early system on IBM 704. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959). |
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming of being in a cage means that you are experiencing some inhibitions and powerlessness in some areas of your life. You may feel restricted, confined and restrained in a current relationship or business deal. Somebody may be keeping a short leash on you where you are lacking the freedom to act independently.
Dreaming that you are putting a wild animal into a cage means that you will succeed in overcoming your rivals and fears. It is also symbolic of you being able to control you animalistic rages and anger.
Seeing a bird in a cage, suggests that you are feeling limited in your expression and a sudden lost of freedom. You may be experiencing frustrations and an inhibited spirituality. The dream may also imply that you are feeling like a "jail bird". |
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | (Heb. kelub', Jer. 5:27, marg. "coop;" rendered "basket" in Amos 8:1), a basket of wicker-work in which birds were placed after being caught. In Rev. 18:2 it is the rendering of the Greek _phulake_, properly a prison or place of confinement. |
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| | Related Terms: | | beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, chamber, check, cloister, close in, compass, confine, constrain, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cork up, corral, crate, crib, detain, drive, drove, encage, encircle, enclose, enclosure, encompass, enshrine, fence in, goad, hedge in, hell, hem in, herd, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, house in, hutch, immure, impound, imprison, in, incarcerate, include, inhibit, jail, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, kennel, lash, leaguer, limbo, mew, mew up, pen, pen in, pen up, penfold, pinfold, place of confinement, pocket, pound, prick, punch cattle, purgatory, quarantine, rail in, restrain, restrict, ride herd on, round up, seal up, shackle, shepherd, shrine, shut in, shut up, spur, stable, surround, wall in, whip, wrangle, wrap, yard, yard up |
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