cage 
cage (kāj)
noun
- a box or enclosed structure made of wires, bars, etc., for confining birds or animals
- a fenced-in area as for confining prisoners of war
- any openwork structure or frame, as some elevator cars
- Archaic a jail
- Baseball batting cage
- Hockey the network frame that is the goal
Etymology: ME & OFr < L cavea, hollow place, cage < cavus, hollow: see cave
transitive verb caged, cag′·ing
to put or confine, as in a cage
Cage (kāj)
Cage, John 1912-92; U.S. composer
Object
- hen: If they do not, write to the manager and ask them to stock humane alternatives to caged hens.
- beast: It may interest you to know that I am entirely TAPU, and live apart in my chambers like a caged beast.
Converse of object
- rattle: I know i am probably rattling cages, good maybe someone will respond?
- enrich: What is FAWC's view of enriched cages in the meantime?
Adjective modifier
- barren: The barren cages at Darley Oak provide them with nothing to live for.
- clathrate: The use of such clathrate cages in the formation of solid gas hydrate ices is shown on another page.
- cramped: Animals on fur farms spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages.
- all-wire: Affected chinchillas should not be kept in an all-wire cage.
- tiny: Many such pets end their days confined in tiny cages by their inexperienced owners.
- filthy: Animals on fur farms spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages.
Modifies a noun
- traps: Cage traps of necessity require inspection at least every 24 hours.
- trap: All cage trap donors are given an allocation number for their trap.
- enrichment: FAWC is of the opinion that cage enrichment offers the possibility of improved hen welfare provided acceptable systems can be introduced practically.
Noun used with modifier
- rib: The dog's waist is the area behind the rib cage viewed from the top.
- chinchilla: A large rat or even a chinchilla cage is ideal.
- hamster: You can buy dedicated hamster style cages that have a wire partition down the middle.
- batting: It boasted two championship mini-golf courses, go-karting and batting cages.
- wire: Mobile baby cages or open wire cages should he thrown out.
- battery: RSPCA campaign explains that: Over 20 million hens live in battery cages in the UK.
Preposition: with
- enrichment: Mice will be housed in groups in cages with environmental enrichment.
You see, family life is all the life she knows: she's like a bird bornina cage, that would dieif you let it looseinthe woods.
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.
Came the great Popinjay Smelling his nosegay: In cage like grots The birds sing gavottes.
Beware of anything that promises freedom or enlightenmentötraps for eager and clever foolsöa dog has a keener noseöevery creature in a cave can justify himself. Three-fourths of philosophyand literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free; Angels along that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.
Es usted un homo sapiens, mam|¤fero vertebrado Se encuentra en el periodo de domesticacio¤ n, y ser|¤a colocado en una jaula al menor s|¤ntoma de ferocidad. En la escuela, en los laboratorios o en las oficinas de gobierno sabemos todo cuanto puede saberse de usted, de sus semejantes o de los otros seres en la escala zoolo¤ gica. You are a homo sapiens, a vertebrate mammal You are currently being tamed, and you would be put in a cage if you showed any sign of fierceness. At school, in the laboratories and in government offices we know as much as can be known about you, about your fellow beings and about the other beings in the zoological scale.
I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayöspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.
A robin red breast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage.
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