cage

(kāj)

1. A structure for confining birds or animals, enclosed on at least one side by a grating of wires or bars that lets in air and light.

2. A barred room or fenced enclosure for confining prisoners.

3. An enclosing openwork structure: placed a protective cage over the sapling; a bank teller's cage.

4. A skeletal support, as for a building; a framework.

5. An elevator car.

a. Baseball A batting cage.

b. Sports A goal, as in hockey or soccer, made of a net attached to a frame.

tr.v. caged, cag·ing, cag·es

To put or confine in or as if in a cage. See Synonyms at enclose.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cavea.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

caged

(keɪdʒd)

adj

in a cage

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Translations

caged

[ˈkeɪdʒd] adj [bird, animal] → en cage
a caged bird → un oiseau en cage

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In a moment the ring of spectators would break at a point nearest the caged lion and the victim would be rolled into the center of the circle.

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"Too much Ego," said be, peeling the fruit and offering it to the caged devil, who was rending the silk to tatters.

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Shortly after we had been caged the amphitheater began to fill and within an hour every available part of the seating space was occupied.

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When Don Quixote saw himself caged and hoisted on the cart in this way, he said, "Many grave histories of knights-errant have I read; but never yet have I read, seen, or heard of their carrying off enchanted knights-errant in this fashion, or at the slow pace that these lazy, sluggish animals promise; for they always take them away through the air with marvellous swiftness, enveloped in a dark thick cloud, or on a chariot of fire, or it may be on some hippogriff or other beast of the kind; but to carry me off like this on an ox-cart!

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