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CAGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice

Synonyms:

batting cage; cage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cage" is a kind of...):

baseball equipment (equipment used in playing baseball)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

Synonyms:

cage; coop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cage" is a kind of...):

enclosure (a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cage"):

birdcage (a cage in which a bird can be kept)

hutch (a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals)

squirrel cage (cage with a cylindrical framework that rotates as a small animal runs inside it)

Derivation:

cage (confine in a cage)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The net that is the goal in ice hockey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cage" is a kind of...):

net (a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey))

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)

Synonyms:

Cage; John Cage; John Milton Cage Jr.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cage" is a kind of...):

constraint; restraint (the state of being physically constrained)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cage"):

iron cage (a cage from which there is no escape)

Derivation:

cage (confine in a cage)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Confine in a cage

Example:

The animal was caged

Synonyms:

cage; cage in

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "cage" is one way to...):

confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They cage the animals

Derivation:

cage (an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept)

cage (something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement)

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 Context examples: 

A dose calculation unit expressed in gram(s) per cage.

(Gram per Cage, NCI Thesaurus)

“What is it, then?” I asked, for his manner suggested that it was some strange creature which he had caged up in my room.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A canary’s cage was hanging in the window, and its aim seems to have been to get at the bird.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A unit of measure expressed in milliliter(s) per cage.

(Milliliter per Cage, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per cage per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.

(Milliliter per Cage per Day, NCI Thesaurus)

He turned away and I left him wandering on through the wood with his extraordinary cage around him.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Ah, Edward,” cried his wife, “if you had seen our boy, like a caged eagle, beating against the bars, you would have helped to give him even so short a flight as this.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"It can't seem so without Marmee and little Pip," sighed Beth, glancing with full eyes at the empty cage above her head.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This should put another bird in the cage. I had no idea that the paymaster was such a rascal, though I have long had an eye upon him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it—the savage, beautiful creature!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)