cage

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to confine in a cage

   The animal was caged

2. 2
   noun

   An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

   We keep a bird in a cage.

3. 3
   noun

   Something that hinders freedom.

   Schwartz examines with dignity and tenderness the battles within and without of […] families, created and biological, and the cages and freedom they can provide.

4. 4
   noun

   A prison or prison cell.

   The 'out of the closet' lesbians and gay men here in the Iowa Cages are harassed and discriminated daily by oppressive pigs, believe me, I know, as a lesbian I've experienced it first hand and seen my fellow lesbian and gay friends oppressed to where I'm ready to explode.

5. 5
   noun

   An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.

   Cage, in carpentry, is an outer work of timber inclosing another within it. Thus the cage of a stair is the wooden inclosure that encircles it.

6. 6
   verb

   To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.

   And the row of human captors, ever leering, They who caged me, Know their power and gloat on my captivity.

7. 7
   verb

   To imprison.

   The serial killer was caged for life.

8. 8
   verb

   To immobilize an artificial horizon.

   To prevent damage to its gimbal mountings during extreme aerobatic maneuvers, the navball should be caged before the start of a display sequence.

Etymology

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.