Definitions for Cage

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Cage is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in Cage (aceg).

Definitions for Cage

noun

1. a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
2. anything that confines or imprisons; prison.
3. something resembling a cage in structure, as for a cashier or bank teller.
4. the car or enclosed platform of an elevator.
5. Mining. an enclosed platform for raising and lowering people and cars in a mine shaft.
6. any skeleton framework.
7. Baseball. a movable backstop for use mainly in batting practice.
8. a frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.
9. Basketball Older Use. the basket.
10. a loose, sheer or lacy overdress worn with a slip or a close-fitting dress.
11. Ordnance. a steel framework for supporting guns.
12. Machinery. retainer1 (def 3).
13. John, 1912–1992, U.S. composer.

verb (used with object)

1. to put or confine in or as if in a cage.
2. Sports. to shoot (as a puck) into a cage so as to score a goal.

Origin of Cage

1175-1225; Middle English Old French Latin cavea birdcage, equivalent to cav(us) hollow + -ea, feminine of -eus adj. suffix

Examples for Cage

Stevie prowled round the table like an excited animal in a cage.

Everything in the cage will be programmed from moment to moment.

When I first heard about the sport, I assumed that it was a “no holds barred” cage match where pretty much anything goes.

But you wonder how even the sane keep from losing their minds when you step into a cell—or rather a cage—at Graterford.

He paced the chamber like a beast in a cage, hissing out the words in his anger.

Two men, literally in a cage, were attacking each other while the pastor and his friends cheered.

I opened the door of his cage and, snatching the puppy, fled.

It is empty, the door swung open—perhaps the bird has already flown, or perhaps the cage awaits its next inhabitant.

After the incident of the birds and cage, my sagacity was for some time at fault.

Squirrels shouldn't swim, and if I can catch it I will put it in a cage.