Definitions for cages

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Cages is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in cages (acegs).

Definitions for cages

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 cages

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

Examples for cages

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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