English Dictionary

cage

/keɪd͡ʒ/

noun

An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals. / The passenger compartment of a lift. / (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal. / (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.

The lion was kept in a cage at the zoo.

意味（1）

An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

We keep a bird in a cage.

意味（2）

The passenger compartment of a lift.

意味（3）

(field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.

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(US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.

意味（5）

(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.

My body is a cage / That keeps me from dancing with the one I love / But my mind holds the key

意味（6）

(athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.

意味（7）

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.

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(engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.

意味（9）

A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.

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(mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.

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(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.

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(graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.

意味（13）

In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.