English Dictionary

cage

IPA（発音記号）

/keɪd͡ʒ/

名詞

アメリカ英語 軽蔑的 俗語 比喩的用法

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.

日本語の意味

動物を収容するための、棒や柵で囲まれた囲い（檻） / エレベーターの乗客室 / フィールドホッケー、アイスホッケー、水球におけるゴール部分 / （米国の侮蔑的・スラング）自動車

The zookeeper cleaned the rusty cage before moving the parrot back inside.

飼育員はオウムを戻す前に、さびた檻を掃除した。

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.

意味（4）

(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.

意味（8）

(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.

意味（10）

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

意味（11）

(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.

意味（12）

(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.

cages （ plural ）