Meaning

5 senses
  1. (transitive)To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.

    confine in a cage

  2. (slang, transitive)To imprison.

    The serial killer was caged for life.

  3. (figuratively, transitive)To restrict someone's movement or creativity.

  4. 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.

  5. To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.

Examples

270 sentences
  1. This cage is made of wire.

    Ця клітка зроблена з дроту. — aandrusiak

    ruЭта клетка сделана из проволоки. — al_ex_an_der

    deDieser Käfig ist aus Draht. — Wolf

  2. Some animals will not breed when kept in cages.

    Деякі тварини не розмножуються, коли їх тримають у клітках. — deniko

    ruНекоторые животные при клеточном содержании не размножаются. — Karok

    deEinige Tiere werden sich nicht fortpflanzen, wenn sie in Käfigen gehalten werden. — kayro

  3. Tom opened the cage and let the monkey out.

    Том відчинив клітку й випустив мавпу. — deniko

    ruТом открыл клетку и выпустил обезьяну. — marafon

    deTom öffnete den Käfig und ließ den Affen heraus. — mayabe

  4. He opened the cages.

    Він відкрив клітки. — deniko

    ruОн открыл клетки. — sharptoothed

    deEr öffnete die Käfige. — pne

  5. The cage is empty.

    Клітка пуста. — artemlyubchenko

    ruКлетка пуста. — marafon

    deDer Käfig ist leer. — maaster

Translations

5 languages

Origin

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cav

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

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Forms

cages, caging, caged, caged
Base formcage · to cage
3rd person singularcages
Present participlecaging
Past simplecaged
Past participlecaged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycage
he, she, itcages

Past simpleLesson

all personscaged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave caged
he, she, ithas caged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cage

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • confine in a cage:cage in

Word family

2 related words

Collocations

4 patterns
  • opened the cage
  • the cage and
  • the cage is
  • in the cage

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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