cage

IPA: kˈeɪdʒ

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.
(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
(slang) A prison or prison cell.
(athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
(engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
(mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
(graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
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.
A surname from French.

To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
(figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
(aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
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 of "cage" in Sentences

The mad man was caged up.
The bird lived in the cage.
I found a talon in the cage.
The rats are scrambling in the cage.
Chessman was the last person in the cage.
Cage was delighted and graciously accepted the gift.
That is tantamount to the concept of freedom in a cage.
The larger and stronger of the two birds flew from the cage.
In 1998, birds are kept in a cage to die and then be stuffed.
In the 1998 remake the birds are kept in a cage to die and then be stuffed.
Can you share some popcorn and a drink, this cage is a little confining to me?
Then about 9: 30 or so, I go up to what I call the cage, which is where I write.
Worst: Vince trying to lure hardcore NFL fans to WWE with a title cage match first.
Marécage is French for swamp, so the title translates as The flower of the swamp, a head.
Although I think the cage is the three square miles around 76th and Broadway, and the problem is too much food (if not actually Barney Greengrass eastern Gaspé smoked salmon).
For one, the egg industry and others had demonstrated the power of the label cage free, yet Hudson Valley had done nothing to get the word out that its ducks were not in cages.
She observed that the pair which he then saw building their nest in her cage, were a male and female, who had been hatched and reared in that very _cage_, and were not in existence when the mossy cradle was fabricated in which _they_ first saw light. "