Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word cage. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in cage.
Definitions and meaning of cage
cage
Etymology
From Middle Englishcage, from Old Frenchcage, from Latincavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /keɪd͡ʒ/
Rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Noun
cage (pluralcages)
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.
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Zulu: ikheji
Translations
Verb
cage (third-person singular simple presentcages, present participlecaging, simple past and past participlecaged)
(transitive) To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
(transitive, slang) To imprison.
(transitive, 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.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
“cage”, in Collins English Dictionary.
“cage”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
“cage”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“cage”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
Anagrams
cega
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old Frenchcage, from Latincavea.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kaʒ/
Noun
cagef (pluralcages)
cage
cage d’escalier ― staircase
(soccer, colloquial) area, penalty area
Derived terms
Further reading
“cage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
kage, gage
Etymology
From Old Frenchcage, from Latincavea.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈkaːd͡ʒ(ə)/
Noun
cage (pluralcages)
A cage or pen.
A cell, enclosure or room of diminutive proportions.
A platform or deck.
Descendants
English: cage
Scots: cage
References
“cāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.