Definition of Cage

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Definition of Cage

Cage

A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.

A place of confinement for malefactors

An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.

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

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

The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.

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

The catcher's wire mask.

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.

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Cage Quotations

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Germaine Greer

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Robert Fulghum

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
Angelina Jolie

A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen

Cage Translations

cage in Afrikaans is hok
cage in Dutch is kooi
cage in French is cage
cage in Italian is gabbia
cage in Norwegian is bur
cage in Portuguese is gaiola
cage in Spanish is jaula
cage in Swedish is bur

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