Dictionary Entry
cage
cage is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
- 2noun
A place of confinement for malefactors
- 3noun
An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
- 4noun
A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
- 5noun
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
- 6noun
The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
- 7noun
The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- 8noun
The catcher's wire mask.
- 9intransitive verb
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
- 10noun
a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
- 11noun
an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
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- 12noun
the net that is the goal in ice hockey
- 13noun
United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
- 14noun
something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- 15verb
confine in a cage
"The animal was caged"
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