- a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
- anything that confines or imprisons; prison.
- something resembling a cage in structure, as for a cashier or bank teller.
- the car or enclosed platform of an elevator.
- an enclosed platform for raising and lowering people and cars in a mine shaft.
- any skeleton framework.
- a movable backstop for use mainly in batting practice.
- a frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.
- the basket.
- a loose, sheer or lacy overdress worn with a slip or a close-fitting dress.
- a steel framework for supporting guns.
- retainer1 (def. 3).
- to put or confine in or as if in a cage.
- to shoot (as a puck) into a cage so as to score a goal.
- U.S. composer.
- an enclosure, usually made with bars or wire, for keeping birds, monkeys, mice, etc
- (as modifier)
- a thing or place that confines or imprisons
- something resembling a cage in function or structure
- the enclosed platform of a lift, esp as used in a mine
- a skeleton ring device that ensures that the correct amount of space is maintained between the individual rollers or balls in a rolling bearing
- the basket used in basketball
- the goal in ice hockey
- a steel framework on which guns are supported
- to upset or anger someone
- to confine in or as in a cage
- John. 1912–92, US composer of experimental music for a variety of conventional, modified, or invented instruments. He evolved a type of music apparently undetermined by the composer, such as in Imaginary Landscape (1951) for 12 radio sets. Other works include Reunion (1968), Apartment Building 1776 (1976), and Europeras 3 and 4 (1990)
