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cage
1. n. Cage.
2. v. Encager
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cage
1. n. An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
We keep a bird in a cage.
The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.
The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage.
2. n. The passenger compartment of a lift.
3. n. (hockey, water polo) The goal.
4. n. (US, derogatory slang) An automobile.
5. n. (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
6. n. (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
7. n. An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
8. n. (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
9. n. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
10. n. (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
11. n. (baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
12. n. (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
13. v. To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
14. v. (figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
15. v. 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
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cage
1. n-f. cage
cage d'escalier - staircase
2. n-f. (soccer, colloquial) area, penalty area

Exemples de phrases

He's a little on edge today. I wouldn't rattle his cage if I were you.      Il est un peu énervé aujourd'hui. Si j'étais toi, je ne le chercherais pas trop. You should free those animals from the cage.      Tu devrais libérer les animaux de leur cage. Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.      La folie est relative. Ça dépend de qui a enfermé qui dans quelle cage. The bear is walking up and down in the cage.      L'ours parcourt sa cage de long en large. She opened the cage and let the bird out.      Elle a ouvert la cage et a laissé l'oiseau s'envoler.

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