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Definition: CAGED |
CAGEDAdjective1. Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison. Imperative & past participle1. Of Cage |
Date "CAGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Caged is a 1950 film which tells the story of a young woman who is sent to prison for being an accessory to a robbery. Her time in jail changes her from an innocent into a hardened convict. It stars Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson, Betty Garde, Jan Sterling, Lee Patrick, Jane Darwell and Sheila MacRae.The movie was adapted by Virginia Kellogg from the story Women Without Men by Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld. It was directed by John Cromwell.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Eleanor Parker), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Hope Emerson) and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Caged."
Crosswords: CAGED |
| English words defined with "CAGED": birdseed grass ♦ canary grass, canary seed ♦ Fig dust ♦ German paste, Gymnorhina tibicen ♦ Phalaris canariensis, piping crow, piping crow-shrike ♦ ringdove ♦ Streptopelia risoria. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CAGED": Air one's opinions ♦ Cage ♦ Leopard, Lion ♦ NEWGATE BIRD. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) It's important to have a job that makes a difference, boys, that's why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Caged Bird (2001) The Caged Bird (1913) Caged (1998) Punished and Caged Caught (1991) Caged in Paradiso (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [A PHS physician and a nurse stand at the entrance to the caged area at a prison facility]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Four children looking at a caged monkey] Esther Bubley. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Boy (full-length portrait, facing right) crouched down feeding a caged rabbit while a girl watches on] Esther Bubley. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Caged monkey on platform with sign reading "Congressman Poll Tax" displayed by the NAACP Detroit branch during their "Parade for Victory" march. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The new gambling game: Where will the mouse run? A concession at South Louisiana State Fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana. Players place bets on particular numbers, caged mouse is placed on top of central cylinder, trap door is released and mouse runs to a n. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Trapped Donkeys" by Mary Tamaki Commentary: "Caged donkeys in the desert. ." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Kennel; dog; shelter; abandoned; caged. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The rogue was caged. |
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| "CAGED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 65.89% of the time. "CAGED" is used about 129 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 65.89% | 85 | 35,870 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 20.93% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 10.08% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.1% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 129 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CAGED": caged armor ♦ caged armour. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CAGED": close-caged. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "CAGED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 关进笼子 (Caging). (various references) | |
Danish | i bur. (various references) | |
Dutch | gekooid. (various references) | |
French | en cage. (various references) | |
German | sperrte ein (cooped, corralled), im Käfig gehalten, eingesperrt (jailed, locked up). (various references) | |
Greek | εγκλωβισμένος. (various references) | |
Italian | ingabbiato, in gabbia. (various references) | |
Korean | 감금하는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agedcay.(various references) | |
Spanish | enjaulado. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CAGED": encaged, incaged, uncaged. (additional references) | |
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"CAGED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caed, ca'ed, caedo, Caega, Cagd, cagen, Cager, caget, cagged, cago, cajet, calge, camed, canged, cargoed, caued, cauge, cege, cegi, cge, cige, cijed, coage, cogedy, daged, Mcgeady, saged. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CAGED" (pronounced kā"jd) |
| 3 | -ā" j d | aged, assuaged, disengaged, engaged, enraged, gauged, paged, raged, restaged, staged, upstaged, waged. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cadge. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g" | |
-1 letter: aced, aged, cade, cage, dace, egad, gaed. | |
-2 letters: ace, age, cad, dag, gad, gae, ged. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, ag, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-g" | |
+1 letter: cadged, cadger, cadges, graced. | |
+2 letters: cadgers, changed, charged, clagged, clanged, congaed, cordage, cragged, decagon, decalog, dockage, dogface, encaged, glaceed, glanced, incaged, uncaged. | |
+3 letters: acceding, algicide, birdcage, cabbaged, collaged, cordages, decagons, decagram, decalogs, decaying, decigram, defacing, delegacy, disgrace, dockages, dogfaces, grimaced, guidance, magicked, packaged, scragged, ungraced. | |
+4 letters: advecting, algaecide, algicides, ascending, birdcages, cadencing, cartridge, cataloged, chagrined, clangored, claughted, cogitated, coheading, coleading, comanaged, congealed, dackering, deaconing, decagrams, decalogue, decamping, decanting, deceasing, decigrams, declaring, declawing, decoupage, demagogic, detaching, discharge, disgraced, disgracer, disgraces, dodecagon, doughface, educating, exchanged, garlicked, gasconade, genocidal, glaciated, graecized, guidances, logaoedic, pedagogic, rechanged, recharged, redacting, regicidal, scavenged, scraighed, unchanged, uncharged. | |
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