Birdcage

Definitions: Birdcage

Birdcage

Noun

1. A cage in which a bird is kept.

Date "birdcage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Thread of glass joining two opposite points inside a container. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Birdcage

Synonyms by domain: bird cage (industry, metallurgy), bird swing, bird-cage (european union, personal care & hotelsindustry, metallurgy), chicken roost.

Crosswords: Birdcage

English words defined with "birdcage": Bird cage, birdcage mask. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Birdcage (1996)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Pipework Engineering and Operation: 21-22 February 1989: The Institution of Mechanical Engineers Birdcage Walk London (Proceedings of the Instituti) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Great flying birdcage, zoo park, Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress.		Lord & Taylor, business in Westchester. Birdcage.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Birdcage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Birdcage" is used about 16 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
Noun (singular)	75%	12	101,599
Noun (proper)	18.75%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	6.25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	16	N/A

Expression using "birdcage": birdcage mask. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "birdcage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kafaz zogjsh. (various references)

Arabic		‏في مرحلة طيران, ‏قفص العصافير. (various references)

Bulgarian		кафез (cage, crate, safe). (various references)

Chinese		鳥� . (various references)

Czech		klec (cage, mew). (various references)

Danish		skraedder (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost), fuglepind (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost). (various references)

Dutch		vogelkooi (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost), antenne (aerial, antenna, bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost). (various references)

Finnish		orsi (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost, hen perch, hen roost, perch, rafter, roost). (various references)

French		balançoire (bird cage, bird swing), trapèze (bird cage, bird swing), pont (bird cage, bird swing), perchoir (bird cage, bird swing), aiguille (bird cage, bird swing). (various references)

German		Vogelschaukel (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost), Schneider (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost, cutter, dressmaker, fitter, sartorial, schneider, slicer, tailor, tailors, taylors), Affenschaukel (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost). (various references)

Italian		filo di attaccatura spontanea (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost), filo del telefono (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		鳥� . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とりか�". (various references)

Manx		clean ushag. (various references)

Pig Latin		irdcagebay

Portuguese		trapézio (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost, trapeze, trapeze bar, trapezium), poleiro (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost, perch). (various references)

Russian		клетка для птиц. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kavez za ptice. (various references)

Spanish		trapecio (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost, trapeze, trapeze bar, trapezium), teléfono (bird cage, bird swing, blower, chicken roost, dog, horn, phone, telephone, telephone instrument, telephone set), pajarera (aviary, fowl run), jaula (basket, body cage, cage, calaboose, crate, hamper, hutch, jail, lock up, mew, press cage, slatted body), columpio (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost, child's swing, see-saw, swing). (various references)

Swedish		fågelbur (bird cage, bird swing, chicken roost). (various references)

Thai		กรงนก (cageling). (various references)

Turkish		kuş kafesi (bird cage, cage). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "birdcage": birdcages. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Birdcage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bricogne. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-g-i-r"
	-1 letter: abridge, brigade, carbide.
	-2 letters: abider, badger, bardic, barged, begird, braced, bridge, cadger, cagier, caribe, caried, garbed, graced.
	-3 letters: abide, acerb, acred, acrid, aider, aired, arced, ardeb, areic, badge, barde, bared, barge, baric, beard, bider, brace, braid, bread, bride, caber, cadge, cadre, caged, cager, caird, cared, cebid, cedar, ceiba, ceria, cider, cigar, cried, daric.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-g-i-r"
	+1 letter: birdcages.
	+3 letters: becowarding.
	+4 letters: childbearing, descrambling.
	+5 letters: childbearings, decarbonating, decarbonizing, decarburizing, decerebrating, dischargeable.
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