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Definition: Cage |
CageNoun1. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept. 2. Something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement. 3. The net that is the goal in ice hockey. 4. A movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice. Verb1. Confine in a cage; "The animal was caged". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CAGE Early system on IBM 704. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | To lock a gyro in a fixed position in its case. (references) |
Bible | Cage (Heb. kelub', Jer. 5:27, marg. "coop;" rendered "basket" in Amos 8:1), a basket of wicker-work in which birds were placed after being caught. In Rev. 18:2 it is the rendering of the Greek _phulake_, properly a prison or place of confinement. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | In your dreaming if you see a cageful of birds, you will be the happy possessor of immense wealth and many beautiful and charming children. To see only one bird, you will contract a desirable and wealthy marriage. No bird indicates a member of the family lost, either by elopement or death. To see wild animals caged, denotes that you will triumph over your enemies and misfortunes. If you are in the cage with them, it denotes harrowing scenes from accidents while traveling. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Energy | The component of an electric motor composed of solid bars (of usually copper or aluminum) arranged in a circle and connected to continuous rings at each end. This cage fits inside the stator in an induction motor in channels between laminations, thin flat discs of steel in a ring configuration. (references) |
Literature | Cage To whistle or sing in the cage. The cage is a jail, and to whistle in a cage is to turn Queen's evidence, or peach against a comrade. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | Device used to space out the balls in a ball-bearing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A vertically moving enclosed platform used in a mine shaft for the conveyance of workers and materials, usually designed to take one or twocars per deck and may be single or multidecked. (references) |
Transportation | That part of the buoy built on top of the body of the buoy and used as a daymark or part thereof and usually to support the light or a topmark or a radar reflector, or a combination of these. Source: European Union. (references) |
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A cage is an enclousure made of bars or wires. You may also be looking for:
- Faraday cage, an electrical apparatus
- The actor Nicolas Cage
- The composer John Cage
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
John Milton Cage (born September 5, 1912, died August 12 1992) was an experimental music composer and writer, notorious for 4′ 33″, often described (somewhat erroneously) as "four and a half minutes of silence." He was an early writer of aleatoric music (music where some elements are left to chance), used instruments in non-standard ways and was an electronic music pioneer.
Cage was born in Los Angeles on September 5, 1912. His father was a somewhat eccentric inventor of largely useless devices who told him "that if someone says 'can't' that shows you what to do." Cage described his mother as a woman with "a sense of society" who was "never happy." It was not obvious from his early life that he would become a composer; he was born into a Episcopalian family, and his paternal grandfather regarded the violin as the "instrument of the devil". Cage himself planned to become a minister at an early age and later a writer.
Although music was not clearly to be his chosen path, he did say later that he had unfocused desire to create, and his subsequent anti-establishment stance may be seen to have its roots in an incident while he was attending Pomona College. Shocked to find a large number of students in the library reading the same set text, he rebelled and "went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly." He dropped out in his second year and sailed to Europe, where he stayed for eighteen months. It was there that he wrote his first pieces of music, but upon hearing them he found he didn't like them, and he left them behind on his return to America.
He returned to California in 1931, his enthusiasm for America revived, he said, by reading Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. There he took lessons in composition from Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolf Weiss, and, famously, Arnold Schoenberg whom he "literally worshipped." Schoenberg told Cage he would tutor him for free on the condition he "devoted his life to music." Cage readily agreed, but stopped lessons after two years when it became clear to him that he had "no feeling for harmony."
Cage began to experiment with percussion instruments and non-instruments and gradually came to replace harmony as the basis of his music with rhythm. More generally, he structured pieces according to the duration of sections. He saw a precedent in this in the music of Anton Webern to some extent, but especially in the music of Erik Satie, one of his favourite composers.
In the late 1930s, he went to the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. There he found work as an accompanist for dancers. He was asked to write some music to accompany a dance by Syvilla Fort called Bacchanale. He wanted to write a percussion piece, but there was no pit at the performance venue for a percussion ensemble and he had to write for a piano. While working on the piece, Cage experimented by placing a metal plate on top of the strings of the instrument. He liked the sound this produced, and this eventually led to his inventing the prepared piano, in which screws, bolts, strips of rubber and other objects are placed between the strings of the piano to change the character of the instrument. It is likely that he was influenced by his old teacher Henry Cowell who also treated the piano in a non-standard way, asking performers to strum the strings with their fingers, for example. The Sonatas and Interludes of 1946-48 are widely seen as his greatest work for prepared piano. Pierre Boulez was amongst its admirers, and organised the European premiere of the work. The two composers struck up a correspondence, but this stopped when they came to a disagreement over Cage's use of chance in his music.
It was also at Cornish that Cage founded a percussion orchestra for which he wrote his First Construction (In Metal) in 1939, a piece which uses metal percussion instruments to make a loud and rhythmic music. He also wrote the Imaginary Landscape No. 1 in that year, which uses record players as instruments, one of the first, if not the first, examples of this. Cage wrote a number of other Imaginary Landscape pieces in later years.
While at the Cornish School, Cage became interested in many things which informed much of his later work. He learnt from Gira Sarabhai that "The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences." This got him writing music again after a period of uncertainty about the value of trying to "express" anything through music. He became interested in Hinduism and Zen Buddhism, and met the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham, who became his life partner and creative collaborator.
After leaving the Cornish School, Cage joined the faculty of the Chicago School of Design. While there he was asked to write a sound effects-based musical accompaniment for Kenneth Patchen's radio play The City Wears a Slouch Hat. Cage then moved to New York City, but found it very hard to get work there. However, he continued to write music, and establish new musical contacts. He toured America with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company several times, and also toured Europe with the experimental pianist (and later composer) David Tudor, who he worked with closely many other times.
Cage began to use the I Ching in the composition of his music in order to introduce an element of chance over which he would have no control. He used it, for example, in the Music of Changes for solo piano in 1951, to determine which notes should be used and when they should sound. He used chance in other ways as well; Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951) is written for twelve radio receivers. Each radio has two players, one to control the frequency the radio is tuned to, the other to control the volume level. Cage wrote very precise instructions in the score about how the performers should set their radios and change them over time, but he could not control the actual sound coming out of them, which was dependent on whatever radio shows were playing at that particular place and time of performance.
In the late 1940s, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way that the walls, ceiling and floor will absorb all sounds made in the room, rather than bouncing them back as echoes. They are also generally soundproofed. Cage entered the chamber expecting to hear silence, but as he wrote later, he "heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation." Whatever the truth of these explanations, Cage had gone to a place where he expected there to be no sound, and yet there was some. "Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music." The realisation as he saw it of the impossibility of silence led to the composition of his most notorious piece, 4′ 33″.
The premiere of the three-movement 4′ 33″ was given by David Tudor on August 29, 1952, at Woodstock, New York as part of a recital of contemporary piano music. The audience saw him sit at the piano, and lift the lid of the piano. Some time later, without having played any notes, he closed the lid. A while after that, again having played nothing, he lifted the lid. And after a period of time, he closed the lid once more and rose from the piano. The piece had passed without a note being played, in fact without Tudor or anyone else on stage having made any deliberate sound, although he timed the lengths on a stopwatch while turning the pages of the score. Richard Kostelanetz suggests that the very fact that Tudor, a man known for championing experimental music, was the performer, and that Cage, a man known for introducing unexpected non-musical noise into his work, was the composer, would have led the audience to expect unexpected sounds. Anybody listening intently would have heard them: while nobody produces sound deliberately, there will nonetheless be sounds in the concert hall (just as there were sounds in the anechoic chamber at Harvard). It is these sounds, unpredictable and unintentional, that are to be regarded as constituting the music in this piece. The piece remains controversial to this day, and is seen as challenging the very definition of music.
Cage went on to write such pieces as Aria (1958), HPSCHD (1967-69), Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake (1979) and the various so called "numbers pieces" (from the 1980s). He also wrote several books, including Silence (1961), A Year From Monday (1968), M (1973), Empty Words (1979) and X (1983). During his later years, Cage remained experimental, combining many of his musical and free-form concepts in public workshops.
John Cage died in New York City on August 12, 1992.
Organ² / ASLSP
Another of Cage's works, Organ² / ASLSP, is currently being performed near the German township of Halberstadt; in accordance with Cage's directions for the piece to be played "As SLow aS Possible", the performance, being done on a specially-constructed autonomous organ built into the old church of St. Burchardi, is scheduled to take a total of 639 years after having been started at midnight September 5, 2001.
See also Fluxus
External links
- Wikiquote - Quotes by John Cage
- John Cage's Organ² / ASLSP in Halberstadt
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "John Cage."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CAGE | English | Citizens for Accountable Genetic Engineering | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CageSynonyms: batting cage (n), coop (n), cage in (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Cage, terrarium, doghouse; pen, aviary; barn, stall; zoo. |
Husbandry | Verb: tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage, bridle,. (restrain). |
Cage. (prison); hencoop, bird cage, cauf; range, sheepfold,. (inclosure). | |
Prison | Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse. |
Receptacle | Chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack. |
Restraint | Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) So just keep your snake in its cage for 72 hours (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke) Never tell the villain how to trap you in a cage! (Freakazoid!; writing credit: Alan Burnett; Paul Dini) From what side of the cage, pal (Roustabout; writing credit: Allan Weiss; Anthony Lawrence) Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage. (Harold and Maude; writing credit: Colin Higgins) | |
Lyrics | My life is a cage but on stage I'm free (Boom! Shake The Room; performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince) To live inside a twisted cage (Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover; performing artist: Sophie B. Hawkins) Or a beast in a gilded cage (If You Love Somebody Set Them Free; performing artist: Sting) And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones (Excitable Boy; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon & LeRoy P. Marinell) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Cage aux ours (1974) The Big Bird Cage (1972) Eagle in a Cage (1971) La Cage de Pierre (1968) Kitten in the Cage (1968) | |
Song Titles | Nobody (performing artist: Keith Sweat featuring Athena Cage) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Animal research labs are equipped with cage sterilizers to prevent contamination. Credit: CDC. |  | Construction on Building 17, CDC. Cage for delivering building materials. March 1999. Credit: CDC. |
 | Floating grow-out cage in lagoon - fish grow to market size in this cage. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Stocking juvenile fish into grow-out cage. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A one year old mangrove seedling is protected from high speed boat wakes by a PVC cage. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | One year old mangrove seedlings are protected from high speed boat wakes by a PVC cage. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Diver prepares to enter a shark cage. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Thalasomma duperreyi(Blue Wrasse) and goatfish Parapeneus multifasciatus (Moano) These fish are next to an exclusion cage that prevents grazing in order to study the effects of fish on benthic algal growth. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Exclusion cages were used to determine the effect of grazing on algal and invertebrate populations on the reef. The carport like extension was used to determine the effect of light reduction on pipe surfaces that were still open to grazing. Pipe surfaces in the cage had distinctly different algal and invertebrate communities than pipes open to grazing. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Entomologist Craig Abel introduces a hive of bumblebees into a field cage for controlled pollination of zinnias. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| "Hens in a cage" by Nenad Pantic Commentary: "Hens in a cage, in a nice formation." | "Bird cage" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "*" |
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 | Clink; jail; prison; behind bars; locked up; lock up; lock down; incarceration; incarcerated; Bastille; big cage; big house; big school; black hole; booby hatch; brig; bull pen; caboose; cage; calaboose; can; cell; cooler; coop; county hotel; death house. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Burton | As dogs in a wheel, or squirrels in a cage, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. |
Henrik Ibsen | A forest bird never wants a cage. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. |
Richard Lovelace | Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The Professor rapidly arranged them in two rows, so as to make a dark passage, leading straight from the door to the mouth of the cage. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He made his guests enter into the cage carefully, then he went in after them, creeping, pulled back the stones, and hermetically closed the opening |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His face was kind and he joined gently the fingers of each hand, forming a frail cage by the union of their tips |
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Health | The two kidneys are bean-shaped organs located near the middle of the back, just below the rib cage to the left and right of the spine. (references) | |
Your kidneys are bean-shaped organs, each about the size of your fist. They are located near the middle of your back, just below the rib cage. The kidneys are sophisticated trash collectors. (references) | ||
If the kidney is infected, your child may complain of pain under the side of the rib cage (the flank) or low back pain. Crying or complaining that it hurts to urinate and producing only a few drops of urine at a time are other signs of urinary tract infection. (references) | ||
Children | Bulgaria | For example, as punishment, women were held in a cage made of iron bars and wire; the NGO observers noted that the cage floor was dirty with human excrement. (references) |
Human Rights | United Kingdom | In total the security forces fired 108 plastic bullets during the year, compared with 25 in 2000. According to PSNI rules, plastic bullets should be aimed below the rib cage; nevertheless, the use of plastic bullets in prior years resulted in 17 deaths and numerous head and upper body injuries. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SAFETY-:CLUTCH:, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall of an elevator, or cage, in case of an accident to the hoisting apparatus. Once I seen a human ruin In an elevator-well, And his members was bestrewin' All the place where he had fell. And I says, apostrophisin' That uncommon woful wreck: "Your position's so surprisin' That I tremble for your neck!" Then that ruin, smilin' sadly And impressive, up and spoke: "Well, I wouldn't tremble badly, For it's been a fortnight broke." Then, for further comprehension Of his attitude, he begs I will focus my attention On his various arms and legs -- How they all are contumacious; Where they each, respective, lie; How one trotter proves ungracious, T'other one an alibi. These particulars is mentioned For to show his dismal state, Which I wasn't first intentioned To specifical relate. None is worser to be dreaded That I ever have heard tell Than the gent's who there was spreaded In that elevator-well. Now this tale is allegoric -- It is figurative all, For the well is metaphoric And the feller didn't fall. I opine it isn't moral For a writer-man to cheat, And despise to wear a laurel As was gotten by deceit. For 'tis Politics intended By the elevator, mind, It will boost a person splendid If his talent is the kind. Col. Bryan had the talent (For the busted man is him) And it shot him up right gallant Till his head begun to swim. Then the rope it broke above him And he painful come to earth Where there's nobody to love him For his detrimented worth. Though he's livin' none would know him, Or at leastwise not as such. Moral of this woful poem: Frequent oil your safety-clutch. Porfer Poog |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.14% of the time. "Cage" is used about 928 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) | 92.14% | 855 | 8,259 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.92% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.97% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.75% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 928 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "cage" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cage | Last name | 2,000 | 4,807 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "cage": batting cage ♦ bearing cage ♦ Bell cage ♦ bird cage ♦ cage aerial ♦ cage bird ♦ cage in ♦ cage up ♦ elevator cage ♦ Faraday cage ♦ gilded cage ♦ hoisting cage ♦ iron cage ♦ ladder cage ♦ lift cage ♦ press cage ♦ rescue cage ♦ rib cage ♦ safety cage ♦ squirrel cage ♦ weighing cage ♦ wire mesh cage. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cage": cage-birds, cage-haters, cage-like, cage-style. | |
Ending with "cage": rib-cage. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bird cage | 2,722 | rat cage | 128 |
batting cage | 704 | chinchilla cage | 126 |
cage | 671 | byron cage | 119 |
nicolas cage | 654 | snake cage | 118 |
rabbit cage | 543 | cat cage | 109 |
reptile cage | 370 | california cage | 103 |
pet cage | 323 | batting cage net | 79 |
cage code | 305 | luke cage | 69 |
parrot cage | 299 | chameleon cage | 68 |
hamster cage | 281 | baseball batting cage | 66 |
dog cage | 268 | rib cage | 65 |
ferret cage | 253 | sugar glider cage | 62 |
roll cage | 233 | small animal cage | 61 |
nicholas cage | 196 | animal cage | 60 |
king cage | 195 | athena cage | 58 |
iguana cage | 183 | faraday cage | 56 |
tomato cage | 171 | brittany cage | 55 |
cage shark | 153 | cockatiel cage | 54 |
john cage | 137 | decorative bird cage | 54 |
guinea pig cage | 130 | baseball cage | 52 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | hok. (various references) | |
Albanian | mbyll në kafaz (coop, mew), kosh (basket, car, pannier, playpen, pot, sidecar), kafaz (coop, Cote, hutch, mew, trellis), burg (calaboose, can, choky, clink, gaol, jail, limbo, lockup, mill, Nick, pen, penitentiary, poky, prison, prison house, quod, stir), ashensor miniere. (various references) | |
Arabic | قفص (chest, coop, crate, pen), حجيزة ذات قضبان, سلة لكرة السلة. (various references) | |
Basque | kaiola. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хвърлям в затвор, кафез (birdcage, crate, safe), кабина (booth, box, cab, cabin, gondola), клетка за асансьор, клетка (bay, cell, mesh, mew), затварям в клетка (coop, encage), арест (arrest, custody, glass house, lockup, pinch, round house, taking). (various references) | |
Chinese | 笼子, 籠子 (basket, container, coop), 籠 (basket), 柙 (pen, scabbard), 櫳 (bar, gratings), 樊 (fence). (various references) | |
Czech | klec (birdcage, mew). (various references) | |
Danish | bur. (various references) | |
Dutch | kooi (berth, bunk, cabin, car, couch, hammock, quoin). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kaĝo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | búr. (various references) | |
Farsi | قفس (Birdhouse, Coop), درقفس نهادن , درزندان افکندن . (various references) | |
Finnish | panna häkkiin (coop in), häkki (coop). (various references) | |
French | cage (cabin). (various references) | |
Frisian | kouwe, koai. (various references) | |
German | käfig, bauer (boor, bumpkin, farmer, grower, hans, husbandman, pawn, peasant, peasants, rustic, tiller, yokel). (various references) | |
Greek | κλουβί (coop, cratch, housing, millstand, stand). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כלוב (basket). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kalitka (aviary, Bird cage, mew), hadifogolytábor (laager, lager, prison camp). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sangkar, mengurung, kurungan. (various references) | |
Italian | gabbia (crate, hutch, laboratory, lavatory, reinforcement, well). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 籠 (basket), 篭 (basket), 檻 (jail cell, pen), グロー放電 (cake, case, case by case, case method, case study, casework, caseworker, chaos, chassis ground, frame ground, gloria, glossary, glow discharge, groggy, grotesque, knock-out, KO). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おり (chance, jail cell, pen, suitable time, weave, weaving, woven item), かご (basket, bier, divine protection, fault, litter, mistake, non-standard pronunciation, palanquin), ケージ . (various references) | |
Korean | 감금소. (various references) | |
Manx | cur ayns clean (cradle), caaidje, caaidjaghey. (various references) | |
Norwegian | bur (hutch). (various references) | |
Occitan | gàbia. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kouchi, houla. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gaiola (bird cage, coop), jaula, caixa (ash-box, bank window, bin, box, bunker, cash keeper, cashier, cashier's stand, chest, coalscuttle, coffer, desk, fund, hutch, jug, kit, money box, pay-box, receiver, safe, sheath, teller, treasurer, vessel, writing-table). (various references) | |
Romanian | cuşcã (coop, hutch), colivie (Bird cage, cell), coş (acne, basket, basketful, blackhead, chest, chimney, creel, flue, grog-blossom, hamper, hopper, pannier, rising, smoke stack, spot, tidy, tilt), temniţã (gaol, jail, keep, prison), lift (elevator, lift), bãga într-o colivie, închisoare (cooler, coop, correction, gaol, hold, house of detention, imprisonment, jug, keep, pound, prison, station house), închide (bar, block, bolt, chest, clap up, clasp, clench, close, closet, comprise, confine, contain, crib, darken, embay, enclose, fasten, furl, girdle, half-shut, heal, hem, impound, imprison, include, lock, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut the works down, stopper). (various references) | |
Russian | ящик (ark, ash bin, ash-bin, bin, box, case, chest, packing case, receptacle), сажать в клетку (encage, mew), садок (corf, hatchery, nurse-pond, pond, vivarium), кабина лифта (car), клеть (stand), клетка (casing, cell, cellule, hutch, mew), обойма (cartridge clip, clip, fork, girdle, hoop, race, yoke), помещать в клетку/ клетка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | staviti u kavez, koš (basket, crib, crosstrees), kavez (coop). (various references) | |
Spanish | jaula (birdcage, calaboose, crate, hutch, jail, lock up, mew). (various references) | |
Sranan | koy. (various references) | |
Swedish | bur (clink, coop, crate, goal, hutch, jug, stir). (various references) | |
Thai | กรง (coop, hutch). (various references) | |
Turkish | kafes (bird cage, coop, grating, grill, grille, hutch, jail, lath, lattice, mew, pen, trellis). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kapasa (counter, shelf). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | утримувати у в'язниці, утримувати в клітці, сажалка (nurse-pond, nursery, vivarium), саджати в клітку, рибник (nurse-pond, nursery), кіш, кабіна (booth, cabin, car), кліть, клітка (Bird cage), в'язниця (bandhouse, calaboose, can, choky, clink, dump, gaol, jail, limbo, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, slammer, ward), ворота (clow, entry, gate, gateway, goal), обойма (girdle, shackle), посадити за грати. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chuồng, cũi trại giam tù binh, nhà giam (bagnio, clink, gaol, prison, prison-house, tolbooth, tollbooth), lồng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | asa. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arca, arcad, arcae, arcam, arcaque, archad, arcis, cavea, caveam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Jeremiah Chapter 5, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | WV pagiV efestamenh plhrhV peteinwn outwV oi oikoi autwn plhreiV dolou dia touto emegalunqhsan kai eplouthsan |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sicut decipula plena avibus sic domus eorum plenae dolo ideo magnificati sunt et ditati |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As a pit falle ful of briddes, so the hous of hem ful of treccherie. Therfore thei ben magnefied, and richid inwardli, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and have grown rich. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Jeremiah Chapter 5, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | Ingon sa usa ka halwa nga napuno sa mga langgam, mao usab ang ilang mga balay napuno sa mga limbong: busa sila nangahimong dagku ug nangahimong bahandianon. |
| Croatian | Kao što je krletka puna ptica, tako su njihove kuæe pune grabeža; postadoše tako veliki i bogati, |
| Danish | Som et Bur er fuldt af Fugle, således er deres Huse fulde af Svig; derfor blev de store og rige. |
| Dutch | Gelijk een kouw vol is van gevogelte, alzo zijn hun huizen vol van bedrog; daarom zijn zij groot en rijk geworden. |
| Finnish | Niinkuin häkki on täynnä lintuja, niin heidän huoneensa ovat petosta täynnä. Siitä he ovat tulleet suuriksi ja rikkaiksi, |
| French | Comme une cage est remplie d`oiseaux, Leurs maisons sont remplies de fraude; C`est ainsi qu`ils deviennent puissants et riches. |
| German | Und ihre Häuser sind voller Tücke, wie ein Vogelbauer voller Lockvögel ist. Daher werden sie gewaltig und reich, fett und glatt. |
| Hungarian | Mint a madárral teli kalitka, úgy vannak teli az õ házaik álnoksággal; ezért lettek nagyokká és gazdagokká! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Seperti pemburu burung mengisi sangkarnya dengan burung, begitu pula mereka mengisi rumah mereka dengan barang-barang hasil tipuan. Demikianlah mereka menjadi berkuasa dan kaya |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Seperti sangkaran penuh dengan burung, demikianlah rumah mereka itu penuh dengan tipu, maka oleh sebabnya mereka itu sudah menjadi besar dan kaya. |
| Maori | Kei te whare manu e ki ana i nga manu te rite o o ratou whare e ki tonu nei i te tinihanga: na reira ratou i nui ai, i whai taonga ai. |
| Norwegian | Som et bur er fullt av fugler, således er deres hus fulle av svik; derfor er de blitt store og rike. |
| Portuguese | Qual gaiola cheia de pássaros, assim as suas casas estão cheias de dolo; por isso se engrandeceram, e enriqueceram. |
| Rumanian | Cum se umple o colivie de pqsqri, awa se umplu casele lor prin viclewug; awa ajung ei puternici wi bogayi. |
| Russian | лБЛ ЛМЕФЛБ, ОБРПМОЕООБС РФЙГБНЙ, ДПНЩ ЙИ РПМОЩ ПВНБОБ; ЮТЕЪ ЬФП ПОЙ Й ЧПЪЧЩУЙМЙУШ Й ТБЪВПЗБФЕМЙ, |
| Spanish | Como jaulas llenas de pájaros, así están sus casas llenas de fraude. Así se han hecho grandes y ricos. |
| Swedish | Såsom när en bur är full av fåglar, så äro deras hus fulla av svek. Därigenom hava de blivit så stora och rika; de hava blivit feta och skinande. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cage": caged, cageful, cagefuls, cageling, cagelings, cager, cagers, cages, cagey, cageyness, cageynesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cage": birdcage, boscage, encage, incage, socage, soccage, uncage. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cage": birdcages, boscages, encaged, encages, incaged, incages, socager, socagers, socages, soccages, uncaged, uncages. (additional references) | |
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"Cage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acage, Acg, acgh, acgm, acgs, caae, cabe, cabee, Caega, Cagan, Cagd, cagen, Cager, caget, cagg, caggy, Cagiva, cago, cagr, cagree, cags, cagy, cahg, Caig, caja, caje, cajet, caju, calge, camg, canga, Cange, carga, cauge, caxe, Ccagg, ceg, Cega, cege, cegi, cegy, cfag, cga, Cgce, cge, Chagga, chague, Ciga, cige, cigua, claeg, cmg, coage, coge, cogea, cogi, cogu, Cpga, craga, crage, cuge, cwag, Cyg, Fcegce, kaga, Kaige, Karge, Keage, kege, kige, Lcfga, Mcfague, rcage, yage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cage" (pronounced kā"j) |
| 2 | -ā" j | age, assuage, backstage, disengage, engage, enrage, Gage, gauge, offstage, onstage, page, rage, restage, sage, stage, upstage, wage. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g" | |
-1 letter: ace, age, gae. | |
-2 letters: ae, ag. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g" | |
+1 letter: cadge, caged, cager, cages, cagey, glace, grace. | |
+2 letters: agency, cadged, cadger, cadges, cagers, cagier, cangue, change, charge, cowage, cubage, encage, gauche, glaces, glance, graced, graces, incage, legacy, socage, uncage. | |
+3 letters: acreage, acrogen, agapeic, anergic, angelic, anglice, apogeic, boscage, cabbage, cadgers, cageful, cagiest, cangues, cargoes, carnage, cartage, ceasing, changed, changer, changes, charged, charger, charges, cigaret, clagged, clanged, clanger, coagent, cognate, coinage, collage, congaed, congeal, cordage, corkage, corsage, cottage, courage, cowages, cowhage, cragged, cubages, cuttage, decagon, decalog, dockage, dogface, elegiac, encaged, encages, escuage, galenic, gametic, ganache, gaucher, glaceed, glacier, glanced, glancer, glances, gouache, gracile, grackle, grimace, gynecia, incaged, incages, jackleg, lockage, package, peacing, pelagic, scalage, scutage, socager, socages, soccage, uncaged, uncages. | |
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