Usually means: Enclosure for confining or protecting.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. cage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. cage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. cage: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Cage, cage: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cage, cage: Wordnik
  6. cage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Cage, cage: Wiktionary
  8. cage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cage: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cage: Dictionary.com
  12. cage: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. cage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. CAGE (organisation), CAGE, Cage (MAX), Cage (band), Cage (disambiguation), Cage (enclosure), Cage (film), Cage (graph theory), Cage (hip hop artist), Cage (organisation), Cage (rapper), Cage, The Cage (Abraham book), The Cage (Sender book), The Cage (Star Trek), The Cage (TOS episode), The Cage (The Killing), The Cage (Tygers of Pan Tang album), The Cage (Weiss book), The Cage (ballet), The Cage (basketball), The Cage (novel), The Cage, The cage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cage: Rhymezone
  18. cage, cage (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Cage: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. cage: Free Dictionary
  22. cage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Cage, cage: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Cage: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Cage, cage: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
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  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Cage: bizterms.net
  4. Cage: Investopedia
  5. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  6. Cage (disambiguation), cage: Legal dictionary
  7. Cage (disambiguation), cage: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAGE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Cage (disambiguation), cage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. CAGE, Cage (disambiguation): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CAGE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. cage: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cage: Easton Bible
  2. Cage: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cage: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Cage: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cage: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Cage: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Cage: Bicycle Glossary
  3. Keno Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Cage: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  3. CAGE: Mining Terms used in mid 1800's
  4. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  5. Wine Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
noun:  The passenger compartment of a lift.
noun:  (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
noun:  (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
noun:  (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
noun:  (slang) A prison or prison cell.
noun:  (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
noun:  An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
noun:  (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
noun:  A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
noun:  (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
noun:  (baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
noun:  (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
noun:  In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
verb:  (transitive) To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To imprison.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
verb:  (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
verb:  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 registered addresses.
noun:  A surname from French.

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