Definition of cage

"cage" in the noun sense

1. cage, coop

an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

2. cage

something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement

3. Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.

United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)

4. cage

the net that is the goal in ice hockey

5. batting cage, cage

a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice

"cage" in the verb sense

1. cage, cage in

confine in a cage

"The animal was caged"

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Quotations for cage

As nimble as a cow in a cage. [ Proverb ]

A bird in a cage is not half a bird. [ Beecher ]

A nightingale cannot sing in a cage. [ Proverb ]

Better to be a bird in the wood than one in the cage. [ Italian Proverb ]

He will ill catch a bird flying that cannot keep his own in a cage. [ Proverb ]

Man is free as the bird in the cage: he has powers of motion within certain limits. [ Lavater ]

The canary-bird sings the sweeter the longer it has been trained in a darkened cage. [ Jean Paul ]

The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. [ Epes Sargent ]

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. [ Burton ]

Written on a Skull: Lamp, what hast thou done with the flame? Skeleton, what hast thou done with the soul? Deserted cage, what hast thou done with the bird? Volcano, what hast thou done with the lava? [ Mme. A. Segalas ]

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless soul, like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong! [ Chapin ]

When you take the wires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down? - that it does not release me, and put me into some better place, and better condition of life? [ Bishop Randolph S. Foster ]

cage in Scrabble®

The word cage is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters cage:

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cage in Words With Friends™

The word cage is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters cage:

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Words within the letters of cage

2 letter words in cage (1 word)

3 letter words in cage (2 words)

4 letter words in cage (1 word)

cage + 1 blank (5 words)

Words containing the sequence cage

Words with cage in them (6 words)

Words that end with cage (5 words)

Word Growth involving cage

Shorter words in cage

ag age

Longer words containing cage

birdcage birdcages

cagebird cagebirds

caged uncaged

cageful cagefuls

cageless

cagelike

cageling cagelings

cages birdcages

cages nanocages

cages ribcages

cages uncages

cagework cageworks

cagey cageyness

nanocage nanocages

ribcage ribcages

uncage uncaged

uncage uncages