• Arabic: (qafa.s)
• Bosnian: kavez
• Czech: klec
• Danish: bur
• Finnish: häkki
• German: Käfig (1)
• Hebrew: כְּלוּב (kluv)
• Hindi: क़फ़स (qafas)
• Ido: kajo
• Italian: gabbia
• Japanese: 檻 (おり)
• Kurdish: rekeh, qefes, قه‌فه‌س
• Persian: (qafes)
• Polish: klatka
• Serbian:

  Cyrillic: кавез , крлетка

  Roman: kavez , kletka

• Spanish: jaula
• Urdu: (qafas)

• Italian: cabina

Derived terms

• birdcage
• cageling
• cagey
• roll cage

Verb

1. to put into a cage
2. advertising politics To track individual responses to direct mail.

Derived terms

• caged in
• uncage
• caging list

French

Etymology

From Old French cage, from Latin cavea

Pronunciation

• lang=fr|/kaʒ/
• SAMPA: /kaZ/

Noun

cage f

1. cage

   "La Cage aux Folles" -- The Bird Cage

Related terms

• caja
• cajon
• cave
• cavity

Cage may refer to:

Fiction

• Cage (film), a 1989 film starring Lou Ferrigno
• Cage (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• John Cage (character), a fictional character in the television show Ally McBeal
• Johnny Cage, a fictional character from the Mortal Kombat series of video games
• Luke Cage, a fictional character portrayed in Marvel Comics
• Xander Cage, the protagtonist in the film xXx, starring Vin Diesel.
• Cage Midwell, the protagonist of the video game Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars.

Music

• John Cage, a very influential American composer
• Cage (band), an American heavy metal band
• "Cage" (song), a single the Japanese rock band Dir en grey
• "La Cage" (song), the 1969 debut single by Jean-Michel Jarre
• Cage (hip hop artist), Chris Palko, an American hip hop artist
• Byron Cage, an African-American gospel recording artist

People

• Jason "Christian Cage" Reso, a Canadian-American professional wrestler
• David Cage, the founder of videogame development studio Quantic Dream
• John Cage, an experimental composer, famed for his piece 4′33″
• Matt Cage, an American professional wrestler
• Michael Cage, a former NBA basketball player
• Nicolas Cage, American actor
• Shá Cage, a professional actor, playwright, poet and producer originally from Natchez, Mississippi
• Steven Cage, a member of the Conservative Party of Canada
• Stuart Cage, an English golfer

Miscellaneous

• Acronym for Commercial and Government Entity
• Batting cage, an enclosed cage for baseball players to practice the skill of batting
• Bottle cage, a bicycle accessory used to affix a water bottle to a bike
• Cage (BDSM), an enclosure used to confine a submissive in BDSM
• Cage (enclosure), an enclosure made of mesh, bars or wires, used to confine, contain or protect something
• Cage (graph theory), a regular graph in graph theory with the fewest vertices for a given girth and degree
• CAGE questionnaire, a screening tool for determining alcoholism.
• Casino cage, the location where chips are exchanged to or from cash in a casino
• Faraday cage, an enclosure formed by conducting material
• Human rib cage, a part of the human skeleton within the thoracic area
• Iron cage, a concept introduced by Max Weber
• Roll cage, a specially constructed frame built in or around the cab of a vehicle to protect the occupants from being injured in an accident
• Shark proof cage, a cage in which a SCUBA diver enters to examine sharks better and more safely

High throughput genomics techniques

• CAGE: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/100/26/15776 (CAGE article in PNAS), cap analysis gene expression (CAGE). CAGE allows high-throughout gene expression analysis and the profiling of transcriptional start points (TSP), including promoter usage analysis.

See also

• The Cage

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