What is "cage"

Cage \Cage\ (k[=a]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caged (k[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Caging.] To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. ``Caged and starved to death.''
--Cowper.

Cage \Cage\, n. [F. cage, fr. L. cavea cavity, cage, fr. cavus hollow. Cf. Cave, n., Cajole, Gabion.]

1. A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.

   In his cage, like parrot fine and gay.
   --Cowper.

2. A place of confinement for malefactors
   --Shak.

   Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.
   --Lovelace.

3. (Carp.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
   --Gwilt.

4. (Mach.)

   1. A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.

   2. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.

5. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.

6. (Mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.

7. (Baseball) The catcher's wire mask.

early 13c., from Old French cage "cage, prison; retreat, hideout" (12c.), from Latin cavea "hollow place, enclosure for animals, coop, hive, stall, dungeon, spectators' seats in the theater" (source also of Italian gabbia "basket for fowls, coop;" see cave (n.)).

1570s, from cage (n.). Related: Caged; caging.

n. (surname)

1. n. an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept [syn: coop]

2. something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement

3. United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992) [syn: John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.]

4. the net that is the goal in ice hockey

5. a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice [syn: batting cage]

v. confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" [syn: cage in]

CAGE may refer to:

• CAGE questionnaire
• CAGE (organisation), a London-based human rights organization
• Cap analysis gene expression
• Commercial and Government Entity

• Cage (disambiguation)

"Cage" is a single released by Dir En Grey on May 26, 1999. The second track is a remix of the song "「S」", originally released on the EP Missa. The song was covered by Mejibray for Crush! 3 - 90's V-Rock Best Hit Cover Love Songs-, which was released on June 27, 2012 and features current visual kei bands covering love songs by visual kei artists of the 90's. The title track is known for its music video, featuring vocalist Kyo torturing a ballerina. It is also known for Toshiya's bass solo. The song is the band's most popular of their old sound, along with Yokan.

A cage is an enclosure often made of mesh, bars or wires, used to confine, contain or protect something or someone. A cage can serve many purposes, including keeping an animal in captivity, capturing, and being used for display of an animal at a zoo.

Christian Palko (born May 4, 1973), better known by his stage name Cage, is an American hip hop recording artist from Middletown, Orange County, New York. Cage is perhaps best known for his work under the labels Definitive Jux and Eastern Conference, as well as his 2002 debut studio album Movies for the Blind. Since his debut, Cage has released four albums, with the latest being 2013's Kill the Architect. He has also released two compilation albums and two extended plays.

Cage is the founder of the underground hip hop supergroup The Weathermen, which was formed in 1999. He also established a group called Smut Peddlers, with hip hop duo The High & Mighty, publishing an album titled Porn Again, in 2001. He is also known for his collaborations with New Jersey rapper Tame One; the two are collectively known as Leak Bros.. Cage was also one-half of the duo The Nighthawks, which paired him alongside fellow American rapper Camu Tao, until Tao's death, which occurred in 2008.

Cage is an American heavy metal band from San Diego, California.

Cage is a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the 1991 census, the village is located in the municipality of Srebrenik.

Cage is a 1989 American martial arts action film starring Reb Brown and Lou Ferrigno.

In the mathematical area of graph theory, a cage is a regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.

Formally, an (r,g)-graph is defined to be a graph in which each vertex has exactly r neighbors, and in which the shortest cycle has length exactly g. It is known that an (r,g)-graph exists for any combination of r ≥ 2 and g ≥ 3. An (r,g)-cage is an (r,g)-graph with the fewest possible number of vertices, among all (r,g)-graphs.

If a Moore graph exists with degree r and girth g, it must be a cage. Moreover, the bounds on the sizes of Moore graphs generalize to cages: any cage with odd girth g must have at least

1 + r∑(r − 1)
vertices, and any cage with even girth g must have at least

2∑(r − 1)

vertices. Any (r,g)-graph with exactly this many vertices is by definition a Moore graph and therefore automatically a cage.

There may exist multiple cages for a given combination of r and g. For instance there are three nonisomorphic (3,10)-cages, each with 70 vertices : the Balaban 10-cage, the Harries graph and the Harries–Wong graph. But there is only one (3,11)-cage : the Balaban 11-cage (with 112 vertices).

CAGE, formerly Cageprisoners Ltd, is a London-based advocacy organization with an Islamic focus, whose stated aim is "empower communities impacted by the War on Terror" and "highlight and campaign against state policies" pertaining to the War on Terror". The organization has worked closely with number of former detainees held by the United States and campaigns on behalf of Muslim prisoners, including convicted terrorists.

Its director, Moazzam Begg, is a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was released without charge in 2005 by President Bush over the objections of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the FBI (all of whom were concerned that Begg could still be a dangerous terrorist). In November 2010, The Guardian reported that US embassy cables showed a US U-turn, praising Begg over his campaign for Europe to take in other Guantanamo detainees.