Phrase Hound found 25 phrases and 17 compound words that contain cages. The most common are listed below. Open cages in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 25
- battery cagesplural of battery cage: A small cage in which a hen is kept to lay eggs.
- cope cagesplural of cope cage: An improvised kit of slat armor, consisting of a cage-like defensive structure placed upon an armoured vehicle as protection against explosive devices or loitering munitions.
- rib cagesplural of rib cage: A part of the skeleton within the thoracic area consisting of ribs, sternum and thoracic vertebrae.
- tiger cagesplural of tiger cage: A cage used by the Vietnamese to confine prisoners of war during the Vietnam War.
- thoracic cagesplural of thoracic cage: A rib cage.
- Faraday cagesplural of Faraday cage: Any conductive surrounding, idealized or practical, used to interrupt the transmission of electromagnetic energy or electrostatic discharge across it.
- baby cagesplural of baby cage: A wire enclosure, often a bed, that is suspended from the window of an apartment building in order to provide the baby with access to fresh air and sunshine.
- bear cagesplural of bear cage: The dangerous region of heavy precipitation and poor visibility surrounding a rotating wall cloud or a tornado.
- bird-cagesplural of bird-cage: A cage to keep pet or zoological specimen birds in.
- bone-cagesplural of bone-cage: Any rigid bony enclosure that protects or houses soft tissues, as the ribcage.
- bottle cagesplural of bottle cage: A device used to hold a water bottle so it can be attached to a bicycle.
- crow cagesplural of crow cage: A suspended cage for the public display of a prisoner.
- fish cagesplural of fish cage: A submerged cage for holding live fish until needed.
- goal cagesplural of goal cage: The framework, covered with netting or mesh, that forms an ice hockey or water polo goal.
- health cagesplural of health cage: A wire enclosure, often a bed, that is suspended from the window of an apartment building in order to provide the baby with access to fresh air and sunshine.
- orientation cagesplural of orientation cage: A cage in which a bird experiencing migratory restlessness is kept in order to observe the direction of its migratory impulse.
- queen-cagesplural of queen-cage: A small case used to introduce and protect a new queen bee to a queenless hive in order to determine whether the new queen will be accepted or rejected
- roll cagesplural of roll cage: A frame built in or around the driver and passenger compartment of a vehicle to protect its occupants from being injured in an accident, particularly if the vehicle rolls over.
- safety cagesplural of safety cage: A cage for an elevator or mine lift, having appliances to prevent it from dropping in the event that the lifting rope breaks.
- squirrel cagesplural of squirrel cage: A circular cage for a squirrel or other small animal, which rotates vertically as the animal runs at the bottom.
- squat cagesplural of squat cage: A metal cage consisting of support pillars with adjustable bars and hooks, using for supporting a barbell during heavy weightlifting exercises.
- chastity cagesplural of chastity cage: A hard cover, typically made of plastic or metal, designed to be worn over the penis and locked in order to prevent sexual intercourse, typically for long periods of time, to maintain chastity, prevent …
- gilded cagesplural of gilded cage: A place (or, by extension, situation) which is superficially attractive but nevertheless constraining; a comfortable but confined situation.
- Prince Albert cagesplural of Prince Albert cage: A type of chastity cage inserted with a Prince Albert piercing.
- Pombaline cagesplural of Pombaline cage: A symmetrical wood-lattice framework aimed at distributing earthquake force.
Compound words 17
- birdcagesplural of birdcage: A cage to keep pet or zoological specimen birds in.
- boscagesplural of boscage: A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
- cagesideAt or near the side of a cage
- clipcagesplural of clipcage: A small device for confining an insect to a leaf, mainly used in scientific studies.
- discagesthird-person singular simple present indicative of discage: To free from, or as from, a cage.
- homecagesplural of homecage: A cage in which a laboratory animal lives, and in which it is experimented on.
- isocagesplural of isocage: An environmentally-isolated cage used to contain experimental animals
- microcagesplural of microcage: A very small cage
- nanocagesplural of nanocage: A hollow nanoparticle
- photocagesplural of photocage: Any of several molecular species that can be activated by light; they are used especially in biochemistry to attach a molecule to a biologically active compound and then study its behaviour once activated.