<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>A boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.</li><li>Synonyms: pound, enclosure, coop, pen.</li><li>Anything that confines or imprisons; prison.</li><li>Something resembling a cage in structure, as for a cashier or bank teller.</li><li>The car or enclosed platform of an elevator.</li><li>Mining: an enclosed platform for raising and lowering people and cars in a mine shaft.</li><li>Any skeleton framework.</li><li>Baseball: a movable backstop for use mainly in batting practice.</li><li>A frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.</li><li>Basketball: Older Use: the basket.</li><li>A loose, sheer or lacy overdress worn with a slip or a close-fitting dress.</li><li>Ordnance: a steel framework for supporting guns.</li><li>Machinery: retainer 1 (def 3).</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) caged, caging: to put or confine in or as if in a cage.</li><li>Sports: to shoot (as a puck) into a cage so as to score a goal.</li></ul>