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Cage

A cage (enclosure) is a structure made of mesh, bars or wires, used to confine, contain or protect something. Examples include: Batting cage, an enclosure for baseball players to practice 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
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
Roll cage, a specially constructed frame built in or around the cab of a vehicle to protect the occupants from injury
Shark proof cage, used by scuba divers to examine sharks with better safely

Cage may also refer to:

Music and dance

John Cage, a very influential American composer
Cage (rapper), Chris Palko, an American hip hop artist
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
Byron Cage, an African-American gospel recording artist
Jerome Robbins' 1951 The Cage (ballet)

People

"Christian Cage", ring name of Jason Reso, a Canadian-American professional wrestler
David Cage, the founder of videogame development studio Quantic Dream
John Cage, an experimental composer
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

Fiction

Cage, a 1989 action film and its 1994 sequel, Cage II, both starring Reb Brown and 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 protagonist in the film xXx, starring Vin Diesel
Cage Midwell, the protagonist of the video game Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars

Acronyms

Commercial and Government Entity
CAGE questionnaire, a screening tool for determining alcoholism.
Cap analysis gene expression, a molecular biology technique
A framework for Cultural, Administrative and Political, Geographical, and Economical analysis of Psychical distance in business

Abstract concepts

Cage (graph theory), a regular graph in graph theory with the fewest vertices for a given girth and degree
Iron cage, a concept introduced by Max Weber

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Cage" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, Italian, Hungarian, Dutch.

Translation(s) in other languages: Czech: Klec (rozcestník), French: Cage (homonymie), Japanese: ケージ.


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