| 单词 | cage |
| 释义 | Word Frequency cage(keɪdʒ) noun 1. a. an enclosure, usually made with bars or wire, for keeping birds, monkeys, mice, etc b. (as modifier) cage bird 2. a thing or place that confines or imprisons 3. something resembling a cage in function or structure the rib cage 4. the enclosed platform of a lift, esp as used in a mine 5. engineering a skeleton ring device that ensures that the correct amount of space is maintained between the individual rollers or balls in a rolling bearing 6. informal the basket used in basketball 7. informal the goal in ice hockey 8. US a steel framework on which guns are supported 9. rattle someone's cage verb 10. (transitive) to confine in or as in a cage Word origin C13: from Old French, from Latin cavea enclosure, from cavus hollowWord Frequency Cage(keɪdʒ) noun John. 1912–92, US composer of experimental music for a variety of conventional, modified, or invented instruments. He evolved a type of music apparently undetermined by the composer, such as in Imaginary Landscape (1951) for 12 radio sets. Other works include Reunion (1968), Apartment Building 1776 (1976), and Europeras 3 and 4 (1990) |
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