Cage vs Cate - What's the difference?

cage | cate |

As a proper noun cage

is .

As a noun cate is

castle.

cage

English

Noun

(en noun)

an enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

We keep a bird in a cage .

The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.

The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage .

the passenger compartment of a lift

(hockey, water polo) the goal.

(US derogatory slang) automobile

(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.

(athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.

(obsolete) A place of confinement for malefactors.

(Shakespeare)

* Lovelace

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

An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.

the cage of a staircase

(Gwilt)

(engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.

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

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

(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.

Derived terms

* birdcage * cageling * cagey * roll cage

Verb

(cag)

To put into a cage.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

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To keep in a cage.

To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.

(figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.

Derived terms

* caged in * uncage * caging list * rattle someone's cage

cate

English

Noun

(en noun)

(in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.

* 1590s , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , First Folio 1623, Act I:

Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates , and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation [...].

* 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:

Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?

* 1820 , (John Keats), The Eve of St. Agnes , l. 172-3:

All cates and dainties shall be storèd there / Quickly on this feast-night

* 1985 , (Anthony Burgess), Kingdom of the Wicked :

He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.

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