Cage vs Shed - What's the difference?
cage | shed | Related terms |
an enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
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.
* Lovelace
An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
(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.
To put into a cage.
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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.
(transitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To part or divide.
(ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
* Mortimer
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(archaic) To pour; to make flow.
* Shakespeare
To allow to flow or fall.
To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
(obsolete) To pour forth, give off, impart.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts II:
(obsolete) To fall in drops; to pour.
* Chaucer
To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
* Ben Jonson
(weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
(weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
(obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.
(obsolete) A parting in the hair.
(obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
(British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
(British, rail transportation) A locomotive.
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Cage is a related term of shed.
As a proper noun cage
is .As a verb shed is
(transitive|obsolete|uk|dialect) to part or divide.As a noun shed is
(weaving) an area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven or shed can be a slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.cage
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
- (Shakespeare)
- Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage .
- the cage of a staircase
- (Gwilt)
Derived terms
* birdcage * cageling * cagey * roll cageVerb
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Derived terms
* caged in * uncage * caging list * rattle someone's cageshed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sheden, scheden, schoden, from (etyl) 'he cuts off'). Related to (l); (l).Verb
- A metal comb shed her golden hair.
- (Robert of Brunne)
- You must shed your fear of the unknown before you can proceed.
- When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin.
- White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.
- She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.
- Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
- I didn't shed many tears when he left me.
- A tarpaulin sheds water.
- Can you shed any light on this problem?
- Sence now that he by the right honde of god exalted is, and hath receaved off the father the promys off the holy goost, he hath sheed forthe that which ye nowe se and heare.
- Such a rain down from the welkin shadde .
- Her hair is shed with grey.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) schede, schode, (m), .Alternative forms
* (dialectal) * (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* watershedEtymology 3
Variant of shade .Noun
(en noun)- a wagon shed'''; a wood '''shed'''; a garden '''shed
