Cage vs. Cell — What's the Difference?

A cage is an enclosure often made of mesh, bars, or wires, used to confine, contain or protect something or someone. A cage can serve many purposes, including keeping an animal or person in captivity, capturing an animal or person, and displaying an animal at a zoo.

A narrow confining room, as in a prison or convent.

A structure for confining birds or animals, enclosed on at least one side by a grating of wires or bars that lets in air and light.

A small enclosed cavity or space, such as a compartment in a honeycomb or within a plant ovary or an area bordered by veins in an insect's wing.

A barred room or fenced enclosure for confining prisoners.

(Biology) The smallest structural unit of an organism that is capable of independent functioning, consisting of cytoplasm, usually one nucleus, and various other organelles, all surrounded by a semipermeable cell membrane.

An enclosing openwork structure

(Architecture) See web.

A skeletal support, as for a building; a framework.

The smallest organizational unit of a clandestine group or movement, such as a banned political movement or a terrorist group. A cell's leader is often the only person who knows members of the organization outside the cell.

An elevator car.

A single unit for electrolysis or conversion of chemical into electric energy, usually consisting of a container with electrodes and an electrolyte; a battery. Also called electrochemical cell.

(Baseball) A batting cage.

A single unit that converts radiant energy into electric energy

(Sports) A goal, as in hockey or soccer, made of a net attached to a frame.

A fuel cell.

To put or confine in or as if in a cage.

A geographic area or zone surrounding a transmitter in a cellular telephone system.

An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

A cellphone.

The passenger compartment of a lift.

(Computers) A basic unit of storage in a computer memory that can hold one unit of information, such as a character or word.

The goal.

A storm cell.

An automobile.

A small humble abode, such as a hermit's cave or hut.

(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.

A small religious house dependent on a larger one, such as a priory within an abbey.

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

A box or other unit on a spreadsheet or similar array at the intersection of a column and a row.

An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.

To store in a honeycomb.

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

To live in or share a prison cell.

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

A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

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

A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.

(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.

A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

(graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.

A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.

In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.

Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.

Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.

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

(entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

(aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.

(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.

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.

A section or compartment of a larger structure.

A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.

Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.

A place of confinement for malefactors

A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.

An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.

(biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.

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

(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.

(computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

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

(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.

The catcher's wire mask.

A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.

(communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.

An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept

(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.

Something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement

(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope. Category:en:Higher-dimensional geometry

United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)

(statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.

The net that is the goal in ice hockey

(architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

A movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice

(architecture) A cella.

Confine in a cage;

(entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

A cellular phone.

(transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

Any small cavity, or hollow place.

The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.

To place or inclose in a cell.

Any small compartment;

(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; cells may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals

A device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

A small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

A hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

Small room is which a monk or nun lives

A room where a prisoner is kept