Cage vs. Crush — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cage and Crush
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Cage
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.
Crush
To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure
The falling rock crushed the car.
Cage
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.
Crush
To break, pound, or grind (stone or ore, for example) into small fragments or powder.
Cage
A barred room or fenced enclosure for confining prisoners.
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Crush
To put down with force; subdue
The regime crushed the rebellion.
Cage
An enclosing openwork structure
Placed a protective cage over the sapling.
A bank teller's cage.
Crush
To overwhelm or oppress severely
Spirits that had been crushed by rejection and failure.
Cage
A skeletal support, as for a building; a framework.
Crush
To defeat overwhelmingly
Our team was crushed in the playoffs.
Cage
An elevator car.
Crush
To crumple or rumple
Crushed the freshly ironed shirt.
Cage
(Baseball) A batting cage.
Crush
To hug, especially with great force.
Cage
(Sports) A goal, as in hockey or soccer, made of a net attached to a frame.
Crush
To hit or propel with great force
A swing of the bat that crushed a fastball over the wall.
Cage
To put or confine in or as if in a cage.
Crush
To press upon, shove, or crowd.
Cage
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.
Crush
To extract or obtain by pressing or squeezing
Crush juice from a grape.
Cage
The passenger compartment of a lift.
Crush
To be or become crushed
Aluminum cans crush easily.
Cage
The goal.
Crush
To proceed or move by crowding or pressing
The fans crushed forward to get a glimpse of the movie star.
Cage
An automobile.
Crush
The act of crushing or the pressure involved in crushing
Matter superheated by the crush of gravity around black holes.
Cage
(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
Crush
A great crowd
A crush of spectators.
Cage
(athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
Crush
A substance prepared by or as if by crushing, especially a fruit drink
Orange crush.
Cage
An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
Crush
A usually temporary infatuation
Had a crush on her friend's cousin.
Cage
(engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
Crush
One who is the object of such an infatuation.
Cage
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
Crush
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
Cage
(mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
Crush
Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
Cage
(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
Crush
A violent crowding.
Cage
(graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
Crush
A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
A crush at a reception
Cage
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.
Crush
(slang) A group or gang.
Cage
To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
Crush
A crowd control barrier.
Cage
(figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
Crush
A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
Cage
(aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
To prevent damage to its gimbal mountings during extreme aerobatic maneuvers, the navball should be caged before the start of a display sequence.
Crush
(informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.
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.
Crush
The human object of such infatuation or affection.
Cage
A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
In his cage, like parrot fine and gay.
Crush
A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
Cage
A place of confinement for malefactors
Stone walls do not a prison make,Nor iron bars a cage.
Crush
(dated) A party or festive function.
Cage
An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
Crush
(Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
Cage
A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
Crush
The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
Black crush; white crush
Cage
The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
Crush
A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
Cage
The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
Crush
To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
To crush grapes
Cage
The catcher's wire mask.
Crush
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
To crush quartz
Cage
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Crush
(figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
Cage
An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept
Crush
To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!
Cage
Something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
Crush
To oppress or grievously burden.
Cage
United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
Crush
To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
Cage
The net that is the goal in ice hockey
Crush
(intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
An eggshell crushes easily
Cage
A movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
Crush
To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
She's crushing on him.
Cage
Confine in a cage;
The animal was caged
Crush
To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
Crush
To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.
Crush
To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.
Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut.
The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall.
Crush
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
Crush
To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.
Crush
To oppress or burden grievously.
Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway.
Crush
To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels.
Crush
To subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch.
Crush
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.
Crush
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Crush
Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.
Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night.
Crush
Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
Crush
A dense crowd of people
Crush
Temporary love of an adolescent
Crush
The act of crushing
Crush
Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority;
The government oppresses political activists
Crush
To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;
Crush an aluminum can
Squeeze a lemon
Crush
Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
We beat the competition
Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
Crush
Break into small pieces;
The car crushed the toy
Crush
Humiliate or depress completely;
She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation
The death of her son smashed her
Crush
Crush or bruise;
Jam a toe
Crush
Make ineffective;
Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination
Crush
Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure;
The plastic bottle crushed against the wall
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