Cage vs. Mew — 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 cage for hawks, especially when molting.

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 secret place; a hideaway.

A barred room or fenced enclosure for confining prisoners.

A group of buildings originally containing private stables, often converted into residential apartments.

An enclosing openwork structure

A small street, alley, or courtyard on which such buildings stand.

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

A high-pitching crying sound, especially that of a cat.

An elevator car.

A migratory gull (Larus canus) that breeds in northern Eurasia and northwest North America.

(Baseball) A batting cage.

To confine in or as if in a cage.

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

To molt. Used of a hawk.

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

To make a high-pitched, crying sound, as that of a cat.

An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

A gull, seagull.

The passenger compartment of a lift.

(obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.

The goal.

(obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.

An automobile.

(obsolete) A breeding-cage for birds.

(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.

(falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.

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

A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.

An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.

The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten.

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

The crying sound of a gull or buzzard.

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

(obsolete) An exclamation of disapproval; a boo.

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

(archaic) To shut away, confine, lock up.

(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.

(of a bird) To moult.

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

To cause to moult.

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.

To shed antlers.

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

To meow.

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

(of a gull or buzzard) To make its cry.

(aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.

To flatten the tongue against the roof of the mouth for supposed health benefits.

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 cat's (especially a kitten's) cry.

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

A gull's or buzzard's cry.

A place of confinement for malefactors

(archaic) An exclamation of disapproval; boo.

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

A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.

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

A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; - in the latter sense usually in the plural.

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

A stable or range of stables for horses; - compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.

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

The common cry of a cat.

The catcher's wire mask.

To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.

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

To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.

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

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

Something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement

To cry as a cat.

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

The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)

The net that is the goal in ice hockey

The common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America

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

Cry like a cat;

Confine in a cage;

Utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls