Cage vs. Wage

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 wage is the distribution from an employer of a security (expected return or profits derived solely from others) paid to an employee. Like interest is paid out to an investor on his investments, a wage is paid (from company earnings) to the employee on the employee's invested assets (time, money, labor, resources, and thought).

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 regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work.

A barred room or fenced enclosure for confining prisoners.

wages The price of labor in an economy.

An enclosing openwork structure

often wages (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A fitting return; a recompense

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

To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).

An elevator car.

(often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

(Baseball) A batting cage.

To wager, bet.

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

To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.

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

To employ for wages; to hire.

An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

(transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).

The passenger compartment of a lift.

(transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.

The goal.

To give security for the performance of

An automobile.

To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.

(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.

To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.

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

To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.

An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.

To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.

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

To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.

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

To give security for the performance of.

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

To bind one's self; to engage.

(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.

That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.

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

That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; - at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.

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.

something that remunerates;

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

as of wars, battles, or campaigns;

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

(aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.

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

A place of confinement for malefactors

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

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

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

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

The catcher's wire mask.

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

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

something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement

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

the net that is the goal in ice hockey

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

confine in a cage;