Cage vs. Wage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cage and Wage
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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.
Wage
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).
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.
Wage
A regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work.
Cage
A barred room or fenced enclosure for confining prisoners.
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Wage
Wages The price of labor in an economy.
Cage
An enclosing openwork structure
Placed a protective cage over the sapling.
A bank teller's cage.
Wage
Often wages (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A fitting return; a recompense
The wages of sin.
Cage
A skeletal support, as for a building; a framework.
Wage
To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).
Cage
An elevator car.
Wage
(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.
Cage
(Baseball) A batting cage.
Wage
To wager, bet.
Cage
(Sports) A goal, as in hockey or soccer, made of a net attached to a frame.
Wage
To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
Cage
To put or confine in or as if in a cage.
Wage
To employ for wages; to hire.
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.
Wage
(transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
Cage
The passenger compartment of a lift.
Wage
(transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
Cage
The goal.
Wage
To give security for the performance of
Cage
An automobile.
Wage
To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
My life I never but as a pawnTo wage against thy enemies.
Cage
(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
Wage
To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
To wake and wage a danger profitless.
Cage
(athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
Wage
To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
[He pondered] which of all his sons was fitTo reign and wage immortal war with wit.
The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.
Cage
An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
Wage
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
Cage
(engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
Wage
To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers.
I would have them waged for their labor.
Cage
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
Wage
To give security for the performance of.
Cage
(mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
Wage
To bind one's self; to engage.
Cage
(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
Wage
That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
Cage
(graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
Wage
That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; - at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
By Tom Thumb, a fairy page,He sent it, and doth him engage,By promise of a mighty wage,It secretly to carry.
Our praises are our wages.
Existing legislation on the subject of wages.
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.
Wage
Something that remunerates;
Wages were paid by check
He wasted his pay on drink
They saved a quarter of all their earnings
Cage
To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
Wage
As of wars, battles, or campaigns;
Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe
Cage
(figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
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.
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.
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.
Cage
A place of confinement for malefactors
Stone walls do not a prison make,Nor iron bars a cage.
Cage
An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
Cage
A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
Cage
The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
Cage
The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
Cage
The catcher's wire mask.
Cage
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Cage
An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept
Cage
Something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
Cage
United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
Cage
The net that is the goal in ice hockey
Cage
A movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
Cage
Confine in a cage;
The animal was caged
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