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Cage vs. Wage — What's the Difference?

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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