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noun

• an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

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

• something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement

• the net that is the goal in ice hockey

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

verb

• confine in a cage

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noun

• a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

verb

• lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

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noun

• a heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine

• water frozen in the solid state

• the frozen part of a body of water

• diamonds

• a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes

• a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk)

• an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

• a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating

verb

• decorate with frosting

• cause to become ice or icy

• put ice on or put on ice

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