Pen vs. Cage
Difference Between Pen and Cage
Pennoun
An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
There are two steers in the third pen.Cagenoun
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.Pennoun
(slang) A prison cell.
They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.Cagenoun
The passenger compartment of a lift.
Pennoun
(baseball) The bullpen.
Two righties are up in the pen.Cagenoun
The goal.
Pennoun
A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
He took notes with a pen.Cagenoun
An automobile.
Pennoun
(figurative) A writer, or his style.
He has a sharp pen.Cagenoun
(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
Pennoun
(colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.Cagenoun
(athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
Pennoun
A light pen.
Cagenoun
An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
Pennoun
(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
Cagenoun
(engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
Pennoun
A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
Cagenoun
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
Pennoun
(poetic) A wing.
Cagenoun
(mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
Pennoun
A female swan.
Cagenoun
(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
Pennoun
penalty
Cagenoun
(graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
Penverb
(transitive) To enclose in a pen.
Cageverb
To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
Penverb
(transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
Cageverb
(figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
Pennoun
a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
Cageverb
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.
Pennoun
an enclosure for confining livestock
Cagenoun
an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept
Pennoun
a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
Cagenoun
something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
Pennoun
a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
Cagenoun
United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
Pennoun
female swan
Cagenoun
the net that is the goal in ice hockey
Penverb
produce a literary work;
She composed a poemHe wrote four novelsCagenoun
a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
Cageverb
confine in a cage;
The animal was caged
