Le mot anglais pour cage est
cage

Définition en anglais

Traductions de cage et leurs définitions

cage	©
1. n. Cage.
2. v. Encager

cage	©
1. n. 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.
2. n. The passenger compartment of a lift.
3. n. (hockey, water polo) The goal.
4. n. (US, derogatory slang) An automobile.
5. n. (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
6. n. (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
7. n. An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
8. n. (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
9. n. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
10. n. (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
11. n. (baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
12. n. (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
13. v. To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
14. v. (figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
15. v. 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

shaft	©
1. n. Bâton, gaule, perche, barre, barreau.
A shaft is the long narrow body of a spear or arrow
2. n. Rachis d'une plume.
A shaft is the main axis of a feather
I had no idea that they removed the feathers' shafts to make the pillows softer!
3. n. Puits de mine.
A shaft is a long narrow passage sunk into the earth, for mining etc; a mineshaft.
Your grandfather used to work with a crane hauling ore out of the gold mine's shafts.
4. n. Cage, gaine d'ascenseur.
A shaft is a vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
Darn it, my keys fell through the gap and into the elevator shaft.
5. n. Conduit d'aération.
A shaft is a ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
6. n. (Argot) Escroquerie
A shaft is a malicious act, as in “to give someone the shaft”
That guy at work gave me the shaft, he ratted me out to the boss for being late!
7. n. (Vulg) Bite.
8. n. Brancard (de charrette).
9. v. (Familier) (Populaire) Tricher, escroquer.
I trusted him and he really shafted me.
10. v. (Vulg) (Argot) Baiser.
11. v. Creuser un puits de mine.

shaft	©
1. n. (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
2. n. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
Her hand slipped off the javelin's shaft towards the spearpoint and that's why her score was lowered.
3. n. (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
4. n. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive, an axle, etc.
5. n. A beam or ray of light.
Isn't that shaft of light from that opening in the cave beautiful?
6. n. The main axis of a feather.
I had no idea that they removed the feathers' shafts to make the pillows softer!
7. n. (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
Sarah, if you wear gloves your hands might not slip on your shaft and you can up your game, girl!
8. n. A long, narrow passage sunk into the earth, either natural or for artificial.
Your grandfather used to work with a crane hauling ore out of the gold mine's shafts.
9. n. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
Darn it, my keys fell through the gap and into the elevator shaft.
10. n. A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
Our parrot flew into the air duct and got stuck in the shaft.
11. n. (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
12. n. The main cylindrical part of the penis.
The female labia minora is homologous to the penis shaft skin of males.
13. n. The chamber of a blast furnace.
14. v. (transitive, slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.
15. v. To equip with a shaft.
16. v. (transitive, slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.
Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.

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