caging
present participle ofcage
cage
verb[Tusually passive]
uk/keɪdʒ/us/keɪdʒ/to put orkeepbirdsoranimalsin a cage:
cagedbirds/animals
Sam's beenprowlingaboutlike acagedanimalallmorning.
Capturing or taking possession of things
- -grabbing
- apprehend
- apprehension
- arrogate
- at bayidiom
- cage
- capture
- catch
- clutch
- collar
- entangle
- get/lay/putyourhands onsomeoneidiom
- grab
- grabber
- repo
- repo man
- repossess
- seize
- sequester
- sequestration
Examplesofcaging
caging
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Hybridization can be forced in the laboratory bycagingmales of one species with females of the other.
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A series of inoculations was made in this season bycagingadults of all three species of stainer for two days on sterile bolls.
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Significant source of parasitoid host mortality hyperodae undercagingconditions.
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Thecagingof between three and five hens in a very small cage is wholly objectionable.
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He asked who could think ofcaginglarks that sang at heaven's gates.
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That is aimed at improving thecagingof rodents.
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That object, in his opinion, is to prevent thecagingof wild birds.
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The trapping andcagingof foxes was attempted but it was utterly unsuccessful.
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It does not only make thecagingof such birds impossible, but their possession.
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Despite careful control of experimental conditions—caging, feeding, weight and age of the animals used—the results for the five substances in this control test showed marked discrepancies as between different laboratories.
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It is self-indulgence on the part of anyone to talk about making sentences harsher or tougher when we arecagingmen as though they are animals.
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For this reason, some attitude indicators are fitted with acagingmechanism (a device to restore the gyroscope to an erect position).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Gaining greater understanding of the monsters within us, he argues, is part of the process ofcagingand containing them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Therefore, some authors decided to use the term light-activated instead ofcaging.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some attitude indicators can be manually erected once the airplane is in level flight using thecagingmechanism.
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- people-meter
- people mover
- people-mover
- people person
- people-person
- people pleaser
- people-pleaser
- people skills
- people-skills
- people something/somewhere by/with someone
- People's Republic of China
- people-s-republic-of-china
- people sth/somewhere by/with sb
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- people-watcher
- people watching
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