What's the difference between cage and cane?

Cage


Definition:

  • (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
  • (n.) A place of confinement for malefactors
  • (n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
  • (n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
  • (n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
  • (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
  • (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
  • (n.) The catcher's wire mask.
  • (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
  • (2) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
  • (3) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
  • (4) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
  • (5) Each diet was fed to five or six individually caged hens for 42 days.
  • (6) During this period, the microbial flora of the isolator was unchanged, and the time required to clean the cages was reduced by 50%.
  • (7) The designs of mechanical prostheses have evolved since the early caged-ball prostheses.
  • (8) In addition, various tissue cages and the use of skin blisters has been a popular means for testing antibiotic penetration into extra-cellular fluid.
  • (9) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
  • (10) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
  • (11) Also the spread of the strain in the cage was examined.
  • (12) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
  • (13) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
  • (14) To test the hypothesis that during unsupported arm exercise (UAE) some of the inspiratory muscles of the rib cage partake in upper torso and arm positioning and thereby decrease their contribution to ventilation, we studied 11 subjects to measure pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures, heart rate, respiratory frequency, O2 uptake (VO2), and tidal volume (VT) during symptom-limited UAE.
  • (15) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
  • (16) However, airborne transmission to rabbits in adjacent cages did not occur.
  • (17) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
  • (18) In fish tests, rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were caged at the discharge site and simultaneously at a reference area.
  • (19) Five week old female albino mice were grouped two, three, four and five per cage.
  • (20) A different pattern was observed in the open cage test, where both neuroleptic groups showed significant increases in vacuous OMs during drug administration which rapidly became attenuated upon drug withdrawal.

Cane


Definition:

  • (n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
  • (n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
  • (n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
  • (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
  • (n.) A lance or dart made of cane.
  • (n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.
  • (v. t.) To beat with a cane.
  • (v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
  • (2) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
  • (3) Keeping the dietary fats (coconut safflower seed oil) at 20% level, diets containing (a) startch (54%) + cane sugar (0%), (b) starch (44%) + cane sugar 10%), (c) starch (10%) + cane sugar (44%) and (d) only cane sugar (54%) were administered to rats for 8 weeks.
  • (4) Fifty-five percent of the patients can walk well with one cane, 31% with two canes, and 14% require assistance to walk.
  • (5) All patients were functionally independent and able to ambulate using a straight cane.
  • (6) Britain had just joined what was then the common market and the kind of cane sugar the company processed was being challenged by French-grown sugar beet.
  • (7) All patients were able to walk with or without a cane.
  • (8) The bonus earnings of cane cutters who were found to be infected with S. mansoni were compared, retrospectively, with earnings of uninfected cane cutters during the years 1968-69.
  • (9) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
  • (10) I know you love me and I love you,” said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
  • (11) Nyingi, who was detained for about nine years , beaten unconscious and bears the marks from leg manacles, whipping and caning, said: "For me … I just wanted the truth to be out.
  • (12) At the very top is a panoramic view as far as the southern Sri Lankan coast and a tiny cafe selling magnificent short eats, tea and jaggery (cane sugar).
  • (13) The patient required 19 days of prosthetic training and was discharged independent in ambulation and transfers using two straight canes.
  • (14) After operation the patients did not complain about pain and they walked with the aid of a cane.
  • (15) Twenty isolates of N2-fixing spirilla were isolated from the rhizosphere of maize and sugar cane grown in Egyptian and Belgian soils.
  • (16) Due to the dramatic increase in international oil prices, the ethanol production by fermentation is presently becoming an attractive and feasible project for many countries Argentina has implemented an experimental national program of ethanol use as fuel and the standard procedure of Melle-Boinot is currently employed in sugar cane molasses fermentation.
  • (17) Noting that an unchecked epidemic would undermine the country's development, Reid praised the awareness efforts instituted by the interim government that cane in to power February 1991, following a military coup.
  • (18) Intracutaneous injections of three glucan contaminants of invert sugar solutions and crude cane sugar into human skin produced localised wheals and erythema reactions.
  • (19) Many pictures in the book – of families cutting cane, of men shinning up coconut trees – replicate the rural sights I see when I visit.
  • (20) Protoplasts of susceptible cane are rendered insensitivity to the effects of the toxin in a medium deficient in K+ and Mg2+.

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