What's the difference between cage and gage?

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.

Gage


Definition:

  • (n.) A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
  • (n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.
  • (n.) A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
  • (n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
  • (n.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
  • (n.) A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.
  • (v. t.) To measure. See Gauge, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
  • (2) 20 November 2008: Gage said he intended to question every soldier who witnessed the incident , whether or not they were directly responsible.
  • (3) Comprised of four octagonal half strain rings, the strain gage dynamometer measures the three moment load components at the boot.
  • (4) They lack the site that is ordinarily modified by pertussis toxin and their sequences vary from the canonical Gly-Ala-Gly-Glu-Ser (GAGES) amino acid sequence found in most other G protein alpha subunits.
  • (5) Experiments in dogs revealed that mercury-in-silastic strain gage apparatus can successfully be used to measure the biomechanical dynamics of the trachea and subglottis.
  • (6) A highly sensitive M136 gage with 0.5 microA complete deviation current is employed in the scheme, this permitting measurements of high electric resistance of dental hard tissues within a range of 1-200 M omega, painless for patients.
  • (7) Rosette strain gage, electromyography (EMG), and cineradiographic techniques were used to analyze loading patterns and jaw movements during mastication in Macaca fascicularis.
  • (8) The abuse of Mousa and nine other detainees "did not amount to an entrenched culture of violence in the [British] battlegroup – a reference to the rest of British forces in southern Iraq", Gage concludes.
  • (9) Stress wave propagation in a long bone with a progressively increasing defect in the bony cortex, simulating a healing fracture, was studied by recording the outputs of bonded semiconductor strain gages, proximal and distal to the defect.
  • (10) The FEM was validated against a normal strain-gaged turkey ulna, loaded in vivo in an identical fashion to the experimental ulnae.
  • (11) The lack is seen most clearly in the experimental and clinical literature on frontal lobe function, especially in relation to the kinds of changes seen in the Gage case.
  • (12) Furthermore the "head at risk" signs, except the gage-sign, were better to describe by BRI than by conventional x-rays.
  • (13) Inter-rat difference, leg positioning and strain gage placement were evaluated as sources of variability of applied strains.
  • (14) The angular accelerometer of vertebrates, the semi circular canal, is a pressure gage.
  • (15) Remnant gastric motility was studied during the digestive and interdigestive states by chronically implanted strain gage transducer (S.G.T.)
  • (16) Gage's report noted: "He must have seen the shocking condition of the detainees.
  • (17) The overall Berkson-Gage actuarial survival at 3 years, uncorrected for death from intercurrent disease, is 85.8%.
  • (18) Only 14 of those referred to in the Gage report are still in the army.
  • (19) The design and operation of a strain gage signal conditioning amplifier is described.
  • (20) The heart was driven at a steady heart rate through one electrode and very late premature beats were applied at various coupling times at another site through an electrode attached to the miniature strain gage.

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