What's the difference between cage and sage?

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.

Sage


Definition:

  • (n.) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.
  • (n.) The sagebrush.
  • (superl.) Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.
  • (superl.) Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.
  • (superl.) Grave; serious; solemn.
  • (n.) A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
  • (2) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
  • (3) "The economy has lost X billion pounds", pronounces some sage.
  • (4) Jeremy Corbyn is the main reason Iā€™m not sure about the whole thing anymore,ā€ said Sage, a freelance illustrator.
  • (5) Sage Kotsenburg loves snowboarding for all its unexpected surprises.
  • (6) Eleven women patients completed the SAGE on two occasions, three months apart.
  • (7) The Shakespearian critic and scholar, Nicholas Brooke, who had taught Sage at Durham, was also there, as was the writer, Jonathan Raban.
  • (8) When this happens, it is tempting to nod sagely and feign comprehension.
  • (9) Reconstructions with 53 organism-antimicrobial combinations were performed at 0, 4, 8, and 24 h in which the FLORA-STAT system was compared with two boric acid-based systems (Urine C&S Transport Kit [Becton Dickinson VACUTAINER Systems, Rutherford, N.J.]; Sage Urine Collection Kit for Culture [Sage Products, Inc., Cary, Ill.]) and untreated urine.
  • (10) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
  • (11) Hobsbawm, being a sage member of the Communist Party, warned against their utopianism, but I took to them like a fish to water.
  • (12) The geranyl and linalyl precursors were shown to be mutually competitive substrates (inhibitors) of the relevant cyclization enzymes isolated from Salvia officinalis (sage) and Tanacetum vulgare (tansy) by the mixed substrate analysis method, demonstrating that isomerization and cyclization take place at the same active site.
  • (13) Sage Gateshead, 4ā€“7 July Troilus and Cressida Multimedia magician Elizabeth LeCompte from New York's the Wooster Group takes on this most problematic of problem comedies.
  • (14) 800g veal shoulder, cut into 4cm dice 1 tbsp plain flour Salt and black pepper 30g unsalted butter 60ml olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped 200ml dry white wine 8 large sage leaves Shaved skin of 1 lemon, plus 3 tbsp lemon juice 1 550g head puntarelle (or 2 heads white chicory, cut widthways into 3cm-long segments) 1 small celeriac, peeled and chopped into 2cm dice (500g net weight) 200g pancetta, cut into 1cm dice 20g capers For the salad 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed 1 anchovy fillet, finely chopped 2 tsp red-wine vinegar 2 tbsp olive oil 1 white chicory, cut in half lengthways and then into long, 0.5cm thick wedges (or the rest of the puntarelle, if using) 80g rocket Toss the veal in flour seasoned with a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper, until evenly coated, then tap off any excess.
  • (15) If an Orthodox teacher or social worker were to follows the sages' ruling, they would be breaking the law.
  • (16) At its meeting in July 1988, the Scientific Advisory Group of Experts of the Programme for Vaccine Development (SAGE) concluded that it was appropriate to discuss the general topic of live vectors and proceeded to arrange a meeting to discuss the present position and to prepare a report on the following key issues: requirements for safety and efficacy; immunological factors which may influence efficacy; medical constraints on use.
  • (17) As panic spread, and Britain's own financial institutions came under massive pressure, the man who had for 12 consecutive months been warning of just this sort of crisis turned overnight from lonely maverick into sage with the crystal ball.
  • (18) So I'm treating you, in this situation, like a sage, like you have all the answers.
  • (19) As with so much of her work, Sage's engagement with women's writing combined passion with intelligence.
  • (20) All these ideas occur in Sage's dense, but not especially long, first paragraph.

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