cage vs paddock

cage

noun
  • The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer. 

  • The catcher's wire mask. 

  • A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth. 

  • In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku. 

  • An automobile. 

  • The passenger compartment of a lift. 

  • The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim. 

  • An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it. 

  • Something that hinders freedom. 

  • The goal. 

  • An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals. 

  • A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve. 

  • A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes. 

verb
  • To immobilize an artificial horizon. 

  • To restrict someone's movement or creativity. 

  • To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage. 

  • 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 registered addresses. 

paddock

noun
  • A field on which a game is played; a playing field. 

  • An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race. 

  • A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals. 

  • A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep. 

  • A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc. 

  • A toad. 

  • An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races. 

  • A frog. 

  • A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items. 

  • A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person. 

verb
  • To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock. 

  • To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit). 

  • To place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock (noun sense 1 or 2.4); hence, to provide (such animals) with pasture. 

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