I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rib cage
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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At the Cotswold Wildlife Park devices are fitted to their rare birds which are housed in large strengthened cages .
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Apart from the sacks of feed and the table and scales, the room held four large cages .
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The Endomorph isn't necessarily large framed but is sturdily built with a large rib cage , waist and hips.
small
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She was not lying down, but rather squatted quietly in the small portable cage into which they had put her.
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More fundamental were his experiments with hawks, in which he fed them meat contained in small cages .
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A member of the Kennel Club, she kept most of the animals in small cages in two bedrooms.
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The bear paces in a too-\#small cage , its snout rubbed raw by the rusted bars.
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Noisily opening the door in front of her and carrying a small portable cage from which Creggan instinctively flinched in fear.
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A small wooden cage was attached to it.
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Consisting of smaller cages that fly around independently within a big circle, it needed a pair.
■ NOUN
bird
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Then she picked up the wicker bird cage and took it to the sill.
door
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The restraining bar is bolted across our laps and the cage door is locked firmly in place.
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Its single elevator had a cage door .
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He was telling her the cage door was open but she was still chained to the bars.
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But when they shoved him into the box and dropped the cage door down, his hands quit taking instruction.
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As she stepped out of the front door , Alexandra felt like a bird finding its cage door opportunely left open.
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The linnet lifted its beak and uttered a few melancholy notes as she opened the cage door .
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The cage door had been opened in five-star style and his birds had flown.
metal
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Now she had to wear this metal cage to stop the bones in her neck crumbling.
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A metal cage encased the weight-lifting area, which consisted of two tiny rooms.
rib
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The Endomorph isn't necessarily large framed but is sturdily built with a large rib cage , waist and hips.
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The cold pressed into his rib cage .
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His rib cage was missing on one side where a large piece of shell casing stuck out from under his breastbone.
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I drive my chin into his rib cage .
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Graham Marshall followed with injuries to his rib cage which according to the internationalist following the game, will possibly terminate his career.
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It gradually tightens itself so as to not allow for expansion of the rib cage .
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Breathe in and out - not too deeply, expanding both the top and bottom of the rib cage Muscle-tensing.
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No bulging rib cages , no collar bones out to here, no sunken eyes or bizarre hipbone bulges.
■ VERB
bat
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Tax tables and residence requirements now are subjects being discussed around batting cages .
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Petersburg batting cage , taking hitting lessons from Walter Hriniak.
keep
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Some of the neighbours knew about my interest in birds, but they thought I kept them in cages .
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Keep your weight in your feet. Keep your rib cage up.
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If I fail, my pet will be kept in a cage for the rest of its life.
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For their own safety the babies were kept in cages but were handled every day by Regina and Monica.
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Broilers are not kept in cages but are reared on deep-litter floors in large houses.
open
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The linnet lifted its beak and uttered a few melancholy notes as she opened the cage door.
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But the animal was bad-tempered, and one night Eugene opened the cage and let him shamble away.
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Bobo tell trainer who open cage big fire?
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Jack opened a cage to gentle one of the birds.
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He put it in his pocket and opened another cage .
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He opened the cage and let it go.
put
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Harte carefully removed his bird and put the cage on the balcony.
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Their clients go to them to be tied up, whipped or put in a cage .
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Deeply afraid that this man was going to put me in a cage .
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So when you have caught one spider, bring it home and put it in the cage .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rattle sb's cage
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Who rattled your cage?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A member of the Kennel Club, she kept most of the animals in small cages in two bedrooms.
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Breathe in and out - not too deeply, expanding both the top and bottom of the rib cage Muscle-tensing.
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Its single elevator had a cage door.
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Simple and quite open, temporary cages.
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The animal crouched ready for an attack and then dashed across its cage floor towards the spot where Leyhausen was standing.
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The cold pressed into his rib cage .
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Throw anything you want into our cage and we will give it serious consideration.
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Trapping is a method which meets with limited success and involves feeding within a specialised wire cage for a period of time.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A male is caged on one side of a barrier separating him from the females in the same cage for 2 days.
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He would never try to cage Mark.
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With the restoration of democracy in 1986, the monster that Marcos had unleashed refused to be caged.