cave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kāv
ipa: /keɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: caves
Etymology: From Middle English cave, borrowed from Old French cave, from Latin cava (“cavity”), from cavus (“hollow”). Cognate with Tocharian B kor (“throat”), Albanian cup (“odd, uneven”), Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “eye of needle, earhole”), Old Armenian սոր (sor, “hole”), Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “empty, barren, zero”). Displaced native Old English sċræf. More at cavum, cavus and cage.
Senses: examples: text: We found a cave on the mountainside where we could take shelter.
text: The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
examples: text: Every boy at one time or another has dug a cave; I suppose because ages and ages ago his ancestors had to live in caves, […]
ref: 1918, Edward Alfred Steiner, Uncle Joe's Lincoln, page 52:
glosses: A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
examples: text: This wine has been aged in our cave for thirty years.
glosses: A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
examples: text: My room was a cozy cave where I could escape from my family.
glosses: A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
examples: text: It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.
topics: caving
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
examples: text: These potential radiation fields or radioactive material levels may be the result of normal operations (ie, radiation in a target cave) […]
ref: 1986, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Radiation Alarms and Access Control Systems, →ISBN, page 45:
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
examples: text: […] the casing can then be placed in the hole without encountering any cave and core drilling in rock can begin.
ref: 1951, James Deans Cumming, Diamond Drill Handbook, page 134:
qualifier: drilling
glosses: Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
examples: text: The "breasts" of marble which unite the opposite lateral walls have been left standing in order to prevent a possible cave of the wall on either side.
ref: 1885, Angelo Heilprin, Town Geology: The Lesson of the Philadelphia Rocks, page 79:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A collapse or cave-in.
examples: text: Then without a word she lay on her back in the bed, her dark blond pubic hair rising about her dark wet cave like dried brush about a hidden spring.
ref: 1976, Chester Himes, My Life of Absurdity, page 59:
glosses: The vagina.
examples: text: Without joining the cave, Hyde had abstained both in December 1956 and May 1957.
ref: 1964, Leon D. Epstein, British Politics in the Suez Crisis, page 125:
topics: government
politics
qualifier: often "Cave"
glosses: A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
examples: text: the cave of the ear
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
examples: text: Once a code cave is created, you can execute it using either thread injection or thread hijacking. […] Additionally, you'd need to make sure that the cave properly cleans the stack.
ref: 2016, Nick Cano, Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A code cave.
Synonyms: earthhole
Derived terms: Aladdin's cave
breathing cave
cave art
cave bear
caveboy
cave cricket
cave disease
cave diver
cave dweller
cavefish
cave flyer
caveful
cavegirl
cave guest
cave hyena
caveless
cavelet
cavelike
cave line
cave lion
caveman
cavemate
cavemouth
Cave of Adullam
cave-painting
cave painting
cave pearl
caveperson
cave physa
cave popcorn
cave salamander
cave swallow
cave swiftlet
cavewoman
Denisova Cave
encave
Fingal's Cave
goon cave
gypsum cave
ice cave
incave
intercave
mom cave
palaeocave
paleocave
salt cave
seacave
show cave
Strinati's cave salamander
Subway Cave
Tasmanian cave spider
Wind Cave
wine cave
woman cave