Pronunciation Noun
cave (plural caves)
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- We found a cave on the mountainside where we could take shelter.
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- This wine has been aged in our cave for thirty years.
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- My room was a cozy cave where I could escape from my family.
- (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.
- (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
- (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
- (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
- (obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- the cave of the ear
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- (programming) A code cave.
- French: caverne, grotte
- German: Höhle
- Italian: caverna, grotta, spelonca, antro
- Portuguese: caverna
- Russian: пеще́ра
- Spanish: cueva, gruta
- Italian: incavo
- French: antre
- French: éboulement
cave (caves, present participle caving; past and past participle caved)
- To surrender.
- He caved under pressure.
- To collapse.
- First the braces buckled, then the roof began to cave, then we ran.
- To hollow out or undermine.
- The levee has been severely caved by the river current.
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
- Synonyms: spelunk
- I have caved from Yugoslavia to Kentucky.
- Let's go caving this weekend.
- (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
- The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts.
- (mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
- (obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
- heads up, look out, watch it, see also Thesaurus:heads up
- German: Achtung
Cave
Proper noun
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