Cave (disambiguation)

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The word cave, in addition to its usual meaning of a subterranean chamber (see Cave), has these meanings:

Contents 1 Language 2 People 3 Miscellaneous 4 Places 5 Entertainment

[edit] Language

• Cave is Latin, meaning "Beware!". Occurring in medical terminology.

[edit] People

• Nick Cave is the leader of the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

[edit] Miscellaneous

• A famous allegory by Plato refers to a cave.
• In the Qur'an, Surat al-Kahf is usually translated as "The Cave"
• In Saudi Arabia, the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice is sometime abbreviated to CAVES.

[edit] Places

• Three places in the United States are called Cave, located in Stevens County, Kansas, in Lincoln County, Missouri, and Pendleton County, West Virginia.
• There is a town in New Zealand named Cave.
• Caves is a commune in the Aude département of France.
• Cave is a town and commune in the province of Rome, Italy.
• The Cave is a student run pub in Minnesota.

[edit] Entertainment

• CAVE is the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment for immersive virtual reality simulations.
• Psychology: The Content Analysis of Verbatim Explanation (CAVE) technique is a procedure for extracting statements about life events and attributions from an individual's verbatim passage. Then, the extracted material is rated along the explanatory style dimensions of internality, stability, and globality. [1]
• Cave is a song by the band Muse from the audio CD Showbiz and the Little Nicky soundtrack.
• Cave is the name of a Japanese video game company.
• Cave is an alternate name for a historically famous text-based computer game also known as Adventure and by other names.

• The Cave is an opera written in 1994.
• The Cave is a 2001 novel by José Saramago.
• The Cave is a 2005 horror film.