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cap
1[ kap ]
noun
- a close-fitting covering for the head, usually of soft supple material and having no visor or brim.
- a brimless head covering with a visor, as a baseball cap.
- a mobcap.
- a headdress denoting rank, occupation, religious order, or the like:
a nurse's cap.
- Mathematics. the symbol ∩, used to indicate the intersection of two sets. Compare intersection ( def 3a ).
- anything resembling or suggestive of a covering for the head in shape, use, or position:
a cap on a bottle.
- a maximum limit, as one set by law or agreement on prices, wages, spending, etc., during a certain period of time; ceiling:
a 9 percent cap on pay increases for this year.
- Mycology. the pileus of a mushroom.
- Botany. calyptra ( def 1 ).
- Mining. a short, horizontal beam at the top of a prop for supporting part of a roof.
- British Sports. a selection for a representative team, usually for a national squad.
- a noise-making device for toy pistols, made of a small quantity of explosive wrapped in paper or other thin material.
- Nautical. a fitting of metal placed over the head of a spar, as a mast or bowsprit, and having a collar for securing an additional spar.
- a new tread applied to a worn pneumatic tire.
- Architecture. a capital.
- Carpentry. a metal plate placed over the iron of a plane to break the shavings as they rise.
- Fox Hunting. capping fee.
- Chiefly British Slang. a contraceptive diaphragm.
verb (used with object)
- to provide or cover with or as if with a cap.
- to complete.
to cap one joke with another.
- to serve as a cap, covering, or top to; overlie.
- to put a maximum limit on (prices, wages, spending, etc.).
- British Sports. to select (a player) for a representative team.
verb (used without object)
- Fox Hunting. to hunt with a hunting club of which one is not a member, on payment of a capping fee.
cap.
2abbreviation for
- (in prescriptions) let the patient take.
cap
3[ kap ]
noun
- Usually caps. uppercase:
Please set the underlined in caps.
verb (used with object)
- to write or print in capital letters, or make an initial letter a capital; capitalize.
cap.
4abbreviation for
- chapter.
cap
5[ kap ]
noun
- a capsule, especially of a narcotic drug.
cap.
6abbreviation for
- capacity.
- capital.
- capitalize.
- capitalized.
- capital letter.
- foolscap.
CAP
7abbreviation for
- Common Agricultural Policy: a coordinated system established in 1960 by the European Economic Community for stabilizing prices of farm products of its member countries.
- computer-aided publishing.
- Stock Exchange. convertible adjustable preferred (stock).
CAP
1abbreviation for
- Common Agricultural Policy: (in the EU) the system for supporting farm incomes by maintaining agricultural prices at agreed levels
cap
2/ kæp /
noun
- a covering for the head, esp a small close-fitting one made of cloth or knitted
- such a covering serving to identify the wearer's rank, occupation, etc
a nurse's cap
- something that protects or covers, esp a small lid or cover
lens cap
- an uppermost surface or part
the cap of a wave
- See percussion cap
- a small amount of explosive enclosed in paper and used in a toy gun
- sport
- an emblematic hat or beret given to someone chosen for a representative team
he has won three England caps
- a player chosen for such a team
- the upper part of a pedestal in a classical order
- the roof of a windmill, sometimes in the form of a dome
- botany the pileus of a mushroom or toadstool
- hunting
- money contributed to the funds of a hunt by a follower who is neither a subscriber nor a farmer, in return for a day's hunting
- a collection taken at a meet of hounds, esp for a charity
- anatomy
- the natural enamel covering a tooth
- an artificial protective covering for a tooth
- See Dutch capSee Dutch cap
- an upper financial limit
- a mortarboard when worn with a gown at an academic ceremony (esp in the phrase cap and gown )
- meteorol
- the cloud covering the peak of a mountain
- the transient top of detached clouds above an increasing cumulus
- cap in handcap in hand humbly, as when asking a favour
- if the cap fitsif the cap fits the allusion or criticism seems to be appropriate to a particular person
- set one's cap forset one's cap forset one's cap at (of a woman) to be determined to win as a husband or lover
verb
- to cover, as with a cap
snow capped the mountain tops
- informal.to outdo; excel
to cap an anecdote
your story caps them all
- to cap it allto cap it all to provide the finishing touch
we had sun, surf, cheap wine, and to cap it all a free car
- sport to select (a player) for a representative team
he was capped 30 times by Scotland
- to seal off (an oil or gas well)
- to impose an upper limit on the level of increase of (a tax, such as the council tax)
rate-capping
- hunting to ask (hunt followers) for a cap
- to award a degree to
cap.
3abbreviation for
- capital
- capitalize
- capitalization
- capital letter
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Derived Forms
- ˈcapper, noun
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Other Words From
- capless adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Idioms and Phrases
- cap in hand, humbly; in supplication:
He went to his father cap in hand and begged his forgiveness.
- set one's cap for, to pursue as being a potential mate.
More idioms and phrases containing cap
- feather in one's cap
- hat (cap) in hand
- if the shoe (cap) fits, wear it
- put on one's thinking cap
- set one's cap for
- hat
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Example Sentences
Each CAP, also known as an “orbit,” consists on four aircraft.
In fact, Clark fell back first from her blows, losing his cap, tie, and badge in the melee.
The cap devices on thousands of identical hats glinted in the late morning sun along with the shields worn by each of the cops.
Lay the butterflied pork loin on the cutting board with the fat cap facing down.
Available at Amazon Vince Camuto Moto Baseball Cap, $34 Baseball caps may be useful on the road, but they scream “tourist!”
At once cover the mouth of the tube with a filter-paper cap moistened with saturated aqueous solution of silver nitrate (1:1).
With horror she had heard her brother addressed by a disreputable costermonger in a mangy fur cap, as "Old pal."
"It's like that out here on the Riviera," said Jane, shaking her head so gloomily that the ruffled cap wobbled.
But his head was too hot to wear a thinking cap, and no story would come at his half-hearted call.
The more enthusiastic among the audience, male and female, also sport the red cap of liberty.
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