cap

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English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

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Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Late Latin cappa.

Noun [edit]

cap (plural caps)

  1. A close-fitting head covering either without a brim or with a peak.
    The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
  2. A special head covering to indicate rank, occupation etc.
  3. An academic mortarboard
  4. A protective cover or seal
    He took the cap of the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
  5. A crown for covering a tooth
    He had golden caps on his teeth.
  6. The summit of a mountain etc.
    There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
  7. An artificial upper limit or ceiling
    We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
  8. The top part of a mushroom
  9. (cricket) The cap worn by players as protection from the sun; the cap awarded to a player when first selected to play for a side
  10. A small amount of gunpowder in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun
    Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
  11. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives
    He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
  12. (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
    • 2001: Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon
      Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?
  13. (soccer) An international appearance
    Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
  14. (finance) An upper limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by borrowers to defend against interest rate increases. Opposite of a floor.
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Hyponyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
head covering
head-covering to indicate rank etc.
academic mortarboard
protective cover or seal
crown covering a tooth
summit of a mountain
artificial upper limit
top part of a mushroom
gunpowder charge for a toy gun
small amount of explosive used as detonator
bullet
soccer: international appearance
cricket cap
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Verb [edit]

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped) (transitive)

  1. To cover or seal with a cap
  2. To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
  3. To lie over or on top of something
  4. To surpass or outdo
  5. To set an upper limit on something
    cap wages.
  6. To make something even more wonderful at the end.
    That really capped my day.
  7. (cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side
  8. (slang) To shoot someone
    If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.
  9. (sports) to select to play for the national team.
    Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
  10. (obsolete) To uncover the head respectfully.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Translations [edit]
To cover or seal with a cap
To lie over or on top of something
To surpass or outdo

Etymology 2 [edit]

From capitalization, by shortening

Noun [edit]

cap (plural caps)

  1. (finance) Capitalization.
Derived terms [edit]

Etymology 3 [edit]

From capital, by shortening

Noun [edit]

cap (plural caps)

  1. (informal) An uppercase letter
Translations [edit]
informal: uppercase letter

Verb [edit]

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

  1. (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase

Anagrams [edit]

Aromanian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin caput.

Noun [edit]

cap

  1. head

Catalan [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Latin caput. Compare also French personne (which can mean either “person” or “nobody”).

Noun [edit]

cap m (plural caps)

  1. head
  2. boss, chief, leader
  3. cape (piece of land)

Determiner [edit]

cap m, f (invariable)

  1. no, not any, (usually with no or other negative particle), example no hi ha cap iogurt de maduixa ("there is not any strawberry flavoured yogurt")
  2. any, (in questions and suppositions), example que hi falta __cap__ peça? ("is there __any__ missing piece?")

Pronoun [edit]

cap

  1. none, not one (usually with no or other negative particle), (usually with no or other negative particle), example no n'hi ha cap de maduixa ("there is not any strawberry flavoured one")
  1. any one, , (in questions and suppositions), example que en falta __cap__? ("is there __any one__ missing?")

Preposition [edit]

cap

  1. towards, to

Derived terms [edit]

Etymology 2 [edit]

From caber.

Verb [edit]

cap

  1. Third-person singular present indicative form of cabre.
  2. Second-person singular imperative form of cabre.

French [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

cap m (plural caps)

  1. (geography) cape
  2. (archaic) head
  3. (nautical) heading
  4. (Quebec, geography) cap (summit of a mountain)

Anagrams [edit]

Indonesian [edit]

Noun [edit]

cap

  1. seal
  2. stamp

Lojban [edit]

Rafsi [edit]

cap

  1. rafsi of ckape.

Occitan [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin caput.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

cap m (plural caps)

  1. head (of the body)
  2. cape, headland

Romanian [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Latin *capum, from caput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

cap n (plural capete)

  1. head
Declension [edit]
declension of cap
singular plural
gender n indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative un cap capul niște capete capetele
genitive/dative unui cap capului unor capete capetelor
Derived terms [edit]
Related terms [edit]

Etymology 2 [edit]

From French cap.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

cap n (plural capuri)

  1. cape (headland)
Declension [edit]
declension of cap
singular plural
gender n indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative un cap capul niște capuri capurile
genitive/dative unui cap capului unor capuri capurilor

Slovak [edit]

Noun [edit]

cap m (plural capy, genitive capa)declension pattern chlap for singular, dub for plural

  1. a male goat

Derived terms [edit]

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