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From Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Late Latin cappa.
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cap (plural caps)
- 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.
- A special head covering to indicate rank, occupation etc.
- An academic mortarboard
- A protective cover or seal
- He took the cap of the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
- A crown for covering a tooth
- He had golden caps on his teeth.
- The summit of a mountain etc.
- There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling
- We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
- The top part of a mushroom
- (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
- 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.
- 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.
- (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?
- 2001: Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon
- (soccer) An international appearance
- Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
- (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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- See also Wikisaurus:headgear
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cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped) (transitive)
- To cover or seal with a cap
- To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
- To lie over or on top of something
- To surpass or outdo
- To set an upper limit on something
- cap wages.
- To make something even more wonderful at the end.
- That really capped my day.
- (cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side
- (slang) To shoot someone
- If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.
- (sports) to select to play for the national team.
- Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
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From capitalization, by shortening
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cap (plural caps)
- (finance) Capitalization.
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From capital, by shortening
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cap (plural caps)
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cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)
- (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase
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From Latin caput.
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cap
[edit] Catalan
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From Latin caput. Compare also French personne (which can mean either “person” or “nobody”).
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cap m. (plural caps)
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cap inv.
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cap
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cap
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From caber (q.v.).
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cap
- Third-person singular present indicative form of cabre.
- Second-person singular imperative form of cabre.
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cap m. (plural caps)
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cap
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From Latin caput.
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- IPA: [kap]
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cap m. (plural caps)
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From Latin *capum, from caput.
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- IPA: /kap/
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From French cap.
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- IPA: /kap/
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cap m. (plural capy, genitive capa)declension pattern chlap for singular, dub for plural
- a male goat
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- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English nouns
- en:Cricket
- English slang
- en:Football (Soccer)
- en:Finance
- English verbs
- en:Sports
- English informal terms
- Aromanian terms derived from Latin
- Aromanian nouns
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan determiners
- Catalan pronouns
- Catalan prepositions
- Catalan verb forms
- ca:Anatomy
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- fr:Geography
- French archaic terms
- fr:Nautical
- Quebec French
- Indonesian nouns
- Occitan terms derived from Latin
- Occitan nouns
- Occitan countable nouns
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
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- Romanian terms derived from French
- ro:Anatomy
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- sk:Mammals