cap
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Late Latin cappa.
Noun
cap (plural caps)
- A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
- Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:headgear
- The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
- A special hat to indicate rank, occupation etc.
- An academic mortarboard.
- A protective cover or seal.
- He took the cap off 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.
- Antonym: floor
- We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
- The top part of a mushroom
- (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive 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.
- 2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London)[1]:
- Overall, though, England’s injury-diminished side coped well on the night when Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Jordan Pickford and Tammy Abraham all won their first caps.
- (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
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- Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.
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- (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
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- he that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks
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- (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
- the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
- Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- (nautical) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
- (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
- A large size of writing paper.
- flat cap; foolscap; legal cap
- (African-American Vernacular) A lie or exaggeration
Derived terms
- (head covering): baseball cap, bathing cap, cloth cap, cunt cap, dunsel cap, swim cap, swimming cap
- (protective cover or seal): crown cap, filler cap
- (artificial upper limit): interest rate cap
- (small amount of explosive used as detonator): percussion cap, pop a cap in someone's ass
- (something covering the top or end of a thing): ice cap, kneecap
- (head): fuddlecap, madcap
- (toy): cap gun, cap pistol
- no cap
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Verb
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- (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap
- (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
- (transitive) To lie over or on top of something
- (transitive) To surpass or outdo
- (transitive) To set an upper limit on something
- cap wages.
- (transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.
- That really capped my day.
- (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side
- (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
- If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.
- (transitive, sports) to select to play for the national team.
- Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
- (transitive, obsolete) To uncover the head respectfully.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
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- Tom […] capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows.
- To deprive of a cap.
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- (African-American Vernacular) To tell a lie
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Etymology 2
From capitalization, by shortening.
Noun
cap (plural caps)
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From capital, by shortening.
Noun
cap (plural caps)
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- (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.
Etymology 4
From capacitor, by shortening.
Noun
cap (plural caps)
- (electronics) capacitor
- Parasitic caps.
Etymology 5
Shortening of capture.
Noun
cap (plural caps)
- (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.
- 2000 March 4, RichieH [username], “Please somebody get a cap of Faye from steps at the Brits!!!!!!!!”, in alt.tv.shaggable.babes[5] (Usenet):
- Please be assured that when I do get around to capping the Brits, there will NOT be one single cap of that slutty bitch, her whorishness has dropped to even lower levels than before.
- Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
Verb
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- (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
- 2003 February 18, jacuk [username], alt.fan.pornstar.darrian[8] (Usenet):
- If I had a method of capping from video tapes there's a movie that I can no longer remember the name of which has a single scene with Racquel and Derrick as a newly married couple having sex under the lustful eyes of Joey Silvera.
Etymology 6
Scots [Term?], probably from Old English copp (“a cup”).
Noun
cap (plural caps)
- (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
Anagrams
Aromanian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput. Plural form capiti from Latin capita. Compare Romanian cap.
Noun
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 147: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Vulgar Latin *capum (“head, chief”), from Latin caput (“head, etc.”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Compare also French personne (which can mean either "person" or "nobody").
Noun
cap m (plural caps)
- (anatomy) head
- boss, chief, leader
- cap d'estat ― head of state
- cape (piece of land)
- (heraldry) chief
- end
- cap de setamana ― weekend
Derived terms
Determiner
cap (invariable)
- no, not any (usually with no or other negative particle)
- No hi ha cap iogurt de maduixa.
- There is no strawberry yogurt.
- 2019 August 21, Rosa M. Bravo, “La demanda de tractament per deixar la cocaïna creix”, in El Punt Avui[9]:
- A més, 3.500 persones han passat per les sales de consum ateses per professionals, on cap de les 214 sobredosis ha estat mortal.
- Additionally, 3,500 people have passed through the [drug] use rooms tended by professionals, where none of the 214 overdoses has been fatal.
- any (in questions and suppositions)
- Que hi falta cap peça?
- Is there any missing piece?
Pronoun
cap
- none, not one (usually with no or other negative particle), example no n'hi ha cap de maduixa ("there is not any strawberry flavoured one")
- anyone, (in questions and suppositions), example que en falta cap? ("is there anyone missing?")
Preposition
cap
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Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
cap
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Further reading
- “cap” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cap”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “cap” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cap” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Occitan cap, from Latin caput. Doublet of chef.
Pronunciation
Noun
cap m (plural caps)
- (geography) cape
- (archaic) head
- (nautical) heading
- (figuratively) goal, direction, course
- Synonym: cible
- cap stratégique ― strategic course
- (Quebec, geography) cap (summit of a mountain)
Further reading
- “cap”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Indo-Aryan. Compare Hindi छाप (chāp), Gujarati છાપ (chāp), Bengali ছাপ (chap), all meaning stamp, seal.
Noun
cap (first-person possessive capku, second-person possessive capmu, third-person possessive capnya)
- seal, stamp.
- record.
- Synonym: rekaman
- printing.
- trademark.
- Synonyms: merk dagang, etiket
- (figurative) characteristic.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
cap (first-person possessive capku, second-person possessive capmu, third-person possessive capnya)
Further reading
- “cap” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English
Noun
cap
- Alternative form of cappe
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan cap.
Noun
cap m (plural caps)
- head
- 1369-1400, Jean Froissart, Chroniques
- Armez de pié en cap
- Armed from head to toe
- Armez de pié en cap
- 1369-1400, Jean Froissart, Chroniques
Descendants
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan cap, from Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput.
Pronunciation
Noun
cap m (plural caps)
- head (the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs)
- head (leader, chief, mastermind)
- cape, headland
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Polish
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Noun
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- billy-goat
- buck (male of an antlered animal)
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Verb
cap
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Romanian
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Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Plural form capete from Latin capita.
Pronunciation
Noun
cap n (plural capete)
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Pronunciation
Noun
cap n (plural capuri)
Declension
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
cap m (genitive singular capa, nominative plural capy, genitive plural capov), declension pattern chlap for singular, dub for plural
- a male goat
Declension
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See also
- koza f
Further reading
- “cap”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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