Pronunciations (6)
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/kæp/
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- Australia
- Canada
- Received-Pronunciation
- US
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[kʰæp]
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- Australia
- Canada
- Received-Pronunciation
- US
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/kap/
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- British
- Northern-England
- Scotland
- Southern
- Standard
- Wales
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[kʰap]
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- British
- Northern-England
- Scotland
- Southern
- Standard
- Wales
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/kɛp/
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- New-Zealand
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[kʰɛp]
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- New-Zealand
Noun
A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
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The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
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That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white, “Sorrow and sickness on thee alight” That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small, “No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!”
A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
An academic mortarboard.
A protective cover or seal.
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He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
A crown for covering a tooth.
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He had golden caps on his teeth.
The summit of a mountain, etc.
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There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
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We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
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The G7 countries have agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil in an attempt to stem the flow of funds into the Kremlin’s war coffers. […] The level of the cap is still being discussed.
The top part of a mushroom.
A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
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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.
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He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
A bullet used to shoot someone.
Usage- Slang
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Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?
A lie or exaggeration.
Usage- Slang
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no cap
that’s cap
A place on a national team; an international appearance.
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Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
"By the way, are you by any chance the Malone who is expected to get his Rugby cap for Ireland?" "A reserve, perhaps."
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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.
The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
Usage- Obsolete
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Thou art the Cap / Of all the Fooles aliue.
A respectful uncovering of the head.
Usage- Obsolete
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He that will give a cap and make a leg, in thanks for a favour he never received, deserveth rather to be blamed for want of wit, than to be praised for store of manners.
The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
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the cap of a column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
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.
A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
A large size of writing paper.
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flat cap; foolscap; legal cap
Popcorn.
Usage- Appalachia
Verb
To cover or seal with a cap.
Usage- Transitive
To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
Usage- Transitive
To lie over or on top of something.
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To lie over or on top of something. To paint over someone else's piece or tag.
Usage- broadly
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To surpass or outdo.
Usage- Transitive
To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
Usage- Transitive
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to cap wages
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It recalls the business case for Scotland's reopening of the Borders Railway to Tweedbank, that British Rail closed in 1969. The review says the business case for this was at best borderline, but goes on to say that the case greatly underestimated passenger demand and that the railway Scotland built has capped its capacity.
To conclude; to make something even more wonderful at the end.
Usage- Figurative
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That really capped my day.
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Ms. Yaccarino’s exit caps a tumultuous period at X, which was previously called Twitter and has been remade in Mr. Musk’s image since he bought the platform for $44 billion in 2022.
To select a player to play for a specified side.
Usage- Transitive
To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
Usage- Slang
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If he don’t get outta my hood, I’m gonna cap his ass.
In a school shooting, where some kid caps a bunch of other kids, where did he get the weapon? From a family member, probably their gun cabinet.
To lie; to tell a lie.
Usage- Intransitive
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"How? Didn’t I cap for you, an’ square you with the examinin’ board? Didn’t I stake you to the three hundred dollars?"
It’s over for you capping-ass rappers—get out the game / You can fool the record labels, but not the streets, man
To select to play for the national team.
Usage- Transitive
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Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
Usage- Obsolete
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Tom never miſsed a lecture, and capped the proctor with the profoundeſt of bows.
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Indeed, as the astonished small boys "capped" him on his way to nine o'clock "absence," he wore an expression of delight bordering on playfulness, which, coming from one of such firm and commanding features, was immensely striking.
To deprive of a cap.
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As if one going to diſtrain upon his own Land or Tenement, where lawfully he may; yet if in doing thereof, he tranſgreſs the leaſt Point of the Common Law, he ſtraight committeth Felony. Or if one, by any other Occaſion, take any thing from another, as Boys uſe ſometimes to cap one another, the ſame is ſtraight Felony.
Noun
Capitalization.
A capital letter.
Usage- Informal
A capacitor.
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parasitic caps
I had to replace the caps in that thing to get it to work again.
A capsule of a drug.
Usage- Slang
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Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.
A capitalist.
Usage- Colloquial
A capillary.
A caption.
A cappuccino.
Usage- Informal
Verb
To convert text to uppercase.
Usage- Informal
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To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
Usage- Transitive
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I've capped in VCD format, so will eventually post it to abme (I've since found out that it's a bit OT for this group)
Please tell me someone capped it!!!!
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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.
To capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.
Usage- Transitive
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Call your friends and bring a gun / The Halo revolution's on / Capping flags and arming bombs / Yes, we don't blink until we're done
To capitulate (cause to capitulate) an opponent.
Usage- Intransitive
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Noun
A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
Usage- Obsolete
Noun
a tight-fitting headdress
a top (as for a bottle)
a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive
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something serving as a cover or protection
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a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
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a protective covering that is part of a plant
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an upper limit on what is allowed
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he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him
there was a roof on salaries
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they established a cap for prices
(dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
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tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown
the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
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Verb
lie at the top of
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Snow capped the mountains
restrict the number or amount of
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We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club