English Explanatory Dictionary

cap

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
  2. A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
  3. An academic mortarboard.
  4. A protective cover or seal.
  5. A crown for covering a tooth.
  6. The summit of a mountain, etc.
  7. An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
  8. The top part of a mushroom.
  9. A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
  10. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
  11. A bullet used to shoot someone.
  12. A lie or exaggeration.
verb
  1. To cover or seal with a cap.
  2. To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
  3. To lie over or on top of something.
  4. To surpass or outdo.
  5. To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
  6. To conclude; to make something even more wonderful at the end.
  7. To select a player to play for a specified side.
  8. To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
  9. To lie; to tell a lie.
  10. To select to play for the national team.
  11. To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
  12. To deprive of a cap.
noun
  1. Capitalization.
  2. A capital letter.
  3. A capacitor.
  4. Clipping of capture; a recording or screenshot.
  5. A capsule of a drug.
  6. A capitalist.
  7. A capillary.
  8. A caption.
verb
  1. To convert text to uppercase.
  2. To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
  3. To capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.
  4. To capitulate (cause to capitulate) an opponent.
noun
  1. A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
noun
  1. Initialism of conservation action plan.
  2. Initialism of catabolite activator protein.
  3. Initialism of community-acquired pneumonia.
  4. Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem.
  5. Initialism of combat air patrol.
  6. Initialism of change acceleration process.
  7. Initialism of cold atmospheric plasma.
  8. Initialism of colors and placements.
name
  1. Initialism of Common Agricultural Policy.
  2. Initialism of Civil Air Patrol.
  3. Initialism of Colleague Assistance Program.
name
  1. A nickname for the captain of a team, ship, etc.
  2. A nickname for a man generally.
noun
  1. Clipping of Capricorn.

Pronunciation

/kæp/ [kʰæp] en-us-cap.ogg en-au-cap.ogg

Word forms

cap caps 🧢 capping capped

Etymology

Etymology tree Late Latin [Term?]? Late Latin cappabor. Proto-West Germanic *kappā Proto-West Germanic *kappijā Old English cæppe Middle English cappe English cap Inherited from Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Proto-West Germanic *kappā (“covering, hood, mantle”), from Late Latin cappa, itself from Latin caput. Doublet of cape, chape, and cope.

Synonyms

pop a cap in someone's ass

Antonyms

floor

Related words

lid set one's cap at CAP syndrome Cap-enese

Derived words

cap-apée cap-a-pie capcase capful capless caplike decap goosecap Monmouth Cap nanocap uncapped bust a cap cap and ball mudcap percussion cap pop a cap in someone's ass snap cap elf-cap moss jockey's cap priestcap Turk's cap Turk's cap lily bottle cap bow cap cap flashing cervical cap crown cap dental cap dewcap distributor cap dust cap Dutch cap earcap eyecap filler cap gas cap hubcap jimmy cap lens cap Noddy cap petrol cap pull-off cap root cap screw cap cap and trade caplet capology caponomics interest rate cap level cap salary cap voting cap cap gun cap pistol cradle cap fuddlecap madcap 5′ cap base cap blackccap

Translations

Finnish: nalli Māori: tingara Polish: spłonka Russian: ка́псюль Spanish: fulminante Spanish: detonante Russian: кэп
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