Mathematics. the symbol ∩, used to indicate the intersection of two sets. Compare intersection(def. 3a).
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anything resembling or suggestive of a covering for the head in shape, use, or position: a cap on a bottle.
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summit; top; acme.
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a maximum limit, as one set by law or agreement on prices, wages, spending, etc., during a certain period of time; ceiling: a 9 percent cap on pay increases for this year.
Common Agricultural Policy: a coordinated system established in 1960 by the European Economic Community for stabilizing prices of farm products of its member countries.
Either of a pair of hollow structures located in bony sockets of the skull, functioning together or independently, each having a lens capable of focusing incident light on an internal photosensitive retina from which nerve impulses are sent to the brain; the vertebrate organ of vision.
The external, visible portion of this organ together with its associated structures, especially the eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows.
The pigmented iris of this organ.
A way of regarding something; a point of view: To my eye, the decorations are excellent.
Attention: The lavish window display immediately got my eye.
Watchful attention or supervision: always under his boss's eye; kept an eye on her valuables.
An opening in a needle.
The aperture of a camera.
A loop, as of metal, rope, or thread.
A circular marking on a peacock's feather.
Chiefly Southern U.S. The round flat cover over the hole on the top of a wood-burning stove. Also called regionally cap1, griddle.
A bud on a twig or tuber: the eye of a potato.
The often differently colored center of the corolla of some flowers.
Meteorology The circular area of relative calm at the center of a cyclone.
The center or focal point of attention or action: right in the eye of the controversy.
The faculty of seeing; vision.
The ability to make intellectual or aesthetic judgments: has a good eye for understated fashion.
A way of regarding something; a point of view: To my eye, the decorations are excellent.
Attention: The lavish window display immediately got my eye.
Watchful attention or supervision: always under his boss's eye; kept an eye on her valuables.
An opening in a needle.
The aperture of a camera.
A loop, as of metal, rope, or thread.
A circular marking on a peacock's feather.
Chiefly Southern U.S. The round flat cover over the hole on the top of a wood-burning stove. Also called regionally cap1, griddle.
A bud on a twig or tuber: the eye of a potato.
The often differently colored center of the corolla of some flowers.
Meteorology The circular area of relative calm at the center of a cyclone.
The center or focal point of attention or action: right in the eye of the controversy.
Something suggestive of the vertebrate organ of vision, especially:
An opening in a needle.
The aperture of a camera.
A loop, as of metal, rope, or thread.
A circular marking on a peacock's feather.
Chiefly Southern U.S. The round flat cover over the hole on the top of a wood-burning stove. Also called regionally cap1, griddle.
A bud on a twig or tuber: the eye of a potato.
The often differently colored center of the corolla of some flowers.
Meteorology The circular area of relative calm at the center of a cyclone.
The center or focal point of attention or action: right in the eye of the controversy.
A photosensitive device, such as a photoelectric cell.
Botany
A bud on a twig or tuber: the eye of a potato.
The often differently colored center of the corolla of some flowers.
Meteorology The circular area of relative calm at the center of a cyclone.
The center or focal point of attention or action: right in the eye of the controversy.
Meteorology The circular area of relative calm at the center of a cyclone.
The center or focal point of attention or action: right in the eye of the controversy.
Informal A detective, especially a private investigator.
A choice center cut of meat, as of beef: eye of the round.
tr.v.
eyed, eye·ing or ey·ing (ī'ĭng), eyes
To look at: eyed the passing crowd with indifference.
To watch closely: eyed the shark's movements.
To supply with an eye.
[Middle English, from Old English ēge, ēage; see okw- in Indo-European roots.]
O.E. cæppe "hood, head-covering," from L.L. cappa "a cape, hooded cloak," possibly shortened from capitulare "headdress," from L. caput "head" (see head). Meaning "women's head covering" is c.1225 in Eng.; extended to men 1382. Of cap-like coverings on the ends of anything (e.g. hub-cap) from c.1440. Meaning "contraceptive device" is first recorded 1916. "Cap-shaped piece of copper lined with gunpowder and used to ignite a gun" is c.1826; extended to paper version used in toy pistols, 1872. The L.L. word apparently originally meant "a woman's head-covering," but the sense transferred to "hood of a cloak," then to "cloak" itself, though the various senses co-existed. O.E. took in two forms of the L.L. word, one meaning "head-covering," the other "ecclesiastical dress" (see cape (1)). In most Romance languages, a dim. of L.L. cappa has become the usual word for "head-covering" (cf. Fr. chapeau).
a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive [syn: detonator]
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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 [syn: hood]
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an upper limit on what is allowed; "he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him"; "there was a roof on salaries"; "they established a cap for prices" [syn: ceiling]
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(dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth; "tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown" [syn: crown]
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the upper part of a column that supports the entablature [syn: capital]
verb
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lie at the top of; "Snow capped the mountains"
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restrict the number or amount of; "We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club"
Cap\, n. [OE. cappe, AS. c[ae]ppe, cap, cape, hood, fr. LL, cappa, capa; perhaps of Iberian origin, as Isidorus of Seville mentions it first: "Capa, quia quasi totum capiat hominem; it. capitis ornamentum." See 3d Cape, and cf. 1st Cope.]1. A covering for the head; esp. (a) One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys; (b) One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants; (c) One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal. 2. The top, or uppermost part; the chief. Thou art the cap of all the fools alive. --Shak. 3. A respectful uncovering of the head. He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks. --Fuller. 4. (Zo["o]l.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck. 5. Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use; as: (a) (Arch.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate. (b) Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament. (c) (Naut.) 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. (d) A percussion cap. See under Percussion. (e) (Mech.) The removable cover of a journal box. (f) (Geom.) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface. 6. A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap. Cap of a cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; -- now called an apron. Cap in hand, obsequiously; submissively. Cap of liberty. See Liberty cap, under Liberty. Cap of maintenance, a cap of state carried before the kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities. Cap money, money collected in a cap for the huntsman at the death of the fox. Cap paper. (a) A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolscap, and legal cap. (b) A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities. Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material. Flat cap, cap See Foolscap. Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier. Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge." To set one's cap, to make a fool of one. (Obs.) --Chaucer. To set one's cap for, to try to win the favor of a man with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]
Cap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Capped; p. pr. & vb. n. Capping.]1. To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun. The bones next the joint are capped with a smooth cartilaginous substance. --Derham. 2. To deprive of cap. [Obs.] --Spenser. 3. To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity. 4. To salute by removing the cap. [Slang. Eng.] Tom . . . capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows. --Thackeray. 5. To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs. --Shak. Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him to the end of the chapter. --Dryden. Note: In capping verses, when one quotes a verse another must cap it by quoting one beginning with the last letter of the first letter, or with the first letter of the last word, or ending with a rhyming word, or by applying any other arbitrary rule may be agreed upon.
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