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noun

a close-fitting covering for the head, usually of soft supple material and having no visor or brim.

a brimless head covering with a visor, as a baseball cap.

mobcap.

a headdress denoting rank, occupation, religious order, or the like: a nurse's cap.

mortarboard (def. 2).

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Mathematics. the symbol ∩, used to indicate the intersection of two sets. Compare intersection (def. 3a).

anything resembling or suggestive of a covering for the head in shape, use, or position: a cap on a bottle.

summit; top; acme.

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.

10.

Mycology. the pileus of a mushroom.

11.

Botany. calyptra (def. 1).

12.

Mining. a short, horizontal beam at the top of a prop for supporting part of a roof.

13.

a percussion cap.

14.

British Sports. a selection for a representative team, usually for a national squad.

15.

a noise-making device for toy pistols, made of a small quantity of explosive wrapped in paper or other thin material.

16.

Nautical. a fitting of metal placed over the head of a spar, as a mast or bowsprit, and having a collar for securing an additional spar.

17.

a new tread applied to a worn pneumatic tire.

18.

Architecture. a capital.

19.

Carpentry. a metal plate placed over the iron of a plane to break the shavings as they rise.

20.

Fox Hunting. capping fee.

21.

Chiefly British Slang. a contraceptive diaphragm.

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verb (used with object)

22.

to provide or cover with or as if with a cap.

23.

to complete.

24.

follow up with something as good or better; surpass; outdo: to cap one joke with another.

25.

to serve as a cap, covering, or top to; overlie.

26.

to put a maximum limit on (prices, wages, spending, etc.).

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27.

British Sports. to select (a player) for a representative team.

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Cap is always a great word to know.

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the smallest number that is a common multiple of a given set of numbers

the letter used as the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, or the ratio itself: 3.141592+

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verb (used without object)

28.

Fox Hunting. to hunt with a hunting club of which one is not a member, on payment of a capping fee.

Idioms

29.

cap in hand, humbly; in supplication: He went to his father cap in hand and begged his forgiveness.

30.

set one's cap for, to pursue as being a potential mate.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English cappe, Old English cæppe < Late Latin cappa hooded cloak, cap; compare cape

Related forms

cap·less, adjective

Example Sentences

The cut was part of a strategy to place a containment cap over the oil well that has been gushing for more than six weeks.

Keep the cap on the share of applicants colleges must verify.

The cap on tax expenditures would help correct that.

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The cut was part of a strategy to place a containment cap over the oil well that has been gushing for more than six weeks.

Keep the cap on the share of applicants colleges must verify.

The cap on tax expenditures would help correct that.

Northern mesatus is large and pale, with a brown cap that is tinged rufous.

Each time a cell replicates, part of the cap is lost and so eventually the cell can no longer divide.

He unscrews the cap and lets a few drops leak onto the stone, where they fizz and bubble.

Single nuts are more or less enclosed in a cuplike cap covered with many closely set scales.

Paterson is including controversial proposals to cap local property taxes and allow the sale of wine in grocery stores in an.

The report suggests that removing the cap would place unnecessary hurdles before needy students.

Europe is planning a tighter cap and fewer free permits.

The picture marked the first time astronauts were able to photograph the south polar ice cap.

All the cap and trade approach does is postpone the huge rate increases that will be imposed down the line.

The hand relinquishing balance to adjust a cap in the rain.

Its concrete cap and faux stone columns echo the materials used for the porch.

Worse, they usually leave the plastic cap dangling.

No longer is the black on black of the traditional cap and gown the default.

The result was a tight cap on the price, regardless of demand.

For example, it can be easy for an astronaut to drop a camera lens cap.

Opponents of proposals to cap carbon emissions argue that such measures would be a drag on the economy.

It is physically impossible for bubble curls to survive the stress of a flying cap.

The third has two braids emerging from her black cap.

Thus, you eliminate the post-photo dance where you pat your pockets one by one until you find the cap again.

Many elite colleges have rolled out new financial-aid policies that eliminate or cap loans for financially needy students.

It's harder to lose the cap if it is tied to a camera.

In the last month much has been discussed as how to cap the well.

Strand oceanfront walkway cruise past a bikini-clad roller-skater with a ponytail poking out of her baseball cap.

And third, you always know whether or not the cap is on before you hold the lens up to your eye.

Cap enrollment and tuition and stop redistributing fees to pay for students who cannot afford it.

The device scans brain waves through sensors in a cap.

Cap and trade will help all farmers bring more clean renewable energy to the grid with the help of emissions trading.

If you look closely, you can see that the cap at the bottom has been chewed through to form a little escape hatch.

Taking a lens cap off to snap a photo and then replacing it afterwards is such a chore.

Cap the number of campus parking places at the current level.

Read about the permanent cap placed on the oil well.

At this point, you can screw the cap back on the bottle.

Punching down the cap is straightforward enough, but how many times a day do you do.

Using your free hand, remove the cap from the rear of the shot.

Vent if you need to at your meetings, but do it constructively and keep a cap on it.

Remove the bottle cap and place the neck of the funnel into the mouth of the bottle.

To win support for a bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions, lobbyists are.

Put a cap on the bottle, place the capper over it, and push down on the capper's arms to seal.

It takes forever to fill the old-school guns with the t-shaped tab that retains the cap.

Television series budgets are far leaner, but you'll probably get a show cap or jacket.

Or they want indirect taxes through their cap and trade scheme.

The bottle has an empty weight of four ounces including the cap.

Or consider a cap on salaries at the same age point-or even younger-to address salaries spiraling from mere longevity.

Most prominent of all the markings are the white spots that cap the poles.

Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called.

The total cap on each fish type is adjusted yearly by the government according to how the well the species is doing.

There are also plastic parts: a cap, a bottom cap and a top retaining ring.

It adds benefit only to those who get a cut from cap and trade fees.

But once the cap is screwed back on, you can flip it around and come out fighting.

Why they keep perpetuating this myth is anyone's guess, the answer depending on how tight one's tinfoil cap is.

Ice cap moving front scrapped the front area of the ice shell flow eliminating the fossils, interpretered as extinctions.

Partly because the telomeres-a sort of protective cap on the ends of chromosomes-become progressively shorter.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a capital letter.

Usually, caps. uppercase: Please set the underlined in caps.

verb (used with object)

to write or print in capital letters, or make an initial letter a capital; capitalize.

Origin:
1895–1900; by shortening

noun Slang.

a capsule, especially of a narcotic drug.

Origin:
by shortening of capsule

Civil Air Patrol.

Common Agricultural Policy: a coordinated system established in 1960 by the European Economic community for stabilizing prices of farm products of its member countries.

computer-aided publishing.

Stock Exchange. convertible adjustable preferred (stock).

Also, C.A.P. (for defs. 1, 2, 4).

capacity.

(in prescriptions) let the patient take. Origin:
< Latin capiat

capital.

capitalize.

capitalized.

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capital letter.

chapter. Origin:
< Latin capitulum, caput

foolscap.

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noun

Caspar W(illard) (“Cap”), born 1917, U.S. government official: Secretary of Defense since 1981.

Ja·ro·mir

[yahr-uh-meer] , 1896–1967, Czech composer, in the U.S.

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World English Dictionary

cap (kæp)

—n
1.	a covering for the head, esp a small close-fitting one made of cloth or knitted
2.	such a covering serving to identify the wearer's rank, occupation, etc: a nurse's cap
3.	something that protects or covers, esp a small lid or cover: lens cap
4.	an uppermost surface or part: the cap of a wave
5.	a. See percussion cap
	b. a small amount of explosive enclosed in paper and used in a toy gun
6.	chiefly (Brit) sport
	a. an emblematic hat or beret given to someone chosen for a representative team: he has won three England caps
	b. a player chosen for such a team
7.	the upper part of a pedestal in a classical order
8.	the roof of a windmill, sometimes in the form of a dome
9.	botany the pileus of a mushroom or toadstool
10.	hunting
	a. money contributed to the funds of a hunt by a follower who is neither a subscriber nor a farmer, in return for a day's hunting
	b. a collection taken at a meet of hounds, esp for a charity
11.	anatomy
	a. the natural enamel covering a tooth
	b. an artificial protective covering for a tooth
12.	See Dutch cap
13.	an upper financial limit
14.	a mortarboard when worn with a gown at an academic ceremony (esp in the phrase cap and gown)
15.	meteorol
	a. the cloud covering the peak of a mountain
	b. the transient top of detached clouds above an increasing cumulus
16.	cap in hand humbly, as when asking a favour
17.	(Brit) if the cap fits the allusion or criticism seems to be appropriate to a particular person
18.	set one's cap for, set one's cap at (of a woman) to be determined to win as a husband or lover

—vb , caps, capping, capped
19.	to cover, as with a cap: snow capped the mountain tops
20.	informal to outdo; excel: your story caps them all; to cap an anecdote
21.	to cap it all to provide the finishing touch: we had sun, surf, cheap wine, and to cap it all a free car
22.	(Brit) sport to select (a player) for a representative team: he was capped 30 times by Scotland
23.	to seal off (an oil or gas well)
24.	to impose an upper limit on the level of increase of (a tax, such as the council tax): rate-capping
25.	hunting to ask (hunt followers) for a cap
26.	chiefly (Scot), (NZ) to award a degree to

[Old English cæppe, from Late Latin cappa hood, perhaps from Latin caput head]

'capper

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CAP

—*abbreviation for*
	Common Agricultural Policy: (in the EU) the system for supporting farm incomes by maintaining agricultural prices at agreed levels

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Main Entry:	cap
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	See mushroom cap

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Word Origin & History

cap

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 early 13c. in English; extended to men late 14c. Of cap-like coverings on the

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ends of anything (e.g. hub-cap) from mid-15c. 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).

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

cap (kāp)
n.
A protective cover or seal, especially one that closes off an end or a tip and that resembles a close-fitting head covering.

CAP abbr.
catabolite gene activator protein

Slang Dictionary

cap definition

n.
a capsule of a drug. : Do you want it in caps or elixir?
tv.
to exceed something; to surpass something. : I know I can't cap that. That's just super!
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to make a capsule. : I must have capped 300 placebos today.
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to kill someone. : The kid capped his friend for dissing him.

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