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cap

1  [kap] noun, verb, capped, cap⋅ping.
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–noun
1. a close-fitting covering for the head, usually of soft supple material and having no visor or brim.
2. a brimless head covering with a visor, as a baseball cap.
3. mobcap.
4. a headdress denoting rank, occupation, religious order, or the like: a nurse's cap.
5. mortarboard (def. 2).
6. Mathematics. the symbol ∩, used to indicate the intersection of two sets. Compare intersection (def. 3a).
7. anything resembling or suggestive of a covering for the head in shape, use, or position: a cap on a bottle.
8. summit; top; acme.
9. 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.
–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.).
27. British Sports. to select (a player) for a representative team.
–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:
bef. 1000; ME cappe, OE cæppe < LL cappa hooded cloak, cap; cf. cape

Related forms:
capless, adjective
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cap 1   (kāp)   
n.  

  1. A usually soft and close-fitting head covering, either having no brim or with a visor.

    1. A special head covering worn to indicate rank, occupation, or membership in a particular group: a cardinal's cap; a sailor's cap.

    2. An academic mortarboard. Used especially in the phrase cap and gown.

    3. A protective cover or seal, especially one that closes off an end or a tip: a bottle cap; a 35-millimeter lens cap.

    4. A crown for covering or sealing a tooth.

    5. A tread for a worn pneumatic tire.

    6. A fitted covering used to seal a well or large pipe.

    7. Chiefly Southern U.S. See eye.

    8. The top part, or pileus, of a mushroom.

    9. A calyptra.

    10. A percussion cap.

    11. A small explosive charge enclosed in paper for use in a toy gun.

    1. A protective cover or seal, especially one that closes off an end or a tip: a bottle cap; a 35-millimeter lens cap.

    2. A crown for covering or sealing a tooth.

    3. A tread for a worn pneumatic tire.

    4. A fitted covering used to seal a well or large pipe.

    5. Chiefly Southern U.S. See eye.

    6. The top part, or pileus, of a mushroom.

    7. A calyptra.

    8. A percussion cap.

    9. A small explosive charge enclosed in paper for use in a toy gun.

  4. A summit or top, as of a mountain.

  5. An upper limit; a ceiling: placed a cap on mortgage rates.

  6. Architecture The capital of a column.

  7. Botany

    1. The top part, or pileus, of a mushroom.

    2. A calyptra.

    3. A percussion cap.

    4. A small explosive charge enclosed in paper for use in a toy gun.

    1. A percussion cap.

    2. A small explosive charge enclosed in paper for use in a toy gun.

  9. Any of several sizes of writing paper, such as foolscap.

  10. Sports An appearance by a player in an international soccer game, traditionally rewarded with a hat.

tr.v.   capped, cap·ping, caps

  1. To cover, protect, or seal with a cap.

  2. To award a special cap to as a sign of rank or achievement: capped the new women nurses at graduation.

  3. To lie over or on top of; cover: hills capped with snow.

  4. To apply the finishing touch to; complete: cap a meal with dessert.

  5. To follow with something better; surpass or outdo: capped his last trick with a disappearing act that brought the audience to its feet.

  6. To set an upper limit on: decided to cap cost-of-living increases.


[Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Late Latin cappa.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
cap

  1. n.
    a capsule of a drug. : Do you want it in caps or elixir?
  2. tv.
    to exceed something; to surpass something. : I know I can't cap that. That's just super!
  3. tv.
    to make a capsule. : I must have capped 300 placebos today.
  4. tv.
    to kill someone. : The kid capped his friend for dissing him.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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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 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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

cap

  1. An upper limit on the interest rate to be paid on a floating-rate note.

  2. See capitalization.


Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: cap
Function: abbreviation
1 capacity
2 capsule
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

CAP abbr.
catabolite gene activator protein

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Idioms & Phrases

cap in hand

see under hat in hand.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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