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caps.
1.
capital letters.
2.
(in prescriptions) a capsule.
Origin:
(def. 2) < Latin capsula
(def. 2) < Latin capsula
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Caps
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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.
4.
a headdress denoting rank, occupation, religious order, or the like: a nurse's cap.
5.
EXPANDmortarboard (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.
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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.
COLLAPSEChiefly 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.
EXPANDto put a maximum limit on (prices, wages, spending, etc.).
27.
COLLAPSEBritish Sports. to select (a player) for a representative team.
verb (used without object)
Idioms28.
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
before 1000; Middle English cappe, Old English cæppe < Late Latin cappa hooded cloak, cap; compare cape
Related forms
cap·less, adjective
verb (used with object)
3.
to write or print in capital letters, or make an initial letter a capital; capitalize.
Origin:
1895–1900; by shortening
1895–1900; by shortening
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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
EXPANDends 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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Medical Dictionary
CAP abbr.
catabolite gene activator protein
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
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