cap
noun
- A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
"The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun."
- A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
- An academic mortarboard.
- A protective cover or seal.
"He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne."
- A crown for covering a tooth.
"He had golden caps on his teeth."
- The summit of a mountain, etc.
"There was snow on the cap of the mountain."
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
"We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control."
- The top part of a mushroom.
- (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
"Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy."
- A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
"He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely."
- A bullet used to shoot someone.
- An international appearance.
"Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden."
- The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
- A respectful uncovering of the head.
- The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
"the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate"
- Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- 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.
- A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
- A large size of writing paper.
"flat cap; foolscap; legal cap"
- A lie or exaggeration.
"no cap"
verb
- To cover or seal with a cap.
- To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
- To lie over or on top of something.
- To surpass or outdo.
- To set an upper limit on something.
"cap wages."
- To make something even more wonderful at the end.
"That really capped my day."
- To select a player to play for a specified side.
- To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
"In a school shooting, where some kid caps a bunch of other kids, where did he get the weapon? From a family member, probably their gun cabinet."
- To select to play for the national team.
"Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer."
- To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
- To deprive of a cap.
- To tell a lie.
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