cap

• IPA^(key): /kæp/, [kʰæp]

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• Hyphenation: cap
• Rhymes: -æp

From Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Late Latin cappa.

cap (plural caps)

1. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.

   The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.

2. A special hat to indicate rank, occupation etc.
3. An academic mortarboard
4. A protective cover or seal

   He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.

5. A crown for covering a tooth

   He had golden caps on his teeth.

6. The summit of a mountain etc.

   There was snow on the cap of the mountain.

7. An artificial upper limit or ceiling

   We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.

8. The top part of a mushroom
9. (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.

10. 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.

11. (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
    • 2001: Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon

      Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?

12. (soccer) An international appearance

    Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.

    • 2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London)‎:

      Overall, though, England’s injury-diminished side coped well on the night when Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Jordan Pickford and Tammy Abraham all won their first caps.

13. (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
    • Shakespeare

      Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.

14. (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
    • Fuller

      he that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks

15. (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
16. (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.

    the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate

17. Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
18. (nautical) 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.
19. (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
20. A large size of writing paper.

    flat cap; foolscap; legal cap

• (artificial upper limit): floor

• See also Thesaurus:headgear

• (head covering): baseball cap, bathing cap, cunt cap, dunsel cap, swim cap, swimming cap
• (protective cover or seal): crown cap, filler cap
• (artificial upper limit): interest rate cap
• (small amount of explosive used as detonator): percussion cap, pop a cap in someone's ass
• (something covering the top or end of a thing): ice cap, kneecap
• (head): fuddlecap, madcap
• (toy): cap gun, cap pistol

• lid
• set one's cap at

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

1. (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap
2. (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
3. (transitive) To lie over or on top of something
4. (transitive) To surpass or outdo
5. (transitive) To set an upper limit on something

   cap wages.

6. (transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.

   That really capped my day.

7. (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side
8. (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.

   If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.

9. (transitive, sports) to select to play for the national team.

   Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.

10. (transitive, obsolete) To uncover the head respectfully.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

    • Thackeray

      Tom […] capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows.

11. To deprive of a cap.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

From capitalization, by shortening.

cap (plural caps)

1. (finance) Capitalization.

• market cap

From capital, by shortening.

cap (plural caps)

1. (informal) An uppercase letter.

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

1. (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.

From capacitor, by shortening.

cap (plural caps)

1. (electronics) capacitor

   Parasitic caps.

Shortening of capture.

cap (plural caps)

1. (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.
   • 1996 December 9, Fox [username], “Anyone has a cap of yesterday's irc-convention on undernet ?”, in alt.paranet.ufo, Usenet‎:

   • 1998 September 26, Mr Hanky [username] <meister_hanky@hotmail.com>, “req: does anyone have a cap of Gabby's behind from "Forget Me Not"”, in alt.tv.xena, Usenet‎, retrieved August 7, 2016:

     If you have a cap of Gabby's bare butt from the "forget me not" episode please post or mail it...

   • 1998 April 27, Johan [username], “Jennifer on Letterman”, in alt.fan.jen-aniston, Usenet‎, retrieved August 7, 2016:

     Here's a cap of Jennifer from her latest Letterman appearance […]

   • 2000 March 4, RichieH [username], “Please somebody get a cap of Faye from steps at the Brits!!!!!!!!”, in alt.tv.shaggable.babes, Usenet‎:

     Please be assured that when I do get around to capping the Brits, there will NOT be one single cap of that slutty bitch, her whorishness has dropped to even lower levels than before.

   Anyone have a cap of the games last night?

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

1. (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
   • 2001 December 3, Methos [username], alt.fan.televisionx, Usenet‎:

     I've capped in VCD format, so will eventually post it to abme (I've since found out that it's a bit OT for this group)

   • 2002 June 11, test . com Ground Hog [username], alt.luser.recovery, Usenet‎:

     Please tell me someone capped it!!!!

   • 2003 February 18, jacuk [username], alt.fan.pornstar.darrian, Usenet‎:

     If I had a method of capping from video tapes there's a movie that I can no longer remember the name of which has a single scene with Racquel and Derrick as a newly married couple having sex under the lustful eyes of Joey Silvera.

Scots [Term?], probably from Old English copp (“a cup”).

cap (plural caps)

1. (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.

• ACP, APC, CPA, PAC, PCA, Pac.

From Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput. Plural form capiti from Latin capita. Compare Romanian cap.

cap n (plural capiti/capite)

1. head

• cãpic
• cãpos

• capã

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkap/
• Rhymes: -ap

From Old Occitan cap, from Vulgar Latin *capum (“head, chief”), from Latin caput (“head, etc.”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Compare also French personne (which can mean either "person" or "nobody").

cap m (plural caps)

1. (anatomy) head
2. boss, chief, leader
3. cape (piece of land)
4. (heraldry) chief

cap (invariable)

1. no, not any (usually with no or other negative particle)

   No hi ha cap iogurt de maduixa.

   There is no strawberry yogurt.

   • 2019 August 21, Rosa M. Bravo, “La demanda de tractament per deixar la cocaïna creix”, in El Punt Avui‎:

     A més, 3.500 persones han passat per les sales de consum ateses per professionals, on cap de les 214 sobredosis ha estat mortal.

     Additionally, 3,500 people have passed through the [drug] use rooms tended by professionals, where none of the 214 overdoses has been fatal.

2. any (in questions and suppositions)

   Que hi falta cap peça?

   Is there any missing piece?

cap

1. none, not one (usually with no or other negative particle), example no n'hi ha cap de maduixa ("there is not any strawberry flavoured one")
2. anyone, (in questions and suppositions), example que en falta cap? ("is there anyone missing?")

cap

1. towards, to

• cap a
• capdamunt
• capdavall
• capdavant

• acabar

See the etymology of the main entry.

cap

1. third-person singular present indicative form of cabre
2. second-person singular imperative form of cabre

• “cap” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cap” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cap” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cap” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Occitan cap, from Latin caput. Doublet of chef.

• IPA^(key): /kap/

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cap m (plural caps)

1. (geography) cape
2. (archaic) head
3. (nautical) heading
4. (Quebec, geography) cap (summit of a mountain)

• “cap” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• PAC

Ultimately from Indo-Aryan. Compare Hindi छाप (chāp), Gujarati છાપ (chāp), Bengali ছাপ (chap), all meaning stamp, seal.

cap

1. seal
2. stamp

cap

1. Alternative form of cappe

Borrowed from Old Occitan cap.

cap m (plural caps)

1. head
   • 1369-1400, Jean Froissart, Chroniques

     Armez de pié en cap

     Armed from head to toe

From Old Occitan cap, from Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput.

• IPA^(key): /kap/

cap m (plural caps)

1. head (of the body)
2. cape, headland

• cap d'estat

• acabar

From Romanian țap.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sap/

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cap m anim

1. billy-goat
2. buck (male of an antlered animal)

• capić

• cap in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Plural form capete from Latin capita.

• IPA^(key): /kap/

cap n (plural capete)

1. head

• căpetenie
• căpos
• căpușă

Borrowed from French cap.

• IPA^(key): /kap/

cap n (plural capuri)

1. cape (headland)

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sap/

cap m (genitive singular capa, nominative plural capy, genitive plural capov) , declension pattern chlap for singular, dub for plural

1. a male goat

• capí

• koza f

• cap in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk