cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæp/
ipa: [kʰæp]
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: caps
form: 🧢
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Proto-West Germanic *kappā (“covering, hood, mantle”), from Late Latin cappa, itself from Latin caput. Doublet of cape, chape, and cope.
Senses: examples: text: The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
text: That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white,
“Sorrow and sickness on thee alight”
That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small,
“No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!”
ref: 1847 September 11, William J. Thoms, “The Folk-lore of Shakespeare”, in The Athenaeum, London, page 958, column 1:
glosses: A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
glosses: A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
glosses: An academic mortarboard.
examples: text: He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
glosses: A protective cover or seal.
examples: text: He had golden caps on his teeth.
glosses: A crown for covering a tooth.
examples: text: There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
glosses: The summit of a mountain, etc.
examples: text: We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
text: The G7 countries have agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil in an attempt to stem the flow of funds into the Kremlin’s war coffers. […] The level of the cap is still being discussed.
ref: 2022 September 2, Alex Lawson, “G7 countries agree plan to impose price cap on Russian oil”, in The Guardian:
antonyms: floor
glosses: An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
glosses: The top part of a mushroom.
examples: text: Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
qualifier: toy
glosses: A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
examples: text: He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
glosses: A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
examples: text: Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?
ref: 2001, Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon:
glosses: A bullet used to shoot someone.
examples: text: no cap
text: that’s cap
glosses: A lie or exaggeration.
examples: text: Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
text: "By the way, are you by any chance the Malone who is expected to get his Rugby cap for Ireland?" "A reserve, perhaps."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London):
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A place on a national team; an international appearance.
examples: text: Thou art the Cap / Of all the Fooles aliue.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 93, column 2:
glosses: The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
examples: text: He that will give a cap and make a leg, in thanks for a favour he never received, deserveth rather to be blamed for want of wit, than to be praised for store of manners.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year MDCXLVIII, volume 1, London: Thomas Tegg and Son, published 1837, page 9:
glosses: A respectful uncovering of the head.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
examples: text: the cap of a column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
topics: architecture
glosses: The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
glosses: Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: 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.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
examples: text: flat cap; foolscap; legal cap
glosses: A large size of writing paper.
glosses: Popcorn.
Derived terms: sense: general terms
word: cap-apée
sense: general terms
word: cap-a-pie
sense: general terms
word: capcase
sense: general terms
word: capful
sense: general terms
word: capless
sense: general terms
word: caplike
sense: general terms
word: decap
sense: general terms
word: goosecap
sense: general terms
english: hamlet
translation: hamlet
word: Monmouth Cap
sense: general terms
word: nanocap
sense: general terms
word: uncapped
sense: head covering
word: Ascot cap
sense: head covering
word: baggy green cap
sense: head covering
word: bald cap
sense: head covering
word: ballcap
sense: head covering
word: baseball cap
sense: head covering
word: bathing cap
sense: head covering
word: black cap
sense: head covering
word: bouffant cap
sense: head covering
word: Breton cap
sense: head covering
word: bump cap
sense: head covering
word: cap and bells
sense: head covering
word: cap and gown
sense: head covering
word: cap badge
sense: head covering
word: cap-flap
sense: head covering
word: cap in hand
sense: head covering
word: capmaker
sense: head covering
word: capmaking
sense: head covering
word: cap money
sense: head covering
word: cap of liberty
sense: head covering
word: cap of maintenance
sense: head covering
word: cap over the windmill
sense: head covering
word: capstring
sense: head covering
word: China cap
sense: head covering
word: cloth cap
sense: head covering
word: cold cap
sense: head covering
word: combination cap
sense: head covering
word: coon-skin cap
sense: head covering
word: cornercap
sense: head covering
word: cunt cap
sense: head covering
word: Davy Crockett cap
sense: head covering
word: deerslayer cap
sense: head covering
word: deerstalker cap
sense: head covering
word: dunce cap
sense: head covering
word: dunsel cap
sense: head covering
word: Dutch cap
sense: head covering
word: elector's cap
sense: head covering
word: face cap
sense: head covering
word: Fanny Murray cap
sense: head covering
word: feather in one's cap
sense: head covering
word: field cap
sense: head covering
word: fitted cap
sense: head covering
word: flat cap
sense: head covering
word: fool's cap
sense: head covering
word: forage cap
sense: head covering
word: fore-and-aft cap
sense: head covering
word: friar's cap
sense: head covering
word: furcap
sense: head covering
word: Gandhi cap
sense: head covering
word: gimme cap
sense: head covering
word: Glengarry cap
sense: head covering
word: half cap
sense: head covering
word: hand-in-cap
sense: head covering
word: huffcap
sense: head covering
word: hunting cap
sense: head covering
word: if the cap fits
sense: head covering
word: Juliet cap
sense: head covering
word: knit cap
sense: head covering
word: liberty cap
sense: head covering
word: longshoreman's cap
sense: head covering
word: lounging cap
sense: head covering
word: Mickey Mouse cap
sense: head covering
word: mob cap
sense: head covering
word: monkey cap
sense: head covering
word: Monmouth cap
sense: head covering
word: muffin cap
sense: head covering
word: newsboy cap
sense: head covering
word: nightcap
sense: head covering
word: nose cap
sense: head covering
word: offcap
sense: head covering
word: overseas cap
sense: head covering
word: patrol cap
sense: head covering
word: Phrygian cap
sense: head covering
word: priestcap
sense: head covering
word: propeller cap
sense: head covering
word: rally cap
sense: head covering
word: rastacap
sense: head covering
word: ratting cap
sense: head covering
word: redcap
sense: head covering
word: Scotch cap
sense: head covering
word: scullcap
sense: head covering
word: sea cap
sense: head covering
word: service cap
sense: head covering
word: shingle cap
sense: head covering
word: shower cap
sense: head covering
word: side cap
sense: head covering
word: ski cap
sense: head covering
word: skullcap
sense: head covering
word: skycap
sense: head covering
word: smoking cap
sense: head covering
word: Snoopy cap
sense: head covering
word: stocking cap
sense: head covering
word: suncap
sense: head covering
word: swimcap
sense: head covering
word: swim cap
sense: head covering
word: swimming cap
sense: head covering
word: thinking cap
sense: head covering
word: throw one's cap over the windmill
sense: head covering
word: trencher cap
sense: head covering
word: watch cap
sense: head covering
word: watermelon cap
sense: head covering
word: whitecap
sense: head covering
word: whitecapper
sense: head covering
word: widow's cap
sense: head covering
word: wig cap
sense: head covering
word: wishing cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: bottle cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: bow cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: cap flashing
sense: protective cover or seal
word: cervical cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: crown cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: dental cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: dewcap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: distributor cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: dust cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: Dutch cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: earcap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: eyecap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: filler cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: gas cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: hubcap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: jimmy cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: lens cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: Noddy cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: petrol cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: pull-off cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: root cap
sense: protective cover or seal
word: screw cap
sense: artificial upper limit
word: cap and trade
sense: artificial upper limit
word: caplet
sense: artificial upper limit
word: capology
sense: artificial upper limit
word: caponomics
sense: artificial upper limit
word: interest rate cap
sense: artificial upper limit
word: level cap
sense: artificial upper limit
word: salary cap
sense: artificial upper limit
word: voting cap
sense: small amount of explosive used as detonator
word: bust a cap
sense: small amount of explosive used as detonator
word: cap and ball
sense: small amount of explosive used as detonator
word: mudcap
sense: small amount of explosive used as detonator
word: percussion cap
sense: small amount of explosive used as detonator
word: pop a cap in someone's ass
sense: small amount of explosive used as detonator
word: snap cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: 5′ cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: base cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: blackccap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: blasting cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: bluecap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: cap carbonate
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: cap cloud
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: cap nut
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: cap product
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: caprock
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: cap screw
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: capsheaf
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: cap sheet
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: cap sleeve
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: cap snatching
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: capsquare
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: cap stealing
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: capstone
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: cross-cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: die cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: end cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: endcap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: fuel cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: haycap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: ice cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: ironcaps spider orchid
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: keycap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: kneecap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: legal cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: nose cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: polar cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: ribeye cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: rump cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: screwcap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: sirloin cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: snowcap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: spherical cap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: toecap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: turncap
sense: something covering the top or end of a thing
word: windcap
sense: head
word: cradle cap
sense: head
word: fuddlecap
sense: head
word: madcap
sense: toy
word: cap gun
sense: toy
word: cap pistol
sense: names of mushrooms
word: candy cap
sense: names of mushrooms
word: death cap
sense: names of mushrooms
word: inkcap
sense: names of mushrooms
word: inky cap
sense: names of mushrooms
word: milk-cap
sense: names of mushrooms
word: panther cap
sense: names of mushrooms
word: powder cap
sense: names of mushrooms
word: saffron milk cap
sense: names of mushrooms
word: ugly milk-cap
sense: names of mushrooms
word: waxcap
sense: names of mushrooms
word: waxy cap
sense: names of mushrooms
word: webcap
sense: other species
word: elf-cap moss
sense: other species
word: jockey's cap
sense: other species
word: priestcap
sense: other species
word: Turk's cap
sense: other species
word: Turk's cap lily
Related terms: lid
set one's cap at