cap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Late Latin [Term?]?
Late Latin cappabor.
Proto-West Germanic *kappā
Proto-West Germanic *kappijā
Old English cæppe
Middle English cappe
English cap
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.
Inflected forms:
form: caps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 🧢
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: caps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: capping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: capped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: capped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: 🧢
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
pos: noun
examples: The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
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!”
gloss: A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: An academic mortarboard.
pos: noun
gloss: A protective cover or seal.
pos: noun
examples: He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
gloss: A crown for covering a tooth.
pos: noun
examples: He had golden caps on his teeth.
gloss: The summit of a mountain, etc.
pos: noun
examples: There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
gloss: An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
pos: noun
examples: We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
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.
gloss: The top part of a mushroom.
pos: noun
gloss: A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
pos: noun
examples: Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
gloss: A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
pos: noun
examples: He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
gloss: A bullet used to shoot someone.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?
gloss: A lie or exaggeration.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: no cap
that’s cap
gloss: A place on a national team; an international appearance.
pos: noun
examples: Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
"By the way, are you by any chance the Malone who is expected to get his Rugby cap for Ireland?" "A reserve, perhaps."
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.
gloss: The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Thou art the Cap / Of all the Fooles aliue.
gloss: A respectful uncovering of the head.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
pos: noun
gloss: The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
pos: noun
examples: the cap of a column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
gloss: Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
pos: noun
gloss: A large size of writing paper.
pos: noun
examples: flat cap; foolscap; legal cap
gloss: Popcorn.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
gloss: To cover or seal with a cap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To lie over or on top of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To surpass or outdo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to cap wages
It recalls the business case for Scotland's reopening of the Borders Railway to Tweedbank, that British Rail closed in 1969. The review says the business case for this was at best borderline, but goes on to say that the case greatly underestimated passenger demand and that the railway Scotland built has capped its capacity.
gloss: To conclude; to make something even more wonderful at the end.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: That really capped my day.
Ms. Yaccarino’s exit caps a tumultuous period at X, which was previously called Twitter and has been remade in Mr. Musk’s image since he bought the platform for $44 billion in 2022.
gloss: To select a player to play for a specified side.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: If he don’t get outta my hood, I’m gonna cap his ass.
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.
gloss: To lie; to tell a lie.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: "How? Didn’t I cap for you, an’ square you with the examinin’ board? Didn’t I stake you to the three hundred dollars?"
It’s over for you capping-ass rappers—get out the game / You can fool the record labels, but not the streets, man
gloss: To select to play for the national team.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
gloss: To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Tom never miſsed a lecture, and capped the proctor with the profoundeſt of bows.
Indeed, as the astonished small boys "capped" him on his way to nine o'clock "absence," he wore an expression of delight bordering on playfulness, which, coming from one of such firm and commanding features, was immensely striking.
gloss: To deprive of a cap.
pos: verb
examples: As if one going to diſtrain upon his own Land or Tenement, where lawfully he may; yet if in doing thereof, he tranſgreſs the leaſt Point of the Common Law, he ſtraight committeth Felony. Or if one, by any other Occaſion, take any thing from another, as Boys uſe ſometimes to cap one another, the ſame is ſtraight Felony.
Related words: lid
set one's cap at
Derived words: cap-apée
cap-a-pie
capcase
capful
capless
caplike
decap
goosecap
Monmouth Cap
nanocap
uncapped
bust a cap
cap and ball
mudcap
percussion cap
pop a cap in someone's ass
snap cap
elf-cap moss
jockey's cap
priestcap
Turk's cap
Turk's cap lily
cap it off
cap off
cap on
cappable
capper
capping plane
no cap
outcap
recap
uncap
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: nalli
lang: Māori
word: tingara
lang: Polish
word: spłonka
lang: Russian
word: ка́псюль
roman: kápsjulʹ
lang: Spanish
word: fulminante
lang: Spanish
word: detonante