'CAP' definitions:
Definition of 'cap'
(from WordNet)
noun
A tight-fitting headdress
noun
A top (as for a bottle)
noun
A mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive [syn: detonator, detonating device, cap]
noun
Something serving as a cover or protection
noun
A fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom [syn: cap, pileus]
noun
A protective covering that is part of a plant [syn: hood, cap]
noun
An upper limit on what is allowed; "he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him"; "there was a roof on salaries"; "they established a cap for prices" [syn: ceiling, roof, cap]
noun
(dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth; "tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown" [syn: crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown, cap]
noun
verb
Lie at the top of; "Snow capped the mountains" [syn: cap, crest]
verb
Restrict the number or amount of; "We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club"
Definition of 'Cap'
From: GCIDE
- Cap \Cap\ (k[a^]p), n. [OE. cappe, AS. c[ae]ppe, cap, cape, hood, fr. LL, cappa, capa; perhaps of Iberian origin, as Isidorus of Seville mentions it first: "Capa, quia quasi totum capiat hominem; it. capitis ornamentum." See 3d Cape, and cf. 1st Cope.]
- 1. A covering for the head; esp. (a) One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys; (b) One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants; (c) One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The top, or uppermost part; the chief. [1913 Webster]
- Thou art the cap of all the fools alive. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A respectful uncovering of the head. [1913 Webster]
- He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Zool.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use; as: (a) (Arch.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate. (b) Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament. (c) (Naut.) 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. (d) A percussion cap. See under Percussion. (e) (Mech.) The removable cover of a journal box. (f) (Geom.) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap. [1913 Webster]
- Cap of a cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; -- now called an apron.
- Cap in hand, obsequiously; submissively.
- Cap of liberty. See Liberty cap, under Liberty.
- Cap of maintenance, a cap of state carried before the kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities.
- Cap money, money collected in a cap for the huntsman at the death of the fox.
- Cap paper. (a) A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolscap, and legal cap. (b) A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities.
- Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material.
- Flat cap, cap See Foolscap.
- Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier.
- Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge."
- To set one's cap, to make a fool of one. (Obs.) --Chaucer.
- To set one's cap for, to try to win the favor of a man with a view to marriage. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'cap'
From: GCIDE
- Regulation \Reg`u*la"tion\ (-l?"sh?n), n.
- 1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. [1913 Webster]
- The temper and regulation of our own minds. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school. [1913 Webster]
- Regulation sword, cap, uniform, etc. (Mil.), a sword, cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by the official regulations. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Law; rule; method; principle; order; precept. See Law. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cap'
From: GCIDE
- Cap \Cap\, v. i. To uncover the head respectfully. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cap'
From: GCIDE
- Cap \Cap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Capped; p. pr. & vb. n. Capping.]
- 1. To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun. [1913 Webster]
- The bones next the joint are capped with a smooth cartilaginous substance. --Derham. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To deprive of cap. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To salute by removing the cap. [Slang. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- Tom . . . capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him to the end of the chapter. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In capping verses, when one quotes a verse another must cap it by quoting one beginning with the last letter of the first letter, or with the first letter of the last word, or ending with a rhyming word, or by applying any other arbitrary rule may be agreed upon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cap'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acme,
- apex,
- apogee,
- ascender,
- astrakhan,
- back,
- balaclava helmet,
- Balmoral,
- baseball cap,
- bastard type,
- beany,
- beard,
- bearskin,
- beaver,
- befog,
- belly,
- beret,
- best,
- better,
- bevel,
- bewilder,
- black letter,
- blanket,
- blasting cap,
- boater,
- body,
- bonnet,
- boot,
- bowler,
- bracket capital,
- brass hat,
- breech,
- brow,
- busby,
- button up,
- calash,
- campaign hat,
- cap,
- capital,
- capote,
- capsheaf,
- caput,
- carry to completion,
- case,
- castor,
- ceil,
- chapeau,
- chapeau bras,
- clean up,
- climax,
- cloak,
- cloche,
- close out,
- close up,
- cloud nine,
- coat,
- cob,
- cock-and-pinch,
- coif,
- complete,
- conclude,
- confound,
- confuse,
- consummate,
- cork,
- cornice,
- counter,
- cover,
- coverchief,
- coxcomb,
- crest,
- crown,
- culmen,
- culminate,
- culmination,
- derby,
- descender,
- detonating powder,
- detonator,
- dome,
- Dutch cap,
- edge,
- electric detonator,
- em,
- en,
- end,
- exceed,
- excel,
- exploder,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- face,
- fantail,
- fat-faced type,
- feet,
- fez,
- finalize,
- finish,
- finish off,
- finish up,
- font,
- frock,
- frost,
- fulminating mercury,
- fuse,
- get done,
- get it over,
- get through,
- get through with,
- give in kind,
- go one better,
- gown,
- groove,
- handkerchief,
- hard hat,
- hat,
- head,
- headcloth,
- headdress,
- headgear,
- heading,
- headpiece,
- headtire,
- headwear,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- height,
- helmet,
- high noon,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- homburg,
- hood,
- ice,
- improve on,
- italic,
- jacket,
- jockey cap,
- kaffiyeh,
- kelly,
- kepi,
- kerchief,
- leghorn,
- letter,
- lex talionis,
- lid,
- ligature,
- limit,
- logotype,
- lower case,
- majuscule,
- mantle,
- match,
- maximum,
- mercury fulminate,
- meridian,
- millinery,
- minuscule,
- mobcap,
- mop up,
- mortarboard,
- mountaintop,
- ne plus ultra,
- nick,
- nightcap,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- opera hat,
- operculum,
- outshine,
- outstrip,
- outtop,
- outweigh,
- overarch,
- overbalance,
- overbear,
- overcast,
- overcome,
- overlay,
- overpass,
- overseas cap,
- overspread,
- overtop,
- Panama,
- Panama hat,
- pass,
- peak,
- peaked cap,
- percussion cap,
- perfect,
- perplex,
- pi,
- pica,
- picture hat,
- pillbox,
- pinhead,
- pinnacle,
- pitch,
- pith hat,
- pith helmet,
- plug,
- point,
- poke,
- pole,
- porkpie,
- pose,
- predominate,
- preponderate,
- prevail,
- primacord,
- primer,
- priming,
- print,
- puggree,
- repay in kind,
- return the compliment,
- return the like,
- ridge,
- roman,
- roof,
- roof in,
- round out,
- rumal,
- sailor,
- Salvation Army bonnet,
- sans serif,
- scraper,
- script,
- seventh heaven,
- shank,
- shirt,
- shoe,
- shoulder,
- shovel hat,
- silk hat,
- skullcap,
- sky,
- slouch hat,
- small cap,
- small capital,
- snood,
- sock,
- sombrero,
- spire,
- squib,
- stamp,
- stem,
- Stetson,
- stocking,
- stopper,
- stovepipe,
- stumble,
- summit,
- sun hat,
- sun helmet,
- sunbonnet,
- sundown,
- surmount,
- surpass,
- tam,
- ten-gallon hat,
- terminate,
- tin hat,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- top,
- top hat,
- top off,
- top out,
- topee,
- topknot,
- topper,
- tower above,
- tower over,
- transcend,
- trilby,
- trump,
- turban,
- type,
- type body,
- type class,
- type lice,
- typecase,
- typeface,
- typefounders,
- typefoundry,
- tyrolean hat,
- upmost,
- upper case,
- upper extremity,
- uppermost,
- utmost,
- vertex,
- very top,
- wide-awake,
- wimple,
- wind up,
- wind-cutter,
- wrap up,
- yarmulka,
- zenith
Acronyms for 'cap'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Computer Aided Planning (CIM)
- Computer Aided Publishing
- Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance
- Cross Account Protection (Google)
- Component Approval Process
- Communications-electronics Accommodation Program
- Common Alerting Protocol (XML, OASIS)
- Carrierless Amplitude Phase [modulation] (ADSL, AT&T)
- CAMEL Application Part (SS7, CAMEL)
Words containing 'CAP'
- Capful,
- Capped,
- Capping,
- cap off,
- A capful of wind,
- A feather in the cap,
- Bishop's cap,
- Cap in hand,
- Cap money,
- Cap of a cannon,
- Cap of liberty,
- Cap of maintenance,
- Cap paper,
- Cap rock,
- Capping plane,
- Chimney cap,
- Flat cap,
- Fly cap,
- Fool's cap,
- Forage cap,
- Foraging cap,
- Friar's cap,
- Goose cap,
- Graduated cap,
- Half cap,
- Hay cap,
- Legal cap,
- Liberty cap,
- Oxford cap,
- Percussion cap,
- Phrygian cap,
- Pile cap,
- Service cap,
- Statute cap,
- Thrum cap,
- To cap the climax,
- Trencher cap,
- Turk's cap,
- Turn cap,
- White caps,
- Wishing cap,
- ball cap,
- barret cap,
- baseball cap,
- bathing cap,
- black cap,
- blasting cap,
- cap opener,
- cap screw,
- capped macaque,
- cervical cap,
- cloth cap,
- cradle cap,
- death cap,
- deerstalker cap,
- distributor cap,
- dunce cap,
- dunce's cap,
- garrison cap,
- golf cap,
- ice cap,
- inky cap,
- jockey cap,
- large cap,
- lens cap,
- overseas cap,
- peaked cap,
- radiator cap,
- root cap,
- sailor cap,
- shaggy cap,
- shower cap,
- ski cap,
- small cap,
- small caps,
- stocking cap,
- swimming cap,
- thinking cap,
- toboggan cap,
- watch cap,
- yachting cap,
- Cloud-capped,
- Flat-cap,
- Snow-capped,
- To set one's cap,
- To set one's cap for,
- cap-a-pie,
- large-cap,
- small-cap,
- turk's-cap,
- Turk's-cap lily,
- black-cap chickadee,
- black-capped chickadee,
- inky-cap mushroom,
- turk's cap-lily,
- five-point bishop's cap