'Capping' definitions:
Definition of 'Capping'
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]
Definition of 'capping'
From: GCIDE
- Coping \Cop"ing\, n. [See Cope, n.] (Arch.) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping. --Gwill. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'capping'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a cut above,
- above,
- ahead,
- ascendant,
- better,
- chosen,
- closing,
- concluding,
- consummating,
- consummative,
- consummatory,
- crowning,
- culminating,
- culminative,
- distinguished,
- eclipsing,
- eminent,
- ending,
- exceeding,
- excellent,
- excelling,
- finer,
- finishing,
- greater,
- heading,
- higher,
- in ascendancy,
- in the ascendant,
- major,
- marked,
- of choice,
- one up on,
- outstanding,
- outtopping,
- over,
- overtopping,
- perfecting,
- perfective,
- rare,
- rivaling,
- super,
- superior,
- surpassing,
- terminating,
- topping,
- transcendent,
- transcendental,
- transcending,
- upper
Words containing 'Capping'
- Cap,
- Capful,
- Capped,
- 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