Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CAP

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Definitions of CAP

1. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
2. A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
3. An academic mortarboard.
4. A protective cover or seal.
5. A crown for covering a tooth.
6. The summit of a mountain, etc.
7. An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
8. The top part of a mushroom.
9. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
10. Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
11. A large size of writing paper.
12. To deprive of a cap.
13. capillary
14. (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
15. (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
16. (slang, originally, AAVE) A lie or exaggeration.
17. (sport) A place on a national team; an international appearance.
18. (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
19. (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
20. (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
21. (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
22. (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.
23. (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
24. (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.
25. (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
26. (transitive) To lie over or on top of something.
27. (transitive) To surpass or outdo.
28. (transitive) To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
29. (transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.
30. (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side.
31. (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
32. (intransitive, slang, originally, AAVE) To lie; to tell a lie.
33. (transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.
34. (transitive, obsolete) To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
35. (finance) Capitalization.
36. (informal) An uppercase or capital letter.
37. (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.
38. (electronics) A capacitor.
39. (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.
40. (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
41. (slang) A capsule of a drug.
42. (colloquial) A capitalist.
43. (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
44. Initialism of conservation action plan.
45. Initialism of catabolite activator protein.
46. (medicine) Initialism of community-acquired pneumonia.
47. (comptheory) Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem.
48. Initialism of combat air patrol.
49. Initialism of change acceleration process.
50. Initialism of colors and placements.
51. (European Union) Initialism of Common Agricultural Policy.
52. (US) Initialism of Civil Air Patrol.
53. Initialism of Colleague Assistance Program.
54. A nickname for the captain of a team, ship, etc.
55. A nickname for a man generally.
56. (astrology, informal) Clipping of Capricorn.

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Examples of Using CAP in a Sentence

• The company also produced steel used to build railroads in the United States and to cap the Chrysler Building.
• Legend has it that on his arrival in Rome in a chariot, an eagle took his cap, flew away and then returned it back upon his head.
• The round can also said to be closed before it has actually ended if there are still players remaining to act, but they will not be entitled to raise either because the last raise was a sub-minimum all-in raise (see poker table stakes rules) or because the limit ("cap") on allowed raises has been reached.
• The Turks Islands are named after the Turk's cap cactus, Melocactus intortus, whose red cephalium resembles the fez hat worn by Turks in the late Ottoman Empire.
• In an emissions trading scheme, a central authority or governmental body allocates or sells a limited number (a "cap") of permits that allow a discharge of a specific quantity of a specific pollutant over a set time period.
• Overshoot (typography), the degree to which a letter dips below the baseline, or exceeds the cap height.
• A polar climate consists of cool summers and very cold winters (or, in the case of ice cap climates, no real summer at all), which results in treeless tundra, glaciers, or a permanent or semi-permanent layer of ice.
• Archaeological sites from that period remain in Ca na Costa, Cap de Barbaria (multiple sites) and Cova des Fum.
• Root morphology is divided into four zones: the root cap, the apical meristem, the elongation zone, and the hair.
• Market capitalization, sometimes referred to as market cap, is the total value of a publicly traded company's outstanding common shares owned by stockholders.
• The Act also incorporated Community Law (later European Union Law), along with its , its treaties, regulations, directives, decisions, the Community Customs Union (later European Union Customs Union), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the Common Fisheries Policy (FCP) together with judgments of the European Court of Justice into the domestic law of the United Kingdom.
• Psilocybe cubensis, commonly known as the magic mushroom, shroom, golden halo, golden teacher, cube, or gold cap, is a species of psilocybin mushroom of moderate potency whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin.
• The percussion cap, percussion primer, or caplock, introduced in the early 1820s, is a type of single-use percussion ignition device for muzzle loader firearm locks enabling them to fire reliably in any weather condition.
• The Whalers saw success immediately, winning the Eastern Division in the WHA's first three seasons and becoming the inaugural Avco World Trophy Champions to cap off the 1972–73 season.
• They are generally described as being short, having a long white beard, and wearing a conical or knit cap in gray, red or some other bright colour.
• During World War II, she was evacuated to the safety of the Baltic Sea where she remembered seeing dead bodies on the shore (after the ships Cap Arcona and the SS Deutschland had been bombed and sunk) and the destruction in Hamburg when she returned.
• This bridge was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War in the battle of "Cap de Pont" (bridgehead battle in 1938) and rebuilt after the war.
• In some cases a fair usage policy applied to a service allowing nominally unlimited use for a fixed fee simply sets a cap on what may be used.
• She is usually portrayed with two accoutrements: the spear and a phrygian cap, which she holds out on the spear, rather than wears on her head.
• The formation of a national competition, beginning in 1987, has resulted in the league attempting to develop "an even and stable competition" through a range of equalisation policies, such as a salary cap and draft (introduced in 1985 and 1986, respectively).
• Rope hangs between the end of the pole that does not have the cap to the inside of the undercarriage, as far away from the start of the rope as possible.
• Lilias Rider Haggard's novel, The Rabbit Skin Cap (1939) tells the life story of George Baldry, a local inventor and poacher.
• The cap (roof), is of stone, usually conical in shape, although some of the towers are now crowned by a later circle of battlements.
• There are monkey gums and ribbon gum along the creeks, and the park is home to chef's cap correa, an endangered species.
• The first European to discover the area was the French Admiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux in 1792 and he named it Cap Aride; Matthew Flinders anglicized the name in 1802 and the park took its name from this feature.

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