caps
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Definitions ofcaps
- A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
Example: "The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun."
- A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
- An academic mortarboard.
- A protective cover or seal.
Example: "He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne."
- A crown for covering a tooth.
Example: "He had golden caps on his teeth."
- The summit of a mountain, etc.
Example: "There was snow on the cap of the mountain."
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
Example: "We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control."
- The top part of a mushroom.
- (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
Example: "Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy."
- A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
Example: "He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely."
- A bullet used to shoot someone.
- An international appearance.
Example: "Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden."
- The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
- A respectful uncovering of the head.
- The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
Example: "the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate"
- Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- 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.
- A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
- A large size of writing paper.
Example: "flat cap; foolscap; legal cap"
- A lie or exaggeration.
Example: "no cap"
- To cover or seal with a cap.
- To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
- To lie over or on top of something.
- To surpass or outdo.
- To set an upper limit on something.
Example: "cap wages."
- To make something even more wonderful at the end.
Example: "That really capped my day."
- To select a player to play for a specified side.
- To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
Example: "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."
- To select to play for the national team.
Example: "Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer."
- To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
- To deprive of a cap.
- To tell a lie.
- Capitalization.
- An uppercase letter.
- To convert text to uppercase.
- Capacitor
Example: "Parasitic caps."
- A recording or screenshot.
Example: "Anyone have a cap of the games last night?"
- To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
- A capsule of a drug.
- A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
- Capital letters; capitals.
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