Cap - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a top (as for a bottle)
- 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)
- something serving as a cover or protection
- a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
- a protective covering that is part of a plant (syn: hood)
- an upper limit on what is allowed (syn: ceiling, roof)
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature (syn: capital, chapiter)
verb
Extra examples
Be sure to cap the pen when you are done using it.
The report caps a ten-year study of lung cancer among nonsmokers.
If the teams don't cap player salaries, the league won't survive.
The law would cap legal immigration.
The government wants to cap councils that spend too much.
There are three new caps in the side.
Soon I was well known and capped to.
It caps me how this drunkard gets his work done.
To cap the misery, his only son died in infancy.
Make sure you put the cap back on the pen.
He won his first England cap against Wales in 1994.
Mason is one of two new caps in the team.
Well, we went three nights with no sleep at all. I bet you can't cap that!
He's been capped three times for England.
He's had his teeth capped.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: cap
he/she/it: caps
present participle: capping
past tense: capped
past participle: capped
singular: cap
plural: caps
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