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cap

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cap"

EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /kæp/, [kʰæp]
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  • Hyphenation: cap
  • Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of cape, chape, and cope.

NounEdit

cap (plural caps)

  1. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
    Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:headwear
    The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
  2. A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
  3. An academic mortarboard.
  4. A protective cover or seal.
    He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
  5. A crown for covering a tooth.
    He had golden caps on his teeth.
  6. The summit of a mountain, etc.
    There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
  7. An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
    Antonym: floor
    We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
    • 2022 September 2, Alex Lawson, “G7 countries agree plan to impose price cap on Russian oil”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      The G7 countries have agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil in an attempt to stem the flow of funds into the Kremlin’s war coffers. […] The level of the cap is still being discussed.
  8. The top part of a mushroom.
  9. (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
    Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
  10. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
    He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
  11. (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
    • 2001, Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon
      Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?
  12. (slang, from African-American Vernacular) A lie or exaggeration.
    no cap
  13. (sports) A place on a national team; an international appearance.
    Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      "By the way, are you by any chance the Malone who is expected to get his Rugby cap for Ireland?" "A reserve, perhaps."
    • 2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London)‎[2]:
      Overall, though, England’s injury-diminished side coped well on the night when Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Jordan Pickford and Tammy Abraham all won their first caps.
  14. (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
  15. (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year MDCXLVIII, volume 1, London: Thomas Tegg and Son, published 1837, page 9:
      He that will give a cap and make a leg, in thanks for a favour he never received, deserveth rather to be blamed for want of wit, than to be praised for store of manners.
  16. (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
  17. (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
    the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
  18. Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
  19. (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.
  20. (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
  21. A large size of writing paper.
    flat cap; foolscap; legal cap
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VerbEdit

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

  1. (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.
  2. (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
  3. (transitive) To lie over or on top of something.
  4. (transitive) To surpass or outdo.
  5. (transitive) To set an upper limit on something.
    cap wages.
  6. (transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.
    That really capped my day.
  7. (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side.
  9. (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
    Synonym: pop a cap into
    If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.
    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.
  11. (intransitive, slang, especially African-American Vernacular) To lie; to tell a lie.
    • 1906, Lewis, Alfred Henry, “Confessions of a Detective”, in Confessions of a Detective, New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, page 36:
      "How? Didn't I cap for you, an' square you with the examinin' board? Didn't I stake you to the three hundred dollars?"
  12. (transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.
    Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
  13. (transitive, obsolete) To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
  14. To deprive of a cap.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A View of the State of Ireland as It Was in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Dublin: Laurence Flin, published 1763, page 50:
      As if one going to diſtrain upon his own Land or Tenement, where lawfully he may; yet if in doing thereof, he tranſgreſs the leaſt Point of the Common Law, he ſtraight committeth Felony. Or if one, by any other Occaſion, take any thing from another, as Boys uſe ſometimes to cap one another, the ſame is ſtraight Felony.
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Etymology 2Edit

From capitalization, by shortening.

NounEdit

cap (plural caps)

  1. (finance) Capitalization.
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Etymology 3Edit

From capital, by shortening.

NounEdit

cap (plural caps)

  1. (informal) An uppercase or capital letter.
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TranslationsEdit

VerbEdit

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

  1. (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.

Etymology 4Edit

From capacitor, by shortening.

NounEdit

cap (plural caps)

  1. (electronics) A capacitor.
    Parasitic caps.
    I had to replace the caps in that thing to get it to work again.

Etymology 5Edit

Shortening of capture.

NounEdit

cap (plural caps)

  1. (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.
    • 1996 December 9, Fox [username], “Anyone has a cap of yesterday's irc-convention on undernet ?”, in alt.paranet.ufo, Usenet‎[3]:
    • 1998 September 26, Mr Hanky [username] <meister_hanky@hotmail.com>, “req: does anyone have a cap of Gabby's behind from "Forget Me Not"”, in alt.tv.xena, Usenet‎[4], retrieved August 7, 2016:
      If you have a cap of Gabby's bare butt from the "forget me not" episode please post or mail it...
    • 1998 April 27, Johan [username], “Jennifer on Letterman”, in alt.fan.jen-aniston, Usenet‎[5], retrieved August 7, 2016:
      Here's a cap of Jennifer from her latest Letterman appearance […]
    • 2000 March 4, RichieH [username], “Please somebody get a cap of Faye from steps at the Brits!!!!!!!!”, in alt.tv.shaggable.babes, Usenet‎[6]:
      Please be assured that when I do get around to capping the Brits, there will NOT be one single cap of that slutty bitch, her whorishness has dropped to even lower levels than before.
    Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
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VerbEdit

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

  1. (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
    • 2001 December 3, Methos [username], alt.fan.televisionx, Usenet‎[7]:
      I've capped in VCD format, so will eventually post it to abme (I've since found out that it's a bit OT for this group)
    • 2002 June 11, test . com Ground Hog [username], alt.luser.recovery, Usenet‎[8]:
      Please tell me someone capped it!!!!
    • 2003 February 18, jacuk [username], alt.fan.pornstar.darrian, Usenet‎[9]:
      If I had a method of capping from video tapes there's a movie that I can no longer remember the name of which has a single scene with Racquel and Derrick as a newly married couple having sex under the lustful eyes of Joey Silvera.
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Etymology 6Edit

Clipping of capsule

NounEdit

cap (plural caps)

  1. (slang) A capsule of a drug.
    • 2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive
      Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.
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Etymology 7Edit

Shortening of capitalist.

NounEdit

cap (plural caps)

  1. (colloquial) A capitalist.
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Etymology 8Edit

Shortening of capillary.

NounEdit

cap (plural caps)

  1. capillary
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Etymology 9Edit

Scots [Term?], probably from Old English copp (“a cup”).

NounEdit

cap (plural caps)

  1. (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.

AnagramsEdit

AromanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput. Plural form capiti from Latin capita. Compare Romanian cap.

NounEdit

cap n (plural capiti/capite)

  1. head

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CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Vulgar Latin capus (“head, chief”), from Latin caput (“head, etc.”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput. Compare Occitan cap. Compare also French personne (which can mean either "person" or "nobody").

NounEdit

cap m (plural caps)

  1. (anatomy) head
  2. boss, chief, leader
    cap d'estat ― head of state
  3. cape (piece of land)
  4. (heraldry) chief
  5. end
    cap de setmana ― weekend
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DeterminerEdit

cap (indeclinable)

  1. no, not any (usually with no or other negative particle)
    No hi ha cap iogurt de maduixa.
    There is no strawberry yogurt.
    • 2019 August 21, Rosa M. Bravo, “La demanda de tractament per deixar la cocaïna creix”, in El Punt Avui‎[10]:
      A més, 3.500 persones han passat per les sales de consum ateses per professionals, on cap de les 214 sobredosis ha estat mortal.
      Additionally, 3,500 people have passed through the [drug] use rooms tended by professionals, where none of the 214 overdoses has been fatal.
  2. any (in questions and suppositions)
    Que hi falta cap peça?
    Is there any missing piece?

PronounEdit

cap

  1. none, not one (usually with no or other negative particle)
    no n'hi ha cap de maduixa
    there is not any strawberry flavoured one
  2. anyone (in questions and suppositions)
    que en falta cap? ― is there anyone missing?

PrepositionEdit

cap

  1. towards, to
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Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

cap

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of cabre
  2. second-person singular imperative form of cabre

Further readingEdit

ChineseEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From English cap.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cap (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. Used in cap帽.
  2. upper limit; upper bound

Etymology 2Edit

From clipping of English capture.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

cap (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. to screenshot or record
    cap低 [Cantonese]  ―  kep1 dai1 [Jyutping]  ―  to save a screenshot
  2. to obtain or accumulate money
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Etymology 3Edit

From clipping of English capacitor.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cap (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. capacitor (Classifier: 粒 c)
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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Occitan cap, from Latin caput. Doublet of chef.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cap m (plural caps)

  1. (geography) cape
  2. (archaic) head
  3. (nautical) heading
  4. (figuratively) goal, direction, course
    Synonym: cible
    cap stratégique ― strategic course
  5. (Quebec, geography) cap (summit of a mountain)

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IndonesianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃap]
  • Hyphenation: cap

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

cap (first-person possessive capku, second-person possessive capmu, third-person possessive capnya)

  1. seal, stamp.
    Synonyms: stempel, tera
  2. record.
    Synonym: rekaman
  3. printing.
    Synonyms: cetak, cetakan
  4. trademark.
    Synonyms: merk dagang, etiket
  5. (figurative) characteristic.
    Synonyms: ciri, sifat
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Etymology 2Edit

Onomatopoeic.

NounEdit

cap (first-person possessive capku, second-person possessive capmu, third-person possessive capnya)

  1. sound of tongue smacking
    Synonym: kecap

Further readingEdit

JavaneseEdit

NounEdit

cap

  1. seal, stamp

LashiEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃap/, /t͡ɕap/

ClassifierEdit

cap

  1. Classifier for fruit.

ReferencesEdit

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎[11], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

MalayEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English chop (“An official stamp or seal, as in China and India”), from Indo-Aryan, either Hindi छाप (chāp), Gujarati છાપ (chāp), Bengali ছাপ (chap) all meaning stamp, seal.

NounEdit

cap

  1. seal; stamp

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

cap

  1. Alternative form of cappe

Middle FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Old Occitan cap.

NounEdit

cap m (plural caps)

  1. head
    • 1369-1400, Jean Froissart, Chroniques
      Armez de pié en cap
      Armed from head to toe

DescendantsEdit

  • French: cap
  • → English: cape

OccitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Occitan cap, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cap m (plural caps)

  1. head (the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs)
  2. leader, chief, mastermind
  3. cape, headland

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Romanian țap, itself possibly from Albanian cjap.

NounEdit

cap m anim

  1. billy-goat
  2. buck (male of an antlered animal)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of cap
singular plural
nominative cap capy
genitive capa capów
dative capowi capom
accusative capa capy
instrumental capem capami
locative capie capach
vocative capie capy
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

cap

  1. second-person singular imperative of capić

Further readingEdit

  • cap in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cap in Polish dictionaries at PWN

RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput. Plural form capete from Latin capita. Compare the doublet șef, borrowed from French.

NounEdit

cap n (plural capete)

  1. head
DeclensionEdit
Declension of cap
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cap capul (niște) capete capetele
genitive/dative (unui) cap capului (unor) capete capetelor
vocative capule capetelor
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Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from French cap.

NounEdit

cap n (plural capuri)

  1. cape (headland)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of cap
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cap capul (niște) capuri capurile
genitive/dative (unui) cap capului (unor) capuri capurilor
vocative capule capurilor

SlovakEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cap m anim (genitive singular capa, nominative plural capy, genitive plural capov), declension pattern chlap for singular, dub for plural

  1. a male goat, he-goat, billygoat

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cap
singular plural
nominative cap capy
genitive capa capov
dative capovi capom
accusative capa capy
locative capovi capoch
instrumental capom capmi

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Further readingEdit

  • cap in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

TyapEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cap

  1. fur
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