cap
noun
1. a tight-fitting headdress
Definition categories: man–made, headdress, headgear
2. a top (as for a bottle)
Definition categories: man–made, cover, top
3. a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive
Similar word(s): detonator
Definition categories: man–made
4. something serving as a cover or protection
Definition categories: man–made, protection
5. a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
Similar word(s): pileus
Definition categories: plant
6. a protective covering that is part of a plant
Similar word(s): hood
Definition categories: object, cover, covering
7. an upper limit on what is allowed
- they established a cap for prices
Similar word(s): ceiling, roof
Definition categories: communication, control
8. (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
Similar word(s): crown, crownwork, jacket
Definition categories: man–made
9. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
Similar word(s): capital, chapiter
Definition categories: man–made, top
Sentences with cap as a noun:
- The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
- He took the cap of the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
- He had golden caps on his teeth.
- There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
- We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
- Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
- He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
- Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
- the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
- flat cap; foolscap; legal cap
- Parasitic caps.
verb
1. lie at the top of
- Snow capped the mountains
Similar word(s): crest
Definition categories: stative, lie
2. restrict the number or amount of
- We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club
Definition categories: change, circumscribe, limit
Sentences with cap as a verb:
- cap wages.
- That really capped my day.
- If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.
- Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.