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cap¹

  • /kæp/ Australia, Canada, UK, US
  • [kʰæp] Australia, Canada, UK, US
  • /kap/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
  • [kʰap] British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
  • /kɛp/ New Zealand
  • [kʰɛp] New Zealand

Rhymes with -æp

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

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Proto-Indo-European *kap-?

Proto-Indo-European *kap-

Proto-Indo-European *káput

Proto-Italic *kaput

Latin caput

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulum

Latin capitulum

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin -āris

Latin -āre

Latin capitulāre?

Late Latin cappabor.

Proto-West Germanic *kappā

Proto-West Germanic *kappijā

Old English cæppe

Middle English cappe

English cap

Inherited from Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Proto-West Germanic *kappā (“covering, hood, mantle”), from Late Latin cappa, itself from Latin caput. Doublet of cape, chape, and cope.

noun caps · 🧢

  1. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked. 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. We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
  8. The top part of a mushroom.
  9. 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. Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?
  12. slang A lie or exaggeration. no cap
  13. A place on a national team; an international appearance. Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
  14. obsolete The top, or uppermost part; the chief. Thou art the Cap / Of all the Fooles aliue.
  15. obsolete A respectful uncovering of the head. 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. The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
  17. The uppermost of any assemblage of parts. the cap of a 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. 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. A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
  21. A large size of writing paper. flat cap; foolscap; legal cap
  22. Appalachia Popcorn.

verb caps · capping · 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. broadly, slang, transitive To paint over someone else's piece or tag.
  5. transitive To surpass or outdo.
  6. transitive To set (or reach) an upper limit on something. to cap wages
  7. figuratively, transitive To conclude; to make something even more wonderful at the end. That really capped my day.
  8. transitive To select a player to play for a specified side.
  9. slang, transitive To shoot (someone) with a firearm. If he don’t get outta my hood, I’m gonna cap his ass.
  10. intransitive, slang To lie; to tell a lie. "How? Didn’t I cap for you, an’ square you with the examinin’ board? Didn’t I stake you to the three hundred dollars?"
  11. transitive To select to play for the national team. Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
  12. obsolete, transitive To salute by uncovering the head respectfully. Tom never miſsed a lecture, and capped the proctor with the profoundeſt of bows.
  13. To deprive of a cap. 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

cap²

  • /kæp/ Australia, Canada, UK, US
  • [kʰæp] Australia, Canada, UK, US
  • /kap/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
  • [kʰap] British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
  • /kɛp/ New Zealand
  • [kʰɛp] New Zealand

Rhymes with -æp

Where it comes from

Various clippings from longer words beginning with the three letters.

noun caps · 🧢

  1. Capitalization.
  2. informal A capital letter.
  3. A capacitor. parasitic caps
  4. abbreviation, clipping, colloquial Clipping of capture; a recording or screenshot.capture Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
  5. slang A capsule of a drug. 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.
  6. colloquial A capitalist.
  7. A capillary.
  8. A caption.
  9. informal A cappuccino.

verb caps · capping · capped · 🧢

  1. informal, transitive To convert text to uppercase.
  2. transitive To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video. 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)
  3. transitive To capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint. Call your friends and bring a gun / The Halo revolution's on / Capping flags and arming bombs / Yes, we don't blink until we're done
  4. intransitive, transitive To capitulate (cause to capitulate) an opponent.

cap³

  • /kæp/ Australia, Canada, UK, US
  • [kʰæp] Australia, Canada, UK, US
  • /kap/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
  • [kʰap] British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
  • /kɛp/ New Zealand
  • [kʰɛp] New Zealand

Rhymes with -æp

Where it comes from

From Scots cap, an alteration of earlier cop, from Middle English cop, from Old English copp (“a cup, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz.

noun caps · 🧢

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

CAP⁴

noun CAPs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of conservation action plan.conservation action plan
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of catabolite activator protein.catabolite activator protein
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of community-acquired pneumonia.community-acquired pneumonia
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem.consistency
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of combat air patrol.combat air patrol
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of change acceleration process.change acceleration process
  7. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of cold atmospheric plasma.cold atmospheric plasma
  8. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of colors and placements.colors and placements

proper noun

  1. European Union, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Common Agricultural Policy.Common Agricultural Policy The fact remains that if Ukraine joins, the CAP budget will either have to be increased dramatically or will evaporate, given the sheer area of agricultural land in Ukraine (it’s bigger than the whole of Italy), with the average farm taking up about 1,000 hectares compared to 16 hectares in the rest
  2. US, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Civil Air Patrol.Civil Air Patrol
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Colleague Assistance Program.Colleague Assistance Program

Cap⁵

Where it comes from

Clipping of captain.

proper noun

  1. A nickname for the captain of a team, ship, etc. "But listen, Cap!" he protested, momentarily falling out of his role as Midshipman Hornblower. "I haven't got any place else to go! This is where I sleep, where else do you want me to write my letters?"
  2. A nickname for a man generally. ‘Hi Cap! Is that the moving picture ship?’

Cap⁶

Where it comes from

Clipping of Capricorn.

noun Caps

  1. abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of Capricorn.Capricorn Caps are also naturally inclined towards stability and security—they're totally different from noncommittal Sagittarius men. If you're looking for someone who's ready to commit rather than stay in a situationship, odds are that he might be a Capricorn.

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