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Cap   /kæp/   Listen
Cap

noun
1.
A tight-fitting headdress.
2.
A top (as for a bottle).
3.
A mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive.  Synonyms: detonating device, detonator.
4.
Something serving as a cover or protection.
5.
A fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom.  Synonym: pileus.
6.
A protective covering that is part of a plant.  Synonym: hood.
7.
An upper limit on what is allowed.  Synonyms: ceiling, roof.  "There was a roof on salaries" , "They established a cap for prices"
8.
(dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth.  Synonyms: crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown.
9.
The upper part of a column that supports the entablature.  Synonyms: capital, chapiter.
verb
(past & past part. capped; pres. part. capping)
1.
Lie at the top of.  Synonym: crest.
2.
Restrict the number or amount of.



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"Cap" Quotes from Famous Books



... secret thoughts of the wedding-guests, and learned much which the others did not suspect. The bridegroom thought more of the wealth of his father-in-law than of his young wife; and she, who was not altogether faultless, hoped that her husband and her matron's cap would protect her from scandal. It's a great pity that such a hat is no longer to be met with in ...
— The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country • William Forsell Kirby

... I say, and withal declared it to be not only possible, but also maintained the lawful birth and legitimation of the infant born of a woman in the eleventh month after the decease of her husband. Hypocrates, lib. de alimento. Plinius, lib. 7, cap. 5. Plautus, in his Cistelleria. Marcus Varro, in his satire inscribed The Testament, alleging to this purpose the authority of Aristotle. Censorinus, lib. de die natali. Arist. lib. 7, cap. 3 & 4, de natura animalium. Gellius, lib. 3, cap. 16. Servius, ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... already been sufficiently divulged in an address of Mr. Clement C. Clay to the Legislature of Alabama. But there was another more hidden impulse to this extreme solicitude for the recognition of the independence of Texas working in the free states, quite as ready to assume the mask and cap of liberty as the slave-dealing champions of the rights of man. The Texan land and liberty jobbers had spread the contagion of their land-jobbing traffic all over the free states throughout the Union. ...
— Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. • Josiah Quincy

... words came back to me! It was to Boulogne that in my boyhood we had gone down for the summer bathing. Could I not remember as a little lad trotting along by my father's side as he paced the beach, and wondering why every fisherman's cap flew off at our approach? And as to Etaples, it was thence that we had fled for England, when the folks came raving to the pier-head as we passed, and I joined my thin voice to my father's as he shrieked back at them, for a stone had broken my mother's knee, and we were ...
— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle

... at her, and then two smiling little faces were pressed against the pane for an eager glimpse. It was the prettiest wayside picture the passengers had seen in all that morning's travel—the Little Colonel on her pony, with the spray of locust bloom in the cockade of the Napoleon cap she wore, and a plume of the same graceful blossoms nodding jauntily over each of ...
— The Little Colonel's Hero • Annie Fellows Johnston


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