单词 | cap |
释义 | cap (kæp ) Word forms: caps , capping , capped 1. countable noun A2 A cap is a soft, flat hat with a curved part at the front which is called a peak. ...a dark-blue baseball cap. 2. countable noun A2 A cap is a special hat which is worn as part of a uniform. ...a frontier guard in olive-grey uniform and a peaked cap. 3. verb [usually passive] If a sports player is capped, they are chosen to represent their country in a team game such as football, rugby, or cricket. [British] Rees, 32, has been capped for England 23 times. [be VERB-ed] ...England's most capped rugby union player. [VERB-ed] 4. countable noun If a sports player represents their country in a team game such as football, rugby, or cricket, you can say that they have been awarded a cap. [British] He will win his first cap for Wales in Sunday's Test match against Australia. [+ for] 5. countable noun [adjective NOUN] You can refer to someone who is representing their country for the first time in a team game such as football, rugby, or cricket, as a new cap. [British] New Zealand - who have one new cap - won last year's fixture 29-9. 6. verb If the government caps an organization, council, or budget, it limits the amount of money that the organization or council is allowed to spend, or limits the size of the budget. The Secretary of State for Environment has the power to cap councils which spend excessively. [VERB noun] Nearly half of all local councils face being capped. [VERB noun] capping uncountable noun Between 70 and 80 councils face significant spending cuts or capping next year. 7. countable noun B2 The cap of a bottle is its lid. She unscrewed the cap of her water bottle and gave him a drink. [+ of] Synonyms: lid, cork, stopper, cover 8. countable noun A cap is a circular rubber device that a woman places inside her vagina to prevent herself from becoming pregnant. [British] 9. verb If you cap one thing with another, you put the other thing on top. They had capped the roof with plywood. [VERB noun with noun] ...homemade scones capped with cream. [VERB-ed] 10. See also snow-capped 11. verb If someone says that a good or bad event caps a series of events, they mean it is the final event in the series, and the other events were also good or bad. [journalism] The win capped a fine tournament for the Irish team. [VERB noun] 12. verb [usually passive] If someone's teeth are capped, covers are fixed over them so that they look better. He suddenly smiled, revealing teeth that had recently been capped. [be VERB-ed] I had my teeth capped. [have noun VERB-ed] 13. countable noun A cap is a small amount of explosive that is wrapped in paper. Caps are often used in toy guns. 14. See also ice cap 15. cap in hand phrase [PHRASE after verb] If you go cap in hand to someone, you ask them very humbly to give you something or to do something for you. [informal] The country might eventually be forced to go cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund. Idioms: a feather in someone's cap something that someone has done very well,which deserves admiration Winning the St Andrews Trophy was another feather in the cap of the Essex teenager. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers put your thinking cap on or get your thinking cap on to try hard to solve a problem by thinking about it She decided to put her thinking cap on: there must be a job somewhere that she could do. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers if the cap fits, wear it [British] said to suggest that someone should consider whether unpleasant or critical remarks which have been made about them are true or fair. The American expression is if the shoe fits. I have not mentioned any names yet, but I told the team what I think and I told them that if the cap fits, they should wear it. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers cap in hand [mainly British] very humbly and respectfully. The usual American expression is hat in hand. On holiday, if you rely on cash and lose the lot, you could end up going cap in hand to the nearest British consulate. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: cap a fee Some campaigners had hoped that it would cap the fee for bouncing cheques or exceeding overdraft limits at less than the typical 30 charge. Times, Sunday Times He has promised to cap the fees of pension companies at 1 per cent and to freeze the price of energy for 20 months. Times, Sunday Times Debt managers faded on fresh concern that credit providers want to cap the fees that they receive for setting up individual voluntary arrangements. Times, Sunday Times Look at the earnings before tax and interest, and determine a fair cap rate. ST The current value of the investment, not the actual initial investment, should be used in the cap rate calculation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To get the unlevered rate of return on an investment the real estate investor adds (or subtracts) the price change percentage from the cap rate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For example, a property delivering an 8% capitalization, or cap rate, that increases in value by 2% delivers a 10% overall rate of return. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Our savings include capping rates so that no individual can earn more than 250,000 in any one year, saving 16 million alone. Times, Sunday Times It aims to give investors an 'appropriateness' test before they hand over cash, and could cap the amount lent at 10% of their savings. Times, Sunday Times Ministers will announce today plans to cap the amount that families pay for old age care, but will not say by how much or when. Times, Sunday Times Half said that patients should have to pay for some healthcare themselves, with a similar proportion saying government should cap the amount it paid towards care. Times, Sunday Times This government's main piece of legislation, which will cap the amount any individual pays for their old age care at 72,000, has already been widely derided as inadequate. Times, Sunday Times So we welcome motoring chiefs' calls for laws to cap the amount of parking tickets councils can issue each month. The Sun At the current annual emission rates of about 36bn tonnes, the remaining 1,000bn tonnes 'carbon cap' will be reached by about 2039. Times, Sunday Times This time they have made a public commitment to set binding pollution reduction targets and claim to support carbon cap and trade schemes. Times, Sunday Times As fossil fuel generation becomes less attractive it will be increasingly unattractive to exceed a carbon cap because the financial disincentive will grow via market forces. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By contrast, cap and trade gives a clear emissions cap and then allows the market to decide the price of carbon in order to deliver the prescribed reductions in emissions. Times, Sunday Times The measure was intended to increase performance standards for electricity generation and motor vehicles with the option of an emissions cap and trade system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The emissions cap would begin in 2010 with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Plenty of stock in these areas will still exceed the cap. Times, Sunday Times Any town hall exceeding the cap would have to put the decision out to a local referendum. Times, Sunday Times In all, accounts show that eight exceeded the cap. Times,Sunday Times Those that exceed their caps must buy additional allowances from the market. Times, Sunday Times Nonetheless, enrollment has fluctuated through the years and rose back to nearly 35,000 (exceeding the cap) in 2008. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The 'nuclear' option would be to impose a cap on mortgages as a proportion of a property's value, or a borrower's income. Times, Sunday Times Also, some accounts may impose a cap on the amount of funds that can be transferred. Times, Sunday Times A simple - albeit anti-competitive - solution would be for the government to impose standardised terms across the industry - or at least impose a cap. Times, Sunday Times It wants to impose a cap, in effect, on what the company can charge. Times, Sunday Times This was extremely successful, and in 1911 had to impose a cap of 350 members. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although they lose their best players, the regulations give them no dispensation to spend extra—to lift the cap— to replace those players. Times, Sunday Times Treasury sources claimed that the plan to lift the cap on student numbers would not be affected by the decision. Times, Sunday Times Ministers are preparing a multibillion-pound bailout of airlines and industries by using emergency powers to lift a cap on financial support. The Sun Students could find themselves facing bills of up to 80,000 if ministers go ahead with plans, announced this week, to lift the cap on tuition fees. Times, Sunday Times Ministers, lobbied by hospitals looking for other sources of funding, had previously said that they would lift the cap level but it was unclear how much private activity they envisioned. Times, Sunday Times Imagine a mushroom cap, it looks like that. Times, Sunday Times In a small bowl, crack each egg into a mushroom cap. The Sun Occasionally, the mushroom cap has a strong brownish tint when fresh. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Arrange the mushroom caps top-down on a baking sheet. The Sun Season, then pile the chicken mix onto the mushroom caps. The Sun He was wearing his denim peaked cap, and a long impractical white scarf and looked like a glamorously archaic revolutionary. AN OLDER WOMAN (2002) She wore a red handkerchief round her head and a peaked cap on top of that to increase her air of being intolerant of nonsense. Somewhere East of Life (1994) Sketching a farewell wave to the peaked cap, he drove carefully away from the docks and headed, as he'd been told, for the M4. TICKLED PINK (2002) Dressed in a smart uniform and peaked cap, the driver gets out, opens the boot and takes out a kit bag. Times, Sunday Times (2007) From this angle, he could be almost any man in a peaked cap, a dark blue jacket. Times, Sunday Times (2016) I couldn't believe they asked me to remove my cap. The Sun Top-level visas for those of exceptional talent are being overhauled to widen eligibility and to remove the cap on numbers. Times,Sunday Times A 1 billion package of measures to help young people into work, to build skills and 'remove that cap on aspiration' was the token offering. Times, Sunday Times Motorists face a sharp rise in clamping and removal fees under plans by the parking industry's trade body to remove the cap on penalties. Times, Sunday Times The commission wants to remove this cap and allow adverts to form up to 20 per cent of output from 7am to 11pm. Times, Sunday Times As such its bright white winter snow cap, unobstructed by vegetation, makes the mountain noticeable from many miles away. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The snow and ice thickness varies over time, making a definitive height of the snow cap impossible to determine. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We rolled along towards the white towns looking like summer snow caps atop the peaks. Times, Sunday Times And the mountains' shrinking snow caps mean less cover for animals that rely on it for camouflage, especially ptarmigan and the elusive wolverine. Times, Sunday Times It also commands a breath taking view of the snow capped peaks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They pay match fees and win bonuses, not retainers, and they are some way below the spending cap at this level. Times,Sunday Times In legal terms there will be a tenweek minimum period before the vote where rules, most notably a 7 million spending cap, apply. Times, Sunday Times A brave party would suggest a spending cap. Times, Sunday Times They are also subject to a net spending cap of 49 million covering last summer's transfer window and this winter window. Times, Sunday Times The latest forecasts show that the schemes are set to exceed the spending cap and cost 8.7 billion in 2020-21. Times, Sunday Times Santa, below Hard hat or tweed cap? Times, Sunday Times (2016) He was a hard-faced man of sixty-two, sullen and morose in an old flying jacket and tweed cap, a grey stubble covering his chin. CONFESSIONAL (2001) Now worn with a tweed cap for domestic tasks, it is the only item of uniform I retained for future use. Times, Sunday Times (2013) So head out and enjoy it: grab tweed cap and wellies, and get busy with our eight favourite winter country pursuits. Times, Sunday Times (2014) It was a man driving, tweed cap, Barbour, a caricature of a country type. THE EXECUTION (2002) It needs to go back to only three foreign players on match days and a wage cap. The Sun It makes me wonder whether a wage cap would be a good idea after all. The Sun Football used to have a wage cap. Times, Sunday Times I get the annoyance at that - in which case, change the system, introduce wage caps or increase tax rates. Times,Sunday Times His wage cap's proving so popular that everyone's left. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 帽子 Japanese: 縁なし帽子 |
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