cap¹ /kap/

1. A flat brimless hat, usu with a peak
2. Formerly, a woman's light head covering, usu worn indoors and made from lace, fine linen, etc
3. An official or symbolic headdress or one appropriated to a special class or use, academic, athletic, etc
4. An occasion of being selected for esp a national team, symbolized by a cap
5. A person so selected
6. The enamel which covers a tooth (anatomy)
7. An artificial covering for a tooth, replacing the natural enamel
8. A caplike covering of any kind
9. The top of a toadstool
10. The uppermost or terminal part of anything
11. A percussion cap for a toy gun, etc
12. A collection of money taken at a fox hunt (orig in a cap) for hunt servants, charity, etc
13. (also Dutch cap) a contraceptive diaphragm

1. To cover the end or top of
2. To touch with a cap in conferring a degree (chiefly Scot and NZ)
3. To select as a member of a team
4. To outdo or surpass by following with something better, more significant, etc
5. To seal off and halt the flow from (an oil or gas well)
6. To set a limit to (esp local authority budgets)

To salute by raising the cap

capˈful noun (pl capˈfuls)

cappˈer noun

cappˈing noun

1. The action of the verb cap
2. A covering, eg a hard crust that forms on soil during dry weather
3. A graduation ceremony (informal)

capˈ-case noun (obsolete)

A small travelling-case, a chest

capˈ-paper noun

1. A kind of wrapping paper
2. A size of writing paper

cap pistol noun

A toy gun using a percussion cap

cap rock noun

A stratum of (usu impervious) rock overlying oil- or gas-bearing strata

cap screw noun

A bolt with a threaded shaft and cylindrical head with a hexagonal indentation for turning it

cap sleeve noun

A short sleeve, just covering the shoulder

capˈstone noun

1. A coping-stone
2. The top or finishing stone of a structure
3. A stone slab laid flat over the top of a cist (archaeology)
4. The horizontal stone of a dolmen (archaeology)
5. A flat stone acting as a cap, eg to a shaft or chimney

black cap see under black

cap and bells

The insignia of a professional jester

cap and collar mortgage

One having a minimum (collar) and maximum (cap) rate of interest

cap in hand

1. Submissively
2. Supplicatingly

cap of liberty

The conical cap, usu made of red material, given to a Roman slave on enfranchisement, and adopted during the French revolution as an emblem of freedom, now the symbol of republicanism

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