cap
noun
[ kap ]
• a kind of soft, flat hat, typically with a peak.
• "a man wearing a raincoat and a flat cap"
• a protective lid or cover for an object such as a bottle, the point of a pen, or a camera lens.
• "a glass bottle with a screw cap"
Similar:
lid,
top,
stopper,
cork,
bung,
spile,
ferrule,
cover,
covering,
stopple,
• an upper limit imposed on spending or borrowing.
• "he raised the cap on local authority spending"
• a contraceptive diaphragm.
• the broad upper part of the fruiting body of most mushrooms and toadstools, at the top of a stem and bearing gills or pores.
• short for percussion cap.
cap
verb
• put a lid or cover on.
• "he capped his pen"
• provide a fitting climax or conclusion to.
• "he capped a memorable season by becoming champion of champions"
• place a limit or restriction on (prices, expenditure, or borrowing).
• "council budgets will be capped"
• be chosen as a member of a particular sports team, especially a national one.
• "he was capped ten times by England"
• confer a university degree on.
Origin:
Old English cæppe ‘hood’, from late Latin cappa, perhaps from Latin caput ‘head’.
cap
noun
• short for capitalization.
• "mid-cap companies"
cap.
abbreviation
• capacity.
• capital (city).
• capital letter.
CAP
abbreviation
• Common Agricultural Policy.
• Civil Air Patrol.
