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[ UK /kˈæp/ ]
[ US /ˈkæp/ ]
NOUN
  1. (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
    tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown
  2. a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
  3. an upper limit on what is allowed
    there was a roof on salaries
    he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him
    they established a cap for prices
  4. something serving as a cover or protection
  5. a tight-fitting headdress
  6. a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive
  7. a protective covering that is part of a plant
  8. a top (as for a bottle)
  9. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
VERB
  1. restrict the number or amount of
    We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club
  2. lie at the top of
    Snow capped the mountains

How To Use cap In A Sentence

  • The captain's armband must have special powers because he's been brilliant. Times, Sunday Times
  • You would be hard pressed to find a young captain or major who hadn't flown combat sorties in the area of operations.
  • The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
  • The Temple to the Hebrew God YHVH, built by King David, was destroyed and much of the Jewish population (Jew comes from the word Judah, one of the 12 tribes) were deported to Babylon, known to Jews as the Babylonian captivity. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • On land, giant reservoirs holding saline water could be built to offset the rise in sea levels caused by the melting of the polar ice-caps.
  • Ireland does not have another manufacturing facility with a similar capacity to absorb glass cullet (crushed glass).
  • The magnificent 18 th-century mansion is set in private landscaped grounds at the edge of the town, opposite the golf links and West Sands but totally screened by trees, woods and 18-foot high lodge gates.
  • Ingundis; and Leovigild, whose two sons, Hermenegild and Recared, were the issue of a former marriage.] [Footnote 128: Iracundiae furore succensa, adprehensam per comam capitis puellam in terram conlidit, et diu calcibus verberatam, ac sanguins cruentatam, jussit exspoliari, et piscinae immergi. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
  • We saw in the previous sections that packaged bacteriophage capsids are pressurized with pressures as high as 60 atm.
  • Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
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