Meaning of Cap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Capitalization.
2. A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
   obsolete
3. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
4. Initialism of conservation action plan.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
5. A nickname for the captain of a team, ship, etc.
6. Clipping of Capricorn.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
7. Initialism of Common Agricultural Policy.
   European-Union, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
8. A capital letter.
   informal
9. A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
10. Initialism of catabolite activator protein.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
11. A nickname for a man generally.
12. Initialism of Civil Air Patrol.
    US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
13. A capacitor.
14. Initialism of community-acquired pneumonia.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
15. An academic mortarboard.
16. Initialism of Colleague Assistance Program.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
17. Clipping of capture; a recording or screenshot.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
18. Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
19. A protective cover or seal.
20. A capsule of a drug.
    slang
21. Initialism of combat air patrol.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
22. A crown for covering a tooth.
23. A capitalist.
    colloquial
24. Initialism of change acceleration process.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
25. The summit of a mountain, etc.
26. A capillary.
27. Initialism of colors and placements.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
28. An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
29. A caption.
30. The top part of a mushroom.
31. A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
32. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
33. A bullet used to shoot someone.
    slang
34. A lie or exaggeration.
    slang
35. A place on a national team; an international appearance.
36. The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
    obsolete
37. A respectful uncovering of the head.
    obsolete
38. The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
39. The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
40. Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
41. A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
42. A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
43. A large size of writing paper.
44. Popcorn.
    Appalachia

Equivalents

Examples

“The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.”

“That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white, “Sorrow and sickness on thee alight” That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small, “No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!””

“He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.”

“He had golden caps on his teeth.”

“There was snow on the cap of the mountain.”

“We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.”

“The G7 countries have agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil in an attempt to stem the flow of funds into the Kremlin’s war coffers. […] The level of the cap is still being discussed.”

“Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.”

“He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.”

“Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?”

“no cap”

“that’s cap”

“Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.”

“"By the way, are you by any chance the Malone who is expected to get his Rugby cap for Ireland?" "A reserve, perhaps."”

“Overall, though, England’s injury-diminished side coped well on the night when Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Jordan Pickford and Tammy Abraham all won their first caps.”

“Thou art the Cap / Of all the Fooles aliue.”

“He that will give a cap and make a leg, in thanks for a favour he never received, deserveth rather to be blamed for want of wit, than to be praised for store of manners.”

“the cap of a column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate”

“flat cap; foolscap; legal cap”

“parasitic caps”

“I had to replace the caps in that thing to get it to work again.”

“Anyone have a cap of the games last night?”

“If you have a cap of Gabby's bare butt from the "forget me not" episode please post or mail it...”

“Here's a cap of Jennifer from her latest Letterman appearance […]”

“Please be assured that when I do get around to capping the Brits, there will NOT be one single cap of that slutty bitch, her whorishness has dropped to even lower levels than before.”

“Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.”

“The fact remains that if Ukraine joins, the CAP budget will either have to be increased dramatically or will evaporate, given the sheer area of agricultural land in Ukraine (it’s bigger than the whole of Italy), with the average farm taking up about 1,000 hectares compared to 16 hectares in the rest of the EU.”

“"But listen, Cap!" he protested, momentarily falling out of his role as Midshipman Hornblower. "I haven't got any place else to go! This is where I sleep, where else do you want me to write my letters?"”

“‘Hi Cap! Is that the moving picture ship?’”

““I'd take Vernon Dewey for my team any day.” “And their quarterback can throw,” Cap pointed out. “But we did all right, huh, Grandpa?” “You did fine,” Tully replied. “All of you did real well.” “Cap, you can throw ...””

““Well, Cap, you seem to be a nice gentleman from a good family, but I wished you had come to me and my wife and talked to me before you two started making all these decisions.””

“Caps are also naturally inclined towards stability and security—they're totally different from noncommittal Sagittarius men. If you're looking for someone who's ready to commit rather than stay in a situationship, odds are that he might be a Capricorn.”

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