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Etymology 1

Middle English cappe < Old Northern French cape, variant of Old French chape < Latin caput (“head”).

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. A close-fitting head covering either without a brim or with a peak.
  2. A special head covering to indicate rank, occupation etc.
  3. An academic mortarboard
  4. A protective cover or seal
  5. A crown for covering a tooth
  6. The summit of a mountain etc.
  7. An artificial upper limit or ceiling
  8. The top part of a mushroom
  9. (cricket) The cap worn by players as protection from the sun; the cap awarded to a player when first selected to play for a side
  10. A small amount of gunpowder in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun
    Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
  11. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives
    He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
  12. (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
    • 2001: Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon
      Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?
  13. (soccer) An international appearance
    Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.<
  14. (finance) An upper limit on the interest rate on an adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) or a floating-rate note (FRN) or an OTC, European, call option (derivative contract) with an interest rate as basis; It's used to defend from excessive interest rate increases. Opposite of a floor.
Wikipedia has an article on: Interest rate cap

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Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
head covering
  • Arabic: قبعة (qúbʕa) f.
  • Bulgarian: шапка bg(bg) f.
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 鸭舌帽 cmn(cmn), 鴨舌帽 cmn(cmn) (yāshémào), 太陽帽 cmn(cmn), 太阳帽 cmn(cmn) (tàiyángmào), 棒球帽 cmn(cmn) (bàngqiúmào), 帽子 cmn(cmn) (màozi)
  • Czech: čepice cs(cs) f.
  • Dutch: pet nl(nl) m.
  • Esperanto: ĉapo eo(eo)
  • Finnish: lakki fi(fi)
  • French: bonnet fr(fr) m., casquette fr(fr) f., (Quebec) tuque fr(fr) f.
  • German: Mütze de(de) f.
  • Hungarian: sapka hu(hu)
  • Italian: cuffia it(it) f.
  • Japanese: 帽子 ja(ja) (bōshi)
  • Korean: 모자 (moja)
  • Kurdish: که‌ڵاو
  • Latvian: cepure lv(lv) f.
  • Norwegian: skyggelue no(no)
  • Polish: czapka pl(pl) f.
  • Portuguese: boné pt(pt) m., barrete pt(pt) m. (1); quepe pt(pt) m. (2)
  • Quechua: p'acha chuku qu(qu)
  • Russian: кепка ru(ru) (képka) f., шапка ru(ru) (šápka) f.
  • Scottish Gaelic: ceap gd(gd) m.
  • Slovene: čepica sl(sl) f.
  • Spanish: gorro es(es) m. (without peak), gorra es(es) f. (with peak), cofia es(es) f. (nurse, waitress)
  • Swahili: kofia sw(sw)
  • Swedish: mössa sv(sv) c., keps sv(sv) c.
  • Vietnamese: mũ lưỡi trai vi(vi)
  • Volapük: luhät vo(vo)
head-covering to indicate rank etc.
academic mortarboard
protective cover or seal
  • Japanese: 蓋 ja(ja) (futa)
  • Russian: колпачок ru(ru) (kolpačók) m., крышечка ru(ru) (krýšečka) f.
crown covering a tooth
  • Japanese: 被せ ja(ja) (kabuse)
  • Russian: коронка ru(ru) (korónka) f.
summit of a mountain
  • Japanese: 頂上 ja(ja) (chōjō)
artificial upper limit
top part of a mushroom
  • Bulgarian: гугла bg(bg) f.
  • Finnish: lakki fi(fi)
  • German: Hut de(de) m.
  • Japanese: かさ ja(ja) (kasa)
  • Russian: шляпка ru(ru) (šljáka) f.
gunpowder charge for a toy gun
  • Finnish: nalli fi(fi)
  • Russian: пистон ru(ru) (pistón) m.
small amount of explosive used as detonator
  • Russian: капсюль ru(ru) (kápsjul') m.
bullet
soccer: international appearance
  • Finnish: maaottelu fi(fi)
cricket cap
  • Finnish: krikettilakki fi(fi)
See also

Verb

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped) (transitive)

  1. To cover or seal with a cap
  2. To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
  3. To lie over or on top of something
  4. To surpass or outdo
  5. To set an upper limit on something
  6. (cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side
  7. (slang) To shoot someone
    If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.
Translations
To cover or seal with a cap
  • Bulgarian: , покривам bg(bg)
To lie over or on top of something
To surpass or outdo
  • Bulgarian: превъзхождам bg(bg)

Etymology 2

From capitalization, by shortening

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. (finance) Capitalization.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From capital, by shortening

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. (informal) An uppercase letter
Translations
informal: uppercase letter
  • Bulgarian: главна буква bg(bg)

Verb

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

  1. (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin caput. Compare also French personne (which can mean either “person” or “nobody”).

Noun

cap m. (plural caps)

  1. head
  2. boss, chief, leader
  3. cape (piece of land)

Determiner

cap inv.

  1. no, not any
  2. (in questions and suppositions) any

Pronoun

cap

  1. none
  2. (in questions and suppositions) any

Preposition

cap

  1. towards, to

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From caber (q.v.).

Verb

cap

  1. Third-person singular present indicative form of cabre.
  2. Second-person singular imperative form of cabre.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

cap m. (plural caps)

  1. (geography) cape
  2. (archaic) head
  3. (nautical) heading
  4. (Quebec, geography) cap (summit of a mountain)

Anagrams

Indonesian

Noun

cap

  1. seal
  2. stamp

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin caput.

Pronunciation

Noun

cap m. (plural caps)

  1. head (of the body)
  2. cape, headland

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin *capum < caput.

Pronunciation

Noun

cap n. (plural capete)

  1. head

Declension

declension of cap
singular plural
gender n. indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative un cap capul niște capete capetele
genitive/dative unui cap capului unor capete capetelor
vocative — — — —

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Slovak

Noun

cap m. (plural capy, genitive capa)declension pattern chlap for singular, dub for plural

  1. a male goat

Derived terms

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