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Cap

noun

1.

A tight-fitting headdress.

2.

A top (as for a bottle).

3.

A mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive. Synonyms: detonating device, detonator.

4.

Something serving as a cover or protection.

5.

A fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom. Synonym: pileus.

6.

A protective covering that is part of a plant. Synonym: hood.

7.

An upper limit on what is allowed. Synonyms: ceiling, roof. "There was a roof on salaries" , "They established a cap for prices"

8.

(dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth. Synonyms: crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown.

9.

The upper part of a column that supports the entablature. Synonyms: capital, chapiter.

verb

(past & past part. capped; pres. part. capping)

1.

Lie at the top of. Synonym: crest.

2.

Restrict the number or amount of.

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"Cap" Quotes from Famous Books

... door open into a room like that on the left, but with a writing-desk instead of a cobbler's bench, and a bed, where Lindau sat propped up; with a coat over his shoulders and a skull-cap on his head, reading a book, from which he lifted his eyes to stare blankly over his spectacles at March. His hairy old breast showed through the night- shirt, which gaped apart; the stump of his left arm lay upon the book to keep ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... the book here, is a memorial of the friend—the friend of his school-days—the friend for life. He fixed this leaf on the student's cap in the green wood, when the vow of friendship was concluded for the whole of life. Where does he now live? The leaf is preserved; friendship forgotten. Here is a foreign conservatory-plant, too fine for the gardens of the North—it ...

— Pictures of Sweden • Hans Christian Andersen

... moment, leading by the hand his visitor of the afternoon, who stood startled and trembling at the sudden plunge into this scene of brilliant gayety. She was neatly dressed in gray, and wore the white cap of ...

— The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and - Selected Essays • Charles Waddell Chesnutt

... has chosen such pretty colors," interrupted Micheline, with a smile. "Pearl-gray and silver, and pink cap. ...

— Serge Panine, Complete • Georges Ohnet

... vii. cap. 13. (who reports it as a wonder worthy the chronicle, that Chrispinus Hilarus, praelata pompa, 'with open ostentation,' sacrificed in the capitol seventy-four of his children and children's children ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 • Various

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