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cap
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kæp/, [k?æp]
- Hyphenation: cap
- Rhymes: -æp
Etymology 1
From Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of cape, chape, and cope.
Noun
cap (plural caps)
- A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
- Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:headwear
- A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
- An academic mortarboard.
- A protective cover or seal.
- A crown for covering a tooth.
- The summit of a mountain, etc.
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
- Antonym: floor
- The top part of a mushroom.
- (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
- A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
- (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?
- 2001, Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon
- (slang) A lie; a liar. Common in the phrase no cap, meaning truthful.
- (sports) A place on a national team; an international appearance.
- (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
- (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
- (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
- Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- (nautical) 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.
- (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
- A large size of writing paper.
- (African-American Vernacular) A lie or exaggeration.
Derived terms
- (head covering): baseball cap, bathing cap, cloth cap, cunt cap, dunsel cap, swim cap, swimming cap, thinking cap
- (protective cover or seal): crown cap, filler cap
- (artificial upper limit): interest rate cap
- (small amount of explosive used as detonator): percussion cap, pop a cap in someone's ass
- (something covering the top or end of a thing): ice cap, kneecap
- (head): fuddlecap, madcap
- (toy): cap gun, cap pistol
Translations
See also
- lid
- set one's cap at
Verb
cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)
- (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.
- (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
- (transitive) To lie over or on top of something.
- (transitive) To surpass or outdo.
- (transitive) To set an upper limit on something.
- (transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.
- (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
- (intransitive, slang) To lie.
- (transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.
- (transitive, obsolete) To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
- To deprive of a cap.
- (African-American Vernacular) To tell a lie.
Derived terms
- uncap
Translations
Etymology 2
From capitalization, by shortening.
Noun
cap (plural caps)
- (finance) Capitalization.
Derived terms
- market cap
Etymology 3
From capital, by shortening.
Noun
cap (plural caps)
- (informal) An uppercase or capital letter.
Translations
Verb
cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)
- (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.
Etymology 4
From capacitor, by shortening.
Noun
cap (plural caps)
- (electronics) capacitor
- Parasitic caps.
Etymology 5
Shortening of capture.
Noun
cap (plural caps)
- (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.
- Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
Verb
cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)
- (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
Etymology 6
Clipping of capsule
Noun
cap (plural caps)
- (slang) A capsule of a drug.
- 2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive
- 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.
- 2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive
Derived terms
- cap up
Etymology 7
Scots [Term?], probably from Old English copp (“a cup”).
Noun
cap (plural caps)
- (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
Anagrams
- ACP, APC, CPA, PAC, PCA, Pac, Pac.
Aromanian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput. Plural form capiti from Latin capita. Compare Romanian cap.
Noun
cap n (plural capiti/capite)
- head
Derived terms
- cãpic
- cãpos
Related terms
See also
- capã
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?kap/
- Rhymes: -ap
Etymology 1
From Old Occitan cap, from Vulgar Latin capus (“head, chief”), from Latin caput (“head, etc.”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Compare also French personne (which can mean either "person" or "nobody").
Noun
cap m (plural caps)
- (anatomy) head
- boss, chief, leader
- cape (piece of land)
- (heraldry) chief
- end
Derived terms
Determiner
cap (indeclinable)
- no, not any (usually with no or other negative particle)
- any (in questions and suppositions)
Pronoun
cap
- none, not one (usually with no or other negative particle), example no n'hi ha cap de maduixa ("there is not any strawberry flavoured one")
- anyone, (in questions and suppositions), example que en falta cap? ("is there anyone missing?")
Preposition
cap
- towards, to
Derived terms
- cap a
- capdamunt
- capdavall
- capdavant
Related terms
- acabar
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
cap
- third-person singular present indicative form of cabre
- second-person singular imperative form of cabre
Further reading
- “cap” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cap” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “cap” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cap” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Occitan cap, from Latin caput. Doublet of chef.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kap/
Noun
cap m (plural caps)
- (geography) cape
- (archaic) head
- (nautical) heading
- (figuratively) goal, direction, course
- Synonym: cible
- (Quebec, geography) cap (summit of a mountain)
Derived terms
- cap glacé
- de pied en cap
Further reading
- “cap” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- PAC
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?t??ap]
- Hyphenation: cap
Etymology 1
- Ultimately from Indo-Aryan. Compare Hindi ??? (ch?p), Gujarati ??? (ch?p), Bengali ??? (chap), all meaning stamp, seal.
- Probably become Chinese ? (zhá, “letter, brief note”) through phono-semantic matching.
Noun
cap (first-person possessive capku, second-person possessive capmu, third-person possessive capnya)
- seal, stamp.
- Synonyms: stempel, tera
- record.
- Synonym: rekaman
- printing.
- Synonyms: cetak, cetakan
- trademark.
- Synonyms: merk dagang, etiket
- (figuratively) characteristic.
- Synonyms: ciri, sifat
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic.
Noun
cap (first-person possessive capku, second-person possessive capmu, third-person possessive capnya)
- sound of tongue smacking
- Synonym: kecap
Further reading
- “cap” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Lashi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??ap/, /t??ap/
Classifier
cap
- Classifier for fruit.
References
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?[11], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Middle English
Noun
cap
- Alternative form of cappe
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan cap.
Noun
cap m (plural caps)
- head
- 1369-1400, Jean Froissart, Chroniques
- Armez de pié en cap
- Armed from head to toe
- Armez de pié en cap
- 1369-1400, Jean Froissart, Chroniques
Descendants
- French: cap
- ? English: cape
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan cap, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kap/
Noun
cap m (plural caps)
- head (the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs)
- head (leader, chief, mastermind)
- cape, headland
Derived terms
- cap d'estat
Related terms
- acabar
Polish
Etymology
From Romanian ?ap, itself possibly from Albanian cjap.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?sap/
Noun
cap m anim
- billy-goat
- buck (male of an antlered animal)
Declension
Derived terms
- capi?
Verb
cap
- second-person singular imperative of capi?
Further reading
- cap in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- cap in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Plural form capete from Latin capita. Compare the doublet ?ef, borrowed from French.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kap/
Noun
cap n (plural capete)
- head
Declension
Derived terms
- c?petenie
- c?pos
- c?pu??
Related terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French cap.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kap/
Noun
cap n (plural capuri)
- cape (headland)
Declension
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?sap/
Noun
cap m (genitive singular capa, nominative plural capy, genitive plural capov), declension pattern chlap for singular, dub for plural
- a male goat
Declension
Derived terms
- capí
See also
- koza f
Further reading
- cap in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
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captain
English
Etymology
From Middle English capitain, capteyn, from Old French capitaine, from Late Latin capit?neus, from Latin caput (“head”) (English cap). Doublet of chieftain, also from Old French.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kæp.t?n/, /-t?n/
- (US, General Australian) IPA(key): /?kæp.t?n/
- (naval, informal) IPA(key): /?kæp.?n/, [?kæpn?], [?kæpm?]
Noun
captain (plural captains)
- A chief or leader.
- 1526, The Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 2:
- For out of the shal come a captaine, whych shall govern my people israhel.
- 1929, Rudyard Kipling, "The English Way":
- Stand up-stand up, Northumberland! / I bid you answer true, / If England's King has under his hand / A Captain as good as you?
- 1526, The Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 2:
- The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
- An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
- "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there. […]."
- A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
- A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to an Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
- One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
- 2000, Gregory Allen Howard, Remember the Titans
- Captain's supposed to be the leader, right?
- 2000, Gregory Allen Howard, Remember the Titans
- The leader of a group of workers.
- The head boy of a school.
- A maître d', a headwaiter.
- 1977, Don Felder, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey, lyricists, "Hotel California",
- So I called up the Captain, "Please bring me my wine." / He said: "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969."
- 1977, Don Felder, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey, lyricists, "Hotel California",
- (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
Synonyms
- (leader of a group of workers): supervisor, straw boss, foreman
- (commander of a vessel): skipper, master
- (pilot in command): pilot, pilot in command
- (military rank): CAPT, CAPT., Capt., Capt, CPT (abbreviation)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: kapten
- ? Irish: captaen
Translations
Verb
captain (third-person singular simple present captains, present participle captaining, simple past and past participle captained)
- (intransitive) To act as captain
- (transitive) To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- anti-cap, capitan, patican
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