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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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maximum
English
Etymology
Via French from Latin maximum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mæks?m?m/
- Hyphenation: max?i?mum
Noun
maximum (plural maxima or maximums)
- The highest limit
- P. Colquhoun
- Good legislation is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness, and the minimum of misery.
- P. Colquhoun
- (mathematics) The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function
- (mathematical analysis) An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set
- (statistics) The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution
- (colloquial, snooker) A 147 break; the highest possible break
- (colloquial, darts) A score of 180 with three darts
- (colloquial, cricket) A scoring shot for 6 runs
Usage notes
- Maxima is the more common plural, especially for the technical senses.
Synonyms
- max
Antonyms
- minimum
Hypernyms
- (statistics): measure of location
- extremum
Translations
Adjective
maximum (not comparable)
- To the highest degree.
- Synonym: maximal
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
- supremum
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?maks?mum]
Noun
maximum n
- maximum
Declension
Antonyms
- minimum
Further reading
- maximum in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- maximum in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin maximum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?k.si?m?m/
- Hyphenation: ma?xi?mum
Noun
maximum n (plural maxima or maximums, diminutive maximumpje n)
- maximum
Antonyms
- minimum
Derived terms
- maximumleeftijd
- maximumloon
- maximumsnelheid
Related terms
- maximaal
Descendants
- Afrikaans: maksimum
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mak.si.m?m/
Noun
maximum m (plural maxima or maximums)
- maximum
Derived terms
- grand maximum
- maximal
Further reading
- “maximum” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Adjective
maximum
- nominative neuter singular of maximus
- accusative masculine singular of maximus
- accusative neuter singular of maximus
- vocative neuter singular of maximus
Romanian
Etymology
From French maximum
Noun
maximum n (uncountable)
- maximum
Declension
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