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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)

1. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:headwear

2. A special hat 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.

   Antonym: floor

8. The top part of a mushroom.
9. (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.

10. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.

11. (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?

12. (slang) A lie; a liar. Common in the phrase no cap, meaning truthful.
13. (sports) A place on a national team; an international appearance.
14. (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
15. (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
16. (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
17. (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.

18. Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
19. (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.
20. (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
21. A large size of writing paper.

22. (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)

1. (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.
2. (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
3. (transitive) To lie over or on top of something.
4. (transitive) To surpass or outdo.
5. (transitive) To set an upper limit on something.

6. (transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.

7. (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side.
8. (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.

9. (intransitive, slang) To lie.
10. (transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.

11. (transitive, obsolete) To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
12. To deprive of a cap.
13. (African-American Vernacular) To tell a lie.

Derived terms

• uncap

Translations

Etymology 2

From capitalization, by shortening.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. (finance) Capitalization.

Derived terms

• market cap

Etymology 3

From capital, by shortening.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. (informal) An uppercase or capital letter.

Translations

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.

Etymology 4

From capacitor, by shortening.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. (electronics) capacitor

   Parasitic caps.

Etymology 5

Shortening of capture.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. (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)

1. (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.

Etymology 6

Clipping of capsule

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. (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.

Derived terms

• cap up

Etymology 7

Scots [Term?], probably from Old English copp (“a cup”).

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. (anatomy) head
2. boss, chief, leader

3. cape (piece of land)
4. (heraldry) chief
5. end

Derived terms

Determiner

cap (indeclinable)

1. no, not any (usually with no or other negative particle)
2. any (in questions and suppositions)

Pronoun

cap

1. 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")
2. anyone, (in questions and suppositions), example que en falta cap? ("is there anyone missing?")

Preposition

cap

1. towards, to

Derived terms

• cap a
• capdamunt
• capdavall
• capdavant

Related terms

• acabar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cap

1. third-person singular present indicative form of cabre
2. 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)

1. (geography) cape
2. (archaic) head
3. (nautical) heading
4. (figuratively) goal, direction, course

   Synonym: cible

5. (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)

1. seal, stamp.

   Synonyms: stempel, tera

2. record.

   Synonym: rekaman

3. printing.

   Synonyms: cetak, cetakan

4. trademark.

   Synonyms: merk dagang, etiket

5. (figuratively) characteristic.

   Synonyms: ciri, sifat

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

cap (first-person possessive capku, second-person possessive capmu, third-person possessive capnya)

1. 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

1. Classifier for fruit.

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[11], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Middle English

Noun

cap

1. Alternative form of cappe

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan cap.

Noun

cap m (plural caps)

1. head
   • 1369-1400, Jean Froissart, Chroniques

     Armez de pié en cap

     Armed from head to toe

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)

1. head (the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs)
2. head (leader, chief, mastermind)
3. 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

1. billy-goat
2. buck (male of an antlered animal)

Declension

Derived terms

• capi?

Verb

cap

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. a male goat

Declension

Derived terms

• capí

See also

• koza f

Further reading

• cap in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæd/
• Hyphenation: pad
• Rhymes: -æd

Etymology 1

1554, "bundle of straw to lie on", probably from Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
2. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
3. A soft, or small, cushion.
4. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
5. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
6. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
7. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
8. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
9. A sanitary napkin.
10. (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
11. (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
12. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
13. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
14. A keypad.
15. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
16. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord"
17. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
18. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.

    Synonym: synth pad

19. (US, slang) A bed.
20. (colloquial) A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
21. (Britain, slang) A prison cell.
22. (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
23. A mousepad.
24. (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
25. (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
    • 1875, William Clark Russell, Jilted – Or My Uncle's Scheme

      let us at least trust that the hair-pins will do their duty, and maintain the respectability of passion by holding the pads and puffs and frizettes in their proper places.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• synth pad

Translations

Verb

pad (third-person singular simple present pads, present participle padding, simple past and past participle padded)

1. (transitive) To stuff.
2. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
3. (transitive) To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.

4. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.

5. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

Derived terms

• well-padded

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pade, padde, from Old English padde, from Proto-Germanic *padd? (“toad”). Cognate with Dutch pad, German Low German Pad (“toad”), dialectal German Padde, Danish padde, Swedish padda, Icelandic padda (“toad”), and possibly to English paddle.

Alternative forms

• padde

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A toad.

Derived terms

• paddock
• padstool
• shelpad

Etymology 3

From Dutch pad or Middle Low German pat (“path”). Doublet of path.

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. (Britain, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track. See footpad.
2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

     an abbot on an ambling pad

3. (Britain, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
   • 1720, John Gay, "Fables", in Poems on Several Occasions

     A Pad came pacing down the way :
     The Cur, with never-ceasing tongue ,
     Upon the passing trav'ler sprung

Derived terms

• on the pad

Etymology 4

Perhaps an alteration of ped.

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.

Etymology 5

Probably partly from Middle Low German [Term?], partly imitative. Some senses possibly influenced by pad (“soft part of an animal's foot”, noun).

Verb

pad (third-person singular simple present pads, present participle padding, simple past and past participle padded)

1. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
   • 1727, William Somervile, The Fortune Hunter

     Padding the streets for half a crown.

2. (intransitive) To travel on foot.
3. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXII

     Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]

4. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out...

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
   • 1689, Cotton Mather, Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions

     Their chief Argument is, That they never saw any Witches, therefore there are none. Just as if you or I should say, We never met with any Robbers on the Road, therefore there never was any Padding there.

Translations

Etymology 6

Probably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above.

Interjection

pad

1. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.

   I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.

Translations

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

Translations

Derived terms

• padless

References

• Pad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ADP, APD, DPA, PDA, dap

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?t]

Noun

pad (plural paaie, diminutive paadjie)

1. path; way; street

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/
• Hyphenation: pad
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pat, from Old Dutch path, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). Cognate with English path, West Frisian paad and German Pfad.

Noun

pad n (plural paden, diminutive paadje n)

1. path (narrow road, usually unpaved)

Derived terms

• bergpad
• bospad
• duinpad
• fietspad
• gangpad
• grindpad
• hazenpad
• kerkpad
• kiezelpad
• modderpad
• olifantenpad
• padvinder
• ruiterpad
• schelpenpad
• tuinpad
• voetpad
• wandelpad
• zandpad
• zijpad

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pad

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch padde, pedde, from Proto-Germanic *padd? (“toad”). Cognate with Old English padde (compare English paddock), Old Norse padda (Swedish padda, Danish/Norwegian padde).

Noun

pad f (plural padden, diminutive padje n)

1. toad (an amphibian of the order Anura similar to a frog with shorter legs and more ragged skin)

Derived terms

• bruine pad
• donderpad
• gewone pad
• groene pad
• knoflookpad
• paddenstoel
• paddentrek
• reuzenpad
• rugstreeppad
• schildpad
• Surinaamse pad
• vuurbuikpad
• vuurpad

Descendants

• Afrikaans: padda

Etymology 3

Noun

pad c (plural padden, diminutive padje n)

1. (cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axle of the wheel; dropout.

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian pod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?d]
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

pad (plural padok)

1. bench
2. (education) desk (of students in school, traditionally built together with the seats)

   Synonym: iskolapad

3. (religion) pew (in a church)
4. (law) dock (of the defendant, in court), stand (of a witness, in court)
5. (dialectal) attic, loft

   Synonym: padlás

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• pad in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pâ?d/

Noun

p?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. fall

Declension

Related terms

• p?sti

Volapük

Noun

pad (nominative plural pads)

1. page

Declension