different between cap vs wrapper
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
cap From the web:
- what capacity is disney world at
- what capacity is disneyland at
- what capacity is disneyland operating at
- what capacity is disney at
- what capacity is disneyland opening at
- what cap means
- what capacity is disney world at today
- what capital is located on the tropic of cancer
wrapper
English
Etymology
From Middle English wrappere, equivalent to wrap +? -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æp?/
- Homophone: rapper
- Hyphenation: wrap?per
- Rhymes: -æp?(r)
Noun
wrapper (plural wrappers)
- Something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping.
- An outer garment; a loose robe or dressing gown.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’:
- ‘Please to examine, at your leisure, the inner linings of the cuff of his left sleeve, and the several little packages which may be found in the somewhat capacious pockets of his embroidered morning wrapper.’
- 1855, Charles Dickens, The Holly-Tree
- It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’:
- One who, or that which, wraps.
- He proved to be a remarkably efficient wrapper of parcels.
- (object-oriented programming) A construct, such as a class or module, that serves to mediate access to another.
- We need a Perl wrapper for this C++ library.
Usage notes
- In the computing sense, wrapper is often used attributively: one can speak of a “wrapper class”, a “wrapper object”, a “wrapper function”, and so on. More broadly, one can speak of the “wrapper pattern”, which is a general term for the creation and use of such wrappers.
Synonyms
- (construct that mediates access): adapter
- wrapper class
- primitive wrapper class
Translations
Descendants
- ? Mmen: lapa
Anagrams
- prewrap
wrapper From the web:
- what wrappers to use for lumpia
- what wrapper to use for siomai
- what rapper has the most kids
- what rappers are bloods
- what rappers did trump pardon
- what rappers are crips
- what rapper died in 2020
- what rapper is respected for his assonance
you may also like
- cap vs wrapper
- uncorrupt vs virtuous
- agenda vs roster
- object vs proposal
- acquittal vs fulfilment
- obedience vs capitulation
- heedless vs disorderly
- resentment vs distress
- dishonourable vs knavish
- ineffectual vs abortive
- apathy vs inactivity
- obscure vs sphinxlike
- galvanise vs energise
- tenderhearted vs caring
- suggestive vs significant
- angry vs ominous
- negative vs antagonistic
- genial vs open
- exponent vs enthusiast
- accusation vs criticism