1. a close-fitting covering for the head, usually of soft supple material and having no visor or brim.
2. a brimless head covering with a visor, as a baseball cap.
3. a mobcap.
4. a headdress denoting rank, occupation, religious order, or the like: a nurse's cap.
5. mortarboard (def. 2).
6. the symbol ∩, used to indicate the intersection of two sets.
7. anything resembling or suggestive of a covering for the head in shape, use, or position: a cap on a bottle.
8. summit; top; apex; acme.
9. a maximum limit, as one set by law or agreement on prices, wages, spending, etc., during a certain period of time; ceiling: a 9 percent cap on pay increases for this year.
10. the pileus of a mushroom.
11. calyptra (def. 1).
12. a short, horizontal beam at the top of a prop for supporting part of a roof.
13. a percussion cap.
14. a selection for a representative team, usually for a national squad.
15. a noise-making device for toy pistols, made of a small quantity of explosive wrapped in paper or other thin material.
16. a fitting of metal placed over the head of a spar, as a mast or bowsprit, and having a collar for securing an additional spar.
17. a new tread applied to a worn pneumatic tire.
18. a capital.
19. a metal plate placed over the iron of a plane to break the shavings as they rise.
20. capping fee.
21. a contraceptive diaphragm.

22. to provide or cover with or as if with a cap.
23. to complete.
24. follow up with something as good or better; surpass; outdo: to cap one joke with another.
25. to serve as a cap, covering, or top to; overlie.
26. to put a maximum limit on (prices, wages, spending, etc.).
27. to select (a player) for a representative team.

28. to hunt with a hunting club of which one is not a member, on payment of a capping fee.

29. humbly; in supplication: He went to his father cap in hand and begged his forgiveness.
30. to pursue as being a potential mate.

1. a capital letter.
2. uppercase: Please set the underlined in caps.

3. to write or print in capital letters, or make an initial letter a capital; capitalize.

1. a capsule, especially of a narcotic drug.

1. Civil Air Patrol.
2. a coordinated system established in 1960 by the European Economic Community for stabilizing prices of farm products of its member countries.
3. computer-aided publishing.
4. convertible adjustable preferred (stock).

1. (in prescriptions) let the patient take.

1. chapter.

1. capacity.
2. capital.
3. capitalize.
4. capitalized.
5. capital letter.
6. foolscap.

1. a covering for the head, esp a small close-fitting one made of cloth or knitted
2. such a covering serving to identify the wearer's rank, occupation, etc
3. something that protects or covers, esp a small lid or cover
4. an uppermost surface or part
• See percussion cap
• a small amount of explosive enclosed in paper and used in a toy gun
6. sport, mainly British
• an emblematic hat or beret given to someone chosen for a representative team
• a player chosen for such a team
7. the upper part of a pedestal in a classical order
8. the roof of a windmill, sometimes in the form of a dome
9. the pileus of a mushroom or toadstool
10. hunting
• money contributed to the funds of a hunt by a follower who is neither a subscriber nor a farmer, in return for a day's hunting
• a collection taken at a meet of hounds, esp for a charity
11. anatomy
• the natural enamel covering a tooth
• an artificial protective covering for a tooth
12. See Dutch cap (def. 2)
13. an upper financial limit
14. a mortarboard when worn with a gown at an academic ceremony (esp in the phrase cap and gown)
15. meteorol
• the cloud covering the peak of a mountain
• the transient top of detached clouds above an increasing cumulus
16. humbly, as when asking a favour
17. the allusion or criticism seems to be appropriate to a particular person
18. (of a woman) to be determined to win as a husband or lover

19. to cover, as with a cap
20. to outdo; excel
21. to provide the finishing touch
22. to select (a player) for a representative team
23. to seal off (an oil or gas well)
24. to impose an upper limit on the level of increase of (a tax, such as the council tax)
25. to ask (hunt followers) for a cap
26. to award a degree to

1. Common Agricultural Policy: (in the EU) the system for supporting farm incomes by maintaining agricultural prices at agreed levels

1. capital
2. capitalize
3. capitalization
4. capital letter

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