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3-letter words (2 found)

CAP,PAC,

2-letter words (1 found)

PA,

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Definitions and meaning of cap

cap

Alternative forms

  • (a lie or exaggeration): 🧢

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kæp/, [kʰæp]
  • 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.
  12. (slang, originally African-American Vernacular) A lie or exaggeration.
  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. (Appalachia) Popcorn.
Derived terms
  • (general terms): cap-a-pie, cap-apée, capless, caplike, Monmouth Cap (hamlet), uncapped
  • (head covering): Ascot cap, bald cap, ballcap, baseball cap, bathing cap, black cap, bouffant cap, Breton cap, bump cap, cap and gown, cap badge, cap in hand, cap money, cap of liberty, cap of maintenance, cap over the windmill, China cap, cloth cap, coon-skin cap, cunt cap, Davy Crockett cap, deerslayer cap, deerstalker cap, dunce cap, dunsel cap, Dutch cap, face cap, Fanny Murray cap, Gandhi cap, gimme cap, feather in one's cap, fitted cap, flat cap, fool's cap, fore-and-aft cap, forage cap, friar's cap, half cap, hand-in-cap, huffcap, hunting cap, if the cap fits, Juliet cap, knit cap, liberty cap, longshoreman's cap, lounging cap, Mickey Mouse cap, mob cap, monkey cap, Monmouth cap, muffin cap, nose cap, overseas cap, Phrygian cap, propeller cap, rally cap, ratting cap, redcap, sea cap, service cap, shingle cap, shower cap, side cap, ski cap, skullcap, smoking cap, stocking cap, swim cap, swimming cap, smoking cap, thinking cap, throw one's cap over the windmill, trencher cap, watch cap, watermelon cap, whitecap, widow's cap, wig cap, wishing cap
  • (protective cover or seal): bottle cap, bow cap, cap flashing, cervical cap, crown cap, distributor cap, dust cap, Dutch cap, filler cap, hubcap, jimmy cap, lens cap, Noddy cap, petrol cap, pull-off cap, root cap, screw cap
  • (artificial upper limit): cap and trade, interest rate cap, level cap, salary cap, voting cap
  • (small amount of explosive used as detonator): bust a cap, cap and ball, percussion cap, pop a cap in someone's ass, snap cap
  • (something covering the top or end of a thing): 5′ cap, cap carbonate, cap cloud, cap nut, cap product, cap screw, cap sheet, cap sleeve, cap snatching, cap stealing, cross-cap, end cap, ice cap, kneecap, legal cap, nose cap, polar cap, ribeye cap, rump cap, sirloin cap, snowcap, spherical cap, toecap, turncap
  • (head): cradle cap, fuddlecap, madcap
  • (toy): cap gun, cap pistol
  • (names of mushrooms): candy cap, death cap, inky cap, milk-cap, panther cap, powder cap, saffron milk cap ugly milk-cap, waxy cap
  • (other species): elf-cap moss, jockey's cap, Turk's cap lily, Turk's cap
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 (or reach) 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.
  9. (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
    Synonym: pop a cap into
  11. (intransitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To lie; to tell a lie.
  12. (transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.
  13. (transitive, obsolete) To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
  14. To deprive of a cap.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From capitalization, by shortening.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. (finance) Capitalization.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From capital, by shortening.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. (informal) An uppercase or capital letter.
Derived terms
  • drop cap
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) A capacitor.
    Parasitic caps.
    I had to replace the caps in that thing to get it to work again.

Etymology 5

Shortening of capture.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.
    Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
Derived terms
  • mo-cap

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.
  2. (transitive, video games) To take possession of an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.
Derived terms
  • mo-cap

Etymology 6

Clipping of capsule

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. (slang) A capsule of a drug.
Derived terms
  • cap up

Etymology 7

Shortening of capitalist.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. (colloquial) A capitalist.
Derived terms
  • an-cap
  • anticap

Etymology 8

Shortening of capillary.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. capillary
Derived terms
  • cap refill

Etymology 9

From Scots cap, an alteration of earlier cop, from Middle English cop, from Old English copp (“a cup, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.

Anagrams

  • ACP, APC, CPA, PAC, 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

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkap]
  • Rhymes: -ap

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin capus (“head, chief”), from Latin caput (“head, etc.”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput. Compare Occitan cap. Compare also French personne (which can mean either "person" or "nobody").

Noun

cap m (plural caps)

  1. (anatomy) head
  2. boss, chief, leader
    cap d'estat ― head of state
  3. (geography) cape (piece of land)
  4. (heraldry) chief
  5. end
    cap de setmana ― weekend
Derived terms

Determiner

cap (invariable)

  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)
  2. anyone (in questions and suppositions)
    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 corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cap

  1. inflection of cabre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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, 2024
  • “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.

Chinese

Etymology 1

From English cap.

Pronunciation

Noun

cap (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. Used in cap帽 (“cap; hat”).
  2. upper limit; upper bound

Etymology 2

Clipping of English capture.

Pronunciation

Verb

cap (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. to screenshot or record
    cap低 [Cantonese]  ―  kep1 dai1 [Jyutping]  ―  to save a screenshot
  2. to obtain or accumulate money
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Clipping of English capacitor.

Pronunciation

Noun

cap (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. capacitor (Classifier: 粒 c)
Derived terms

See also

  • 反cap

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
    cap stratégique ― strategic course
  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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • PAC

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃap]
  • Hyphenation: cap

Etymology 1

  • Ultimately from Indo-Aryan. Compare Hindi छाप (chāp), Gujarati છાપ (chāp), Bengali ছাপ (chap), English chop all meaning stamp, seal.
  • Probably become Chinese 劄 (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. (figurative) characteristic.
    Synonyms: ciri, sifat
Alternative forms
  • cop: nonstandard Indonesian, standard Malay
Derived terms
Related 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, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Noun

cap

  1. seal, stamp

Lashi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃap/, /t͡ɕap/

Classifier

cap

  1. Classifier for fruit.

References

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎[13], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Malay

Etymology

From English chop (“An official stamp or seal, as in China and India”), from Indo-Aryan, either Hindi छाप (chāp), Gujarati છાપ (chāp), Bengali ছাপ (chap) all meaning stamp, seal. Doublet of cop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃap]
  • Rhymes: -ap

Noun

cap

  1. seal; stamp
  2. brand

Derived terms

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

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. leader, chief, mastermind
  3. cape, headland

Derived terms

  • cap d'estat
  • cap de còla

Related terms

  • acabar

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sap/
  • Rhymes: -ap
  • Syllabification: cap

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Romanian țap, possibly from Albanian cjap.

Noun

cap m animal

  1. billy-goat
  2. buck (male of an antlered animal)
  3. (colloquial, derogatory) lecherous man
  4. (colloquial) bearded man
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

cap

  1. sound of a violent grabbing of someone or something
    Synonym: łap

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cap

  1. second-person singular imperative of capić

Further reading

  • cap in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cap in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkap/
  • Rhymes: -àp

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput. Plural form capete from Latin capita. Compare the doublet șef, borrowed from French.

Noun

cap n (plural capete)

  1. head
Declension
Derived terms
  • căpetenie
  • căpos
  • căpușă
  • în ruptul capului
Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French cap.

Noun

cap n (plural capuri)

  1. cape (headland)
Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡sap]

Noun

cap m anim (genitive singular capa, nominative plural capy, genitive plural capov, feminine koza), declension pattern chlap for singular, dub for plural

  1. a male goat, he-goat, billygoat

Declension


Derived terms

  • capí

Further reading

  • “cap”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Tyap

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃɑ́p/

Noun

cap

  1. fur

Source: wiktionary.org