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      cap
      noun
      A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
      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.
      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.
      (slang, originally African-American Vernacular) A lie or exaggeration.
      (sports) A place on a national team; an international appearance.
      (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.
      (Appalachia) Popcorn.
      (finance) Capitalization.
      (informal) A capital letter.
      (electronics) A capacitor.
      (slang) A capsule of a drug.
      (colloquial) A capitalist.
      (anatomy) A capillary.
      A caption.
      A nickname for a man generally.
      A nickname for the captain of a team, ship, etc.
      (colloquial) Clipping of capture; a recording or screenshot. [An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.]
      (medicine) Initialism of community-acquired pneumonia.
      Initialism of combat air patrol. [(military, aviation) A patrolling force of fighter aircraft tasked with covering and screening a friendly asset (such as an aircraft carrier or a flight of bombers) in order to defend it from incoming hostile aircraft.]
      (US) Initialism of Civil Air Patrol.
      Initialism of conservation action plan.
      Initialism of catabolite activator protein.
      (computing theory) Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem. [Local coherence.]
      Initialism of change acceleration process.
      (European Union) Initialism of Common Agricultural Policy.
      Initialism of colors and placements.
      Initialism of Colleague Assistance Program.
      (astrology, informal) Clipping of Capricorn. [(astronomy) Synonym of Capricornus (constellation).]
      (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
      (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
      (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
      verb
      (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 (or reach) an upper limit on something.
      (transitive, figurative) To conclude; 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, originally African-American Vernacular) To lie; to tell a lie.
      (transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.
      To deprive of a cap.
      (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.
      (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
      (transitive, video games) To capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.
      (transitive, intransitive, video games) To capitulate (cause to capitulate) an opponent.
      (transitive, obsolete) To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
      Roots
      caputcap- · Latin · head
      Synonyms for cap
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