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Cap

noun

1.

A tight-fitting headdress.

2.

A top (as for a bottle).

3.

A mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive. Synonyms: detonating device, detonator.

4.

Something serving as a cover or protection.

5.

A fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom. Synonym: pileus.

6.

A protective covering that is part of a plant. Synonym: hood.

7.

An upper limit on what is allowed. Synonyms: ceiling, roof. "There was a roof on salaries" , "They established a cap for prices"

8.

(dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth. Synonyms: crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown.

9.

The upper part of a column that supports the entablature. Synonyms: capital, chapiter.

verb

(past & past part. capped; pres. part. capping)

1.

Lie at the top of. Synonym: crest.

2.

Restrict the number or amount of.

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"Cap" Quotes from Famous Books

... set the table. Elizabeth looked alternately at her and at the tea-kettle; both almost equally strange; she rather took a fancy to both. Certainly to the former. Her gown was spare, shewing that means were so, and her cap was the plainest of muslin caps, without lace or bedecking; yet in the quiet ordering of gown and cap and the neat hair, a quiet and ordered mind was almost confessed; and not many glances at the calm mouth and grave brow and thoughtful eye, ...

— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner

... the past has handed down to our time, as the hot-blooded Communists of Paris seemed to be inclined to do in the late crisis. The dress of these agitators speak nothing about bloody revolution as did the "red cap" and slouch hat of the political reformers of ...

— The Youthful Wanderer - An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany • George H. Heffner

... night I knew that a stealthy foot had gone past my door. I rose and threw a mantle round me; I put on my head my cap of fur; I took the tempered blade in my hands; then crept out into the dark, and followed. Ul-Jabal carried a small lantern which revealed him to me. My feet were bare, but he wore felted slippers, which to my unfailing ear were not utterly noiseless. He descended the stairs to the ...

— Prince Zaleski • M.P. Shiel

... cracked walls are bare and not clean. In one of the beds are two children, sleeping soundly, and on the foot of it is a middle-aged woman, in a soiled woolen gown with a thin figured shawl drawn about her shoulders, a dirty cap half concealing her frowzy hair; she looks tired and worn and sleepy. On the other bed lies a girl of twenty years, a woman in experience. The kerosene lamp on the stand at the head of the bed casts a spectral light on her flushed face, and the thin arms that are restlessly thrown ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... morning's sun sees thousands who pass whistling to their toil. But Villon was the "mauvais pauvre" defined by Victor Hugo, and, in its English expression, so admirably stereotyped by Dickens. He was the first wicked sans-culotte. He is the man of genius with the moleskin cap. He is mighty pathetic and beseeching here in the street, but I would not go down a dark road with him ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

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