Word Finder - cap

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A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.

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The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.

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A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.

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An academic mortarboard.

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A protective cover or seal.

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He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.

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A crown for covering a tooth.

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He had golden caps on his teeth.

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The summit of a mountain, etc.

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There was snow on the cap of the mountain.

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An artificial upper limit or ceiling.

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We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.

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The top part of a mushroom.

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(toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.

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Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.

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A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.

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He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.

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A bullet used to shoot someone.

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An international appearance.

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Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.

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The top, or uppermost part; the chief.

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A respectful uncovering of the head.

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The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.

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The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.

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the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate

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Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.

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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.

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A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.

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A large size of writing paper.

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flat cap; foolscap; legal cap

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A lie or exaggeration.

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no cap

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To cover or seal with a cap.

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To award a cap as a mark of distinction.

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To lie over or on top of something.

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To surpass or outdo.

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To set an upper limit on something.

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cap wages.

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To make something even more wonderful at the end.

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That really capped my day.

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To select a player to play for a specified side.

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To shoot (someone) with a firearm.

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In a school shooting, where some kid caps a bunch of other kids, where did he get the weapon? From a family member, probably their gun cabinet.

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To select to play for the national team.

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Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.

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To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.

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To deprive of a cap.

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To tell a lie.

She twisted the cap from the bottle and held it out to him.

I have only my cap to pin on.

Jeff loved his Phillies cap.

I shall wear my lovely cap and my new riding dress.

Even the root tip, which shows a certain differentiation into root cap and root apex, cannot be said to be a definite sense organ in the same way as the sense organs of an animal.

Zach jerked suddenly, knocking his cap off and exposing a scalp full of red hair.

A true mushroom is never large in size; its cap very seldom exceeds 4, at most 5 inches.

They wear a black cap, about 12 ft.

A form of cap much worn in Bengal and western India is known as Irani kullah, or Persian cap. It is made of goatskin and is shaped like a tarbush but has no tassel.

From the first the white conical cap seems to have been decorated round the lower edge by a band or orphrey (circulus).

Then added, "Except the bathing suit—and his cap."

The priests deserted the Temple for the palaestra and the young nobles wore the Greek cap. The Jews of Jerusalem were enrolled as citizens of Antioch.

Circlet and arches are richly chased and jewelled; they are filled out by a cap of stiff material, often red velvet, ornamented with pictures in embroidery or appliqué metal.

The larger species of fungi, such as the Agaricini and Polyporei, &c., are prepared for the herbarium by cutting a slice out of the centre of the plant so as to show the outline of the cap or pileus, the attachment of the gills, and the character of the interior of the stem.

In it he discusses the "notes" which distinguish Catholic truth from heresy, and (cap. 2) lays down and applies the famous threefold test of orthodoxy - quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus credi-tum est.

These parsissoks, elected at the rate of about one representative to 120 voters, wear a cap with a badge (a bear rampant), and aid the European members of the council in distributing the surplus profit apportioned to each district, and generally in advising as, to the welfare of that part of Greenland under their partial control.

In general it is laid down (cap. i.) that the priest, in benedictions outside the Mass, shall be vested in surplice and stole, and shall give the blessing standing and bare-headed.

In the blessing of the holy water (cap. ii.), the essential instrument of all benedictions, the object is clearly to establish its potency against evil spirits.

The story of Hop's expedition is told in the Nouvelle description .du Cap de Bonne Esperance (Amsterdam, 1778).

Or it falls over the nape of the neck and is kept in position with a band; or again as a cloth cap has lappets to protect the ears.

Workmen wore a close-fitting felt cap (Taos).

The frec end of the hilt was crowned with a metallic cap or pommel (kashira), the other extremity next the tsuba was embraced by an oval ring (fuchi), and in the middle was affixed on each side a special ornament called the menuki, all adapted in material and workmanship to harmonize with the guard.

On the 1st, they marched in procession through the city, dressed in an embroidered tunic, a brazen breastplate and a peaked cap; each carried a sword by his side and a short staff in his right hand, with which the shield, borne on the left arm, was struck from time to time.

We know from Einhard (Vita Karoli, cap. xxix.) that the Frankish heroic ballads were drawn up in writing by Charlemagne's order, and it may be accepted as certain that he was himself the subject of many such during his lifetime.

In large levels only the cap pieces for the roof are made of steel joists, but in smaller ones complete arches made of pieces of rails fish-jointed at the crown are used.

It is composed of a circlet of gold, adorned with precious stones and pearls, heightened with fleurs-de-lys, and is raised above the circlet in the form of a cap which is opened in the middle, so that the lower part is crescentshaped; across this opening from front to back rises an arched fillet, enriched with pearls and surmounted by an orb, on which is a cross of pearls.

This was done by investing them with a sword, a cap of maintenance or estate, and with a circlet of gold set with precious stones, which was imposed on the head.

Caxton in 1481 has "lapwynches" (Reynard the Fox, cap. 27).

In archaic art he was portrayed as a full-grown and bearded man, clothed in a long chiton, and often wearing a cap (Kvvij) or a broad-brimmed hat (74Tao-os), and winged boots.

The culminating summits of the ranges generally present the appearance of a flat, rounded swelling, and when they are crowned with glaciers, as many of them are, these shape themselves into what may be described as a mantle, a breastplate, or a flat cap, from which lappets and fringes project at intervals; nowhere do there exist any of the long, narrow, winding glacier tongues which are so characteristic of the Alps of Europe.

Aristotle is commonly supposed to be the first author who mentions a parrot; but this is an error, for nearly a century earlier Ctesias in his Indica (cap. 3),2 under the name of fib-Taws (Bittacus), so neatly described a bird which could speak an "Indian" language - naturally, as he seems to have thought - or Greek - if it had been taught so to do - about as big as a sparrow-hawk (Hierax), with a purple face and a black beard, otherwise blue-green (cyaneus) and vermilion in colour, so that there cannot be much risk in declaring that he must have had before him a male example of what is now commonly known as the Blossom-headed parakeet, and to ornithologists as Palaeornis cyanocephalus, an inhabitant of many parts of India.

In Loango a prince's cap is put upon the head of a dead leopard, and dances are held in its honour.

Although the relief is strong, the mountain forms are rounded rather than rugged; few of the summits deserve or receive the name of peaks; some are called domes, from their broadly rounded tons, others are known as balds, becatise the widespread forest cover is replaced over their heads by a grassy cap.

The god is usually clothed in a short sleeveless tunic, and wears a round close-fitting cap. His face is that of a middle-aged man, with unkempt hair.

E, The cap of small cells has increased in number by repeated formation of pellucid cells in the same way, and by division of those first formed.

The cap will spread over and enclose the four segment-cells.

If 1 2 and t l are thicknesses traversed by the extreme rays, t = t 2 - t,, and if, as is usually the case, the prism is filled right up to its refraction cap, = o, and t becomes equal to the greatest thickness of the medium which is made use of.

In the following year Napper Tandy took a leading part in organizing a new military association in Ireland modelled after the French National Guards; they professed republican principles, and on their uniform the cap of liberty instead of the crown surmounted the Irish harp. Tandy also, with the purpose of bringing about a fusion between the Defenders and the United Irishmen, took the oath of the Defenders, a Roman Catholic society whose agrarian and political violence had been increasing for several years; but being threatened with prosecution for this step, and also for libel, he fled to America, where he remained till 1798.

The only things missing were the swim suit and baseball cap.

The sec­ond, smaller knapsack contained a bulky sweater, rain gear, three sweatbands and a rolled up cap.

That was you who came out of his room and waved to the busboy—wearing Byrne's baseball cap.

You made a mistake taking the Phillies baseball cap.

She stepped into the cold, snowy day and pulled on a cap.

In Ine's Laws (cap. 70) we find a list of payments specified for a unit of ten hides, perhaps the normal holding of a twelfhynde man - though on the other hand it may be nothing more than a mere fiscal unit in an aggregate of estates.

It consists of five principal parts - the card, the needles, the bowl, a jewelled cap and the pivot.

The mica card is generally mounted on a brass framework, F F, with a brass cap, C, fitted with a sapphire centre and carrying four magnetized needles, N, N, N, N, as in fig.

The combination of card, needles and cap is generally termed "the card"; on the continent of Europe it is called the "rose."

Great steadiness of card under severe shocks and vibrations, combined with a minimum of friction in the cap and pivot, is obtained with this compass.

As the power of the Spanish crown was gradually concentrated and consolidated, royal pragmaticas began to take the place of constitutional laws; 1 Cap. xx.

The turkey, so far as we know, was first described by Oviedo in his Sumario de la natural historic de las Indias 2 (cap. xxxvi.), said to have been published in 1527.