Word Finder - caps

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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.

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Capitalization.

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An uppercase letter.

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To convert text to uppercase.

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Capacitor

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Parasitic caps.

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A recording or screenshot.

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Anyone have a cap of the games last night?

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To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.

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A capsule of a drug.

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A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.

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Capital letters; capitals.

The women had flowing robes, tall pointed caps, and veils descending over most of the figure.

An iron tube, having its ends closed by brass caps, was placed inside a compressing vessel into which water was forced until the pressure upon the outer surface of the tube reached 250 atmospheres.

These attachments, first invented by Jeremiah Howard, and described in the United States Patent Journal in 1858, are simply hydraulic rams fitted into the side or top caps of the mill, and pressing against the side or top brasses in such a manner as to allow the side or top roll to move away from the other rolls, while an accumulator, weighted to any desired extent, keeps a constant pressure on each of the rams. An objection to the top cap arrangement is, that if the volume or feed is large enough to lift the top roll from the cane roll, it will simultaneously lift it from the megass roll, so that the megass will not be as well pressed as it ought to be;' and an objection to the side cap arrangement on the megass roll as well as to the top cap arrangement is, that in case more canes are fed in at one end of the rolls than at the other, the roll will be pushed out farther at one end than at the other; and though it may thus avoid a breakdown of the rolls, it is apt, in so doing, to break the ends off the teeth of the crown wheels by putting them out of line with one another.

The summits of the flattopped hills about Betsy Cove, in the south-east of the island, are formed of caps of basalt.

They are dark blue-grey, fine grained and durable, and are much used for flagging and kerbing and for sills, caps and steps.

The marble caps are each richly carved with figures and foliage executed with great skill and wonderful fertility of invention - no two being alike.

In 1769 Pechlin sold the "Hats" as he had formerly sold the "Caps," and was largely instrumental in preventing the projected indispensable reform of the Swedish constitution.

The latter was the chief town; its coins are found in considerable number, the types being sometimes the Athenian goddess and her owl, sometimes native religious symbols, the caps of the Dioscuri, Apollo, &c. Few coins of Myrina are known.

Sprengtporten, above all things a man of action, had too hearty a contempt for "Hats" and "Caps" to belong to either.

The club was suppressed by the dominant "Caps," who also sought to ruin Sprengtporten financially by inciting his tenants in Finland to bring actions against him for alleged extortion, not in the ordinary courts but in the riksdag itself, where Sprengtporten's political adversaries would be his judges.

Widely distributed in North America, the best come from Canada, are costly and are used for military caps, boas, muffs, trimmings, carriage rugs and coachmen's capes, and the fur wears exceedingly well.

These fur skins are dyed black or dark brown and are used for military caps and hearth-rugs.

There are manufactures of cloth, linen, leather, caps, boots, soap, candles, ropes; as well as breweries and distilleries.

They are often shed throughout life, the successors lying on the inner side, and with their caps partly fitting into the wide open roots of the older teeth.

Some varieties are dopallari, a skull-cap; kishtinuma, or boat-shaped cap; goltopi, a round cap of the kind known in England as " pork-pie "; bezwi, or egg-shaped cap; sigoshia, or three-cornered cap; chaugoshia, or four-cornered cap; tajdar, or crown-shaped cap; &c. Many other caps are named after the locality of manufacture or some peculiarity of make, e.g.

Caps are much worn by Mussulmans of Delhi, Agra, Lucknow and other cities of the United provinces.

When Hindus wear caps or topis they resemble those worn by Mahommedans, but they never wear the fez, tarbush or irani topi.

The students, who are distinguished by their white caps, are divided for social purposes into " nations " (landskap) of ancient origin, based upon the distinctions between natives of different parts.

But the day of reckoning could not be postponed for ever; and when the estates met in 1765 it brought the Caps into power at last.

Other epidermic appendages are the horns of ruminants and rhinoceroses - the former being elongated, tapering, hollow caps of hardened epidermis of fibrous structure, fitting on and growing from conical projections of the frontal bones and always arranged in pairs, while the latter are of similar structure, but without any internal bony support, and situated in the middle line.

Coal-mines were worked in Bewdley as early as 1669, and the town was formerly noted for making caps.

They wore coats confined by belts, trousers tucked into soft boots, and hoods or tall pointed caps.

Many variations of this apparatus are in use; in one of the commonest there are two cylindrical chambers, joined at the bottom, and each provided at the top with fine tubes bent at right angles; sometimes the inlet and outlet tubes are provided with caps.

Among the manufactures of Oneida are wagons, cigars, furniture, caskets, silver-plated ware, engines and machinery, steel and wooden pulleys and chucks, steel grave vaults, hosiery, and milk bottle caps.

In this system the well-fitting earthenware drain-pipes are furnished at intervals with vertical shafts terminating at the surface of the ground in movable caps.

Their name seems to have been first used in Persia of the Shiites in allusion to their red caps.

The Caps struck at once at the weak point of their opponents by ordering a budget report to be made; and it was speedily found that the whole financial system of the Hats had been based upon reckless improvidence and c prof the wilful misrepresentation, and that the only fruit of their long rule was an enormous addition to the national debt and a depreciation of the note circulation to onethird of its face value.

The Caps succeeded in transferring L250,000 from the pockets of the rich to the empty exchequer, reducing the national debt by L575,179, and establishing some sort of equilibrium between revenue and expenditure.

A watchful neutrality, not venturing much beyond defensive alliances and commercial treaties with the maritime powers, was therefore Sweden's safest policy, and this the older Caps had always followed out.

But when the Hats became the armourbearers of France in the north, a protector strong enough to counteract French influence became the cardinal exigency of their opponents, the younger Caps, who now flung themselves into the arms of Russia, overlooking the fact that even a pacific union with Russia was more to be feared than a martial alliance with France.

Thus, while the French alliance of the warlike Hats had destroyed the prestige of Sweden, the Russian alliance of the peaceful Caps threatened to destroy her very existence.

Fortunately, the domination of the Caps was not for long.

Still more energetic on the other side, the Russian minister, Ivan Osterman, became the treasurer as well as the counsellor of the Caps, and scattered the largesse of the Russian empress with a lavish hand; and so lost to all feeling of patriotism were the Caps that they openly threatened all who ventured to vote against them with the Muscovite vengeance, and fixed Norrkoping, instead of Stockholm, as the place of meeting for the Riksdag as being more accessible to the Russian fleet.

But it soon became evident that the Caps were playing a losing game; and, when the Riksdag met at Norrkoping on the 19th of April, they found themselves in a minority in all four estates.

The Caps had short shrift, and the joint note which the Russian, Prussian and Danish ministers presented to the estates protesting, in menacing terms, against any " reprisals " on the part of the triumphant faction, only hastened the fall of the government.

The elections held on the demise of the Crown resulted in a partial victory for the Caps, especially among the 1771- lower orders; but in the estate of the peasants 1792.

The subsequent attempts of the dominant Caps still further to limit the prerogative, and reduce Gustavus to the condition of a roi fainéant, induced him at last to consider the possibility of a revolution.

At this juncture Gustavus was approached by Jakob Magnus Sprengtporten, a Finnish nobleman of determined character, who had incurred the enmity of the Caps, with the project of a revolution.

The effort to remedy the frightful corruption which had been fostered by the Hats and Caps engaged a considerable share of his time and he even found it necessary to put the whole of a supreme court of justice (Giita Hofratt) on its trial.

Boots, caps and furred gowns are manufactured, and gardening and tanning are carried on.

Lace, which is pursued as a home-industry in the Erzgebirge region, has its principal centre at Weipert, while Strakonitz has the speciality of the manufacture of red fezes (Turkish caps).

Subsidiary to these leading industries is the production of machine-made clothing, hats and caps.

Russians of the Lipovan sect live in exile in Bucharest and other cities, earning a livelihood as cab-drivers, and wearing the long coats and round caps of their countrymen.

The dress of the men was thoroughly Turkish except for their lambskin caps, that of the women half Greek, half Turkish.

On the accession of the Caps to power in 1766, Fersen assisted the court in its struggle with them by refusing to employ the Guards to keep order in the capital when King Adolphus Frederick, driven to desperation by the demands of the Caps, publicly abdicated, and a seven days' interregnum ensued.

Nevertheless he consented to open negotiations with the Caps, and was the principal Hat representative on the abortive.

The manufactures of the department include woollen caps and sashes, cord slippers, chocolate, and paper, and there are also tanneries, sawand flour-mills.

But there is a great variety of artisan work, such as copper and brass, paper, knives (at Bokhara), silver filigree, shoes, caps (at Samarkand and Andijan) and carpets; but most of these have been for some time declining and now stand at a rather low level.

Duff House, the Fife Gates Pair of polished ashlar octagonal gatepiers with molded stepped caps supporting fine carved stone urns.

Some machines have an instrument binnacle mounted on the fuel tank with the filler cap or caps offset to one or both sides.