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cap

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kæp/

Verb

transitive slang intransitive obsolete

(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.

Japanese Meaning

蓋をする、ふたで覆うこと / 栄誉の印として帽子を授与すること / 上に覆いかぶせること / 凌駕する、追い抜くこと

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Please cap the bottle after filling it to prevent contamination.

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充填したら汚染を防ぐために瓶の蓋を閉めてください。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.

Sense（2）

(transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.

Sense（3）

(transitive) To lie over or on top of something.

Sense（4）

(transitive) To surpass or outdo.

Sense（5）

(transitive) To set an upper limit on something.

cap wages.

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Sense（6）

(transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.

That really capped my day.

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Sense（7）

(transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side.

Sense（8）

(transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.

If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.

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Sense（9）

(intransitive, slang, especially African-American Vernacular) To lie; to tell a lie.

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Sense（10）

(transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.

Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.

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Sense（11）

(transitive, obsolete) To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.

Tom never miſsed a lecture, and capped the proctor with the profoundeſt of bows.

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Sense（12）

To deprive of a cap.

As if one going to diſtrain upon his own Land or Tenement, where lawfully he may; yet if in doing thereof, he tranſgreſs the leaſt Point of the Common Law, he ſtraight committeth Felony. Or if one, by any other Occaſion, take any thing from another, as Boys uſe ſometimes to cap one another, the ſame is ſtraight Felony.

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caps

（ present singular third-person ）

capping

（ participle present ）

capped

（ participle past ）

capped

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