English Dictionary

cap

/kæp/

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.

She wore a stylish cap to protect her head from the sun.

意味（1）

A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.

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

意味（2）

A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.

意味（3）

An academic mortarboard.

意味（4）

A protective cover or seal.

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

意味（5）

A crown for covering a tooth.

He had golden caps on his teeth.

意味（6）

The summit of a mountain, etc.

There was snow on the cap of the mountain.

意味（7）

An artificial upper limit or ceiling.

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

意味（8）

The top part of a mushroom.

意味（9）

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

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

意味（10）

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

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

意味（11）

(slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.

Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?

意味（12）

(slang, from African-American Vernacular) A lie or exaggeration.

no cap

意味（13）

(sports) A place on a national team; an international appearance.

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

意味（14）

(obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.

Thou art the Cap / Of all the Fooles aliue.

意味（15）

(obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.

He that will give a cap and make a leg, in thanks for a favour he never received, deserveth rather to be blamed for want of wit, than to be praised for store of manners.

意味（16）

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

意味（17）

(architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.

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

意味（18）

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

意味（19）

(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.

意味（20）

(geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.

意味（21）

A large size of writing paper.

flat cap; foolscap; legal cap