Cap
noun
A kind of hat without a brim.
He wore a baseball cap.
Often appears as...
- baseball cap
- cap on head
verb
To place something on top or to cover something.
He capped the pen after writing.
Often appears as...
- cap a pen
- cap a bottle
noun
The top or highest part of something.
The cap of the mountain is covered in snow.
Often appears as...
- mountain cap
- cap of a hill
noun
A limit above which something cannot rise.
There is a cap on how high prices can increase.
Often appears as...
- cap on prices
- cap on interest
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To surpass or do better than someone else.
She capped his score in the game.
Often appears as...
- cap the score
- cap a performance
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A selection for a national sports team.
She earned her first international cap for soccer this year.
Often appears as...
- earn a cap
- win a cap
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A kind of hat without a brim.
He wore a baseball cap.
Often appears as...
- baseball cap
- cap on head
verb
To place something on top or to cover something.
He capped the pen after writing.
Often appears as...
- cap a pen
- cap a bottle
noun
The top or highest part of something.
The cap of the mountain is covered in snow.
Often appears as...
- mountain cap
- cap of a hill
noun
A limit above which something cannot rise.
There is a cap on how high prices can increase.
Often appears as...
- cap on prices
- cap on interest
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To surpass or do better than someone else.
She capped his score in the game.
Often appears as...
- cap the score
- cap a performance
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A selection for a national sports team.
She earned her first international cap for soccer this year.
Often appears as...
- earn a cap
- win a cap
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 6
Pro Tip 1/2Casual Wear
Caps are often worn for casual occasions and sports, less formal than hats with brims.
I prefer wearing a cap to the beach rather than a sun hat.
Pro Tip 2/2Fashion Statement
Caps can represent team loyalty or musical interests, often with logos or designs.
His cap had his favorite band's logo on it.
Pro Tip 1/2Casual Wear
Caps are often worn for casual occasions and sports, less formal than hats with brims.
I prefer wearing a cap to the beach rather than a sun hat.
Pro Tip 2/2Fashion Statement
Caps can represent team loyalty or musical interests, often with logos or designs.
His cap had his favorite band's logo on it.
Pro Tip 1/2Casual Wear
Caps are often worn for casual occasions and sports, less formal than hats with brims.
I prefer wearing a cap to the beach rather than a sun hat.
Pro Tip 2/2Fashion Statement
Caps can represent team loyalty or musical interests, often with logos or designs.
His cap had his favorite band's logo on it.
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My glacier cave...
specifically to see if things called extremophiles, tiny lifeforms that have evolved to live in a completely hostile conditions, might be living under the ice, kind of like what they hope to find in the polar ice caps of Mars some day. Another really cool thing is that as seeds and birds land on the surface of the glacier and die,
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Comics that ask "what...
in general, and that lets you put some caps on how many data centers could they be building, because a big data center costs a certain amount of money. And you can also then put a cap on how much of the world hard drive market are they taking up, which turns out, it's pretty sizable. I read a calculation at one point,
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How stress affects your...
make you more susceptible to infections, and slow the rate you heal. Want to live a long life? You may have to curb your chronic stress. That's because it has even been associated with shortened telomeres, the shoelace tip ends of chromosomes that measure a cell's age. Telomeres cap chromosomes
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How does chemotherapy...
Doctors commonly prescribe options to help manage these side-effects, such as strong anti-nausea medications. For hair loss, devices called cold caps can help lower the temperature around the head and constrict blood vessels,
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Pluto 101 PIPE National...
With polar ice caps, valleys, planes and craters. It even has glaciers made of frozen nitrogen and frozen water on the surface makes giant floating mountains. Such varied terrain is influenced by the presence
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Whatever happened to...
while strictly limiting pollution. Many critics called these allowances licenses to pollute, or said the government was selling clean air. But since the cap was set to lower five years into the program,
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The reality constructed...
the acres of fury then the old catechist who will soften his cassock was more or less his skin screamed out in the fattest of voices one whole country cannot fit under a soldier's cap god help us push
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Inside the Dead Shed PIPE...
So hopefully that supplier was taken out. This is snakeskin, right? Yes. Reticulated python. This is a reticulated python. Longest species in the world. What's this story? Why are these caps in here?
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Mars 101 PIPE National...
went extinct water on the red planet still exists today but mostly in the form of polar ice caps because of factors such as the presence of water some scientists believe life may have
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Free Solo 360 PIPE National...
there's just so much in life where you're like oh I'm not good at life but at least I'm really good at this for a few hours on our cap I got to actually experience perfection
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My glacier cave...
specifically to see if things called extremophiles, tiny lifeforms that have evolved to live in a completely hostile conditions, might be living under the ice, kind of like what they hope to find in the polar ice caps of Mars some day. Another really cool thing is that as seeds and birds land on the surface of the glacier and die,
Video examples
Comics that ask "what...
in general, and that lets you put some caps on how many data centers could they be building, because a big data center costs a certain amount of money. And you can also then put a cap on how much of the world hard drive market are they taking up, which turns out, it's pretty sizable. I read a calculation at one point,
Video examples
How stress affects your...
make you more susceptible to infections, and slow the rate you heal. Want to live a long life? You may have to curb your chronic stress. That's because it has even been associated with shortened telomeres, the shoelace tip ends of chromosomes that measure a cell's age. Telomeres cap chromosomes
Video examples
How does chemotherapy...
Doctors commonly prescribe options to help manage these side-effects, such as strong anti-nausea medications. For hair loss, devices called cold caps can help lower the temperature around the head and constrict blood vessels,
Video examples
Pluto 101 PIPE National...
With polar ice caps, valleys, planes and craters. It even has glaciers made of frozen nitrogen and frozen water on the surface makes giant floating mountains. Such varied terrain is influenced by the presence
Video examples
Whatever happened to...
while strictly limiting pollution. Many critics called these allowances licenses to pollute, or said the government was selling clean air. But since the cap was set to lower five years into the program,
Video examples
The reality constructed...
the acres of fury then the old catechist who will soften his cassock was more or less his skin screamed out in the fattest of voices one whole country cannot fit under a soldier's cap god help us push
Video examples
Inside the Dead Shed PIPE...
So hopefully that supplier was taken out. This is snakeskin, right? Yes. Reticulated python. This is a reticulated python. Longest species in the world. What's this story? Why are these caps in here?
Video examples
Mars 101 PIPE National...
went extinct water on the red planet still exists today but mostly in the form of polar ice caps because of factors such as the presence of water some scientists believe life may have
Video examples
Free Solo 360 PIPE National...
there's just so much in life where you're like oh I'm not good at life but at least I'm really good at this for a few hours on our cap I got to actually experience perfection
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Moeen Ali
English Athlete
I'm 32 now. I'm getting old. It's gone in the blink of an eye. But I won't even look back at the number of caps when I'm done: the most important thing will be remembering all the fun I've had with the guys in the dressing room and the friends I've made.
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Marielle Heller
American Writer
I don't look like the way we've painted directors in our movies and everything since forever. I don't look like an old white guy in a baseball cap. So, yes, there are always moments when people are surprised that I'm the director.
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Jay Samit
American Businessman
A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?
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David Cameron
British Politician
The benefits cap is right in principle because people don't pay their taxes so that families who could work don't work. People pay their taxes so we support people who really need to be supported.
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Ne-Yo
American Musician
Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.
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Sheila Jackson Lee
American Politician
People have been turned away from hospitals simply because they have no insurance. People have been put out of hospitals because they have reached the lifetime caps.
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Gary Cahill
English Athlete
It has been a huge honour and I am hugely grateful to the managers for the caps that I have had.
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Gautam Gambhir
Indian Athlete
Any opportunity you get to play for your country and wear that blue cap is an honour.
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Deadmau5
Canadian Musician
I don't believe there's a cap on creativity and passion.
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John F. Kennedy
American President
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
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Moeen Ali
English Athlete
I'm 32 now. I'm getting old. It's gone in the blink of an eye. But I won't even look back at the number of caps when I'm done: the most important thing will be remembering all the fun I've had with the guys in the dressing room and the friends I've made.
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Marielle Heller
American Writer
I don't look like the way we've painted directors in our movies and everything since forever. I don't look like an old white guy in a baseball cap. So, yes, there are always moments when people are surprised that I'm the director.
Quote examples
Jay Samit
American Businessman
A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?
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David Cameron
British Politician
The benefits cap is right in principle because people don't pay their taxes so that families who could work don't work. People pay their taxes so we support people who really need to be supported.
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Ne-Yo
American Musician
Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.
Quote examples
Sheila Jackson Lee
American Politician
People have been turned away from hospitals simply because they have no insurance. People have been put out of hospitals because they have reached the lifetime caps.
Quote examples
Gary Cahill
English Athlete
It has been a huge honour and I am hugely grateful to the managers for the caps that I have had.
Quote examples
Gautam Gambhir
Indian Athlete
Any opportunity you get to play for your country and wear that blue cap is an honour.
Quote examples
Deadmau5
Canadian Musician
I don't believe there's a cap on creativity and passion.
Quote examples
John F. Kennedy
American President
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
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