cap

Noun

cap

1. A close-fitting head covering either without a brim or with a peak
2. A special head covering to indicate rank, occupation etc.
3. An academic mortarboard
4. A protective cover or seal
5. A crown for covering a tooth
6. The summit of a mountain etc.
7. An artificial upper limit or ceiling
8. (informal) An uppercase letter, abbreviated from "capital"
9. The top part of a mushroom
10. A small amount of gunpowder 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.

11. 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.

12. (soccer) An international appearance

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

13. (cricket) The cap worn by players as protection from the sun; the cap awarded to a player when first selected to play for a side
14. (slang) a bullet used to shoot someone; generally used in the phrase "put a cap in (someone"s) ass"
    • 2001: Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon

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

3 letters in word "cap": A C P.

Anagrams of cap:

• pac

Words found within cap:

pa

• Definitions:
• a tight-fitting headdress a top (as for a bottle) detonator: a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive something serving as a cover or protection a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom ceiling: an upper limit on what is allowed; "they established a cap for prices" crownwork: dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a tooth lie at the top of; "Snow capped the mountains" capital: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature restrict the number or amount of; "We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club"
• A cap is a form of headgear. Caps have crowns that fit closer than hats and have no brim or only a visor. They are typically designed for warmth and, when including a visor, blocking the sun from the eyes.
• The cap of a crown is the cap which fills the inner space of a modern crown. While ancient crowns contained no cap, from mediæval times it became traditional to fill the circlet with a cap of velvet or other such cloth, with a base of ermine.
• A cap is an appearance for a select team, such as a school, county or international team in sports. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap (meaning an item of headgear) to every player in an international match of Association Football; however, the act of ...
• (Also called lid.) A region of negative buoyancy below an existing level of free convection (LFC) where energy must be supplied to the parcel to maintain its ascent. This tends to inhibit the development of convection until some physical mechanism can lift a parcel to its LFC. ...
• Carrier-less Amplitude/Phase (CAP) modulation; incoming data modulates a single carrier that is then transmitted down a telephone line. The carrier itself is suppressed before transmission (it contains no information, and can be reconstructed at the receiver), hence the adjective "carrier-less. ...
• Betting will be capped after it has been raised three times in one round. After this, players have two options: call or fold.
• The agricultural policy of the EU as set out in Articles 32–38 of the Treaty of Rome. The overall aims of the CAP are to increase agricultural productivity, ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural community, stabilize markets, assure the availability of supplies, and ensure that ...
• An option-like contract for which the buyer pays a fee or premium, to obtain protection against a rise in a particular interest rate above a certain level. For example, an interest rate cap may cover a specified principal amount of a loan over a designated time period such as a calendar quarter. ...
• The limit on an interest rate for an adjustable mortgage (either on each adjustment or over the life of the mortgage).
• Adjustable Rate Mortgages have fluctuating interest rates, but those fluctuations are usually limited to a certain amount. Those limitations may apply to how much the loan may adjust over a six month period, an annual period, and over the life of the loan, and are referred to as "caps. ...
• A circular piece of wrapper leaf placed at the head of the cigar to secure the wrapper.
• A limit on how much an adjustable rate mortgage's monthly payment or interest rate can increase. A cap is meant to protect the borrower from large increases and may be a payment cap, an interest cap, a life-of-loan cap or periodic cap. A payment cap is a limit on the monthly payment. ...
• A provision of an ARM limiting how much the interest rate or mortgage payments may increase.
• The highest rate that an adjustable rate mortgage may reach. It can be expressed as the actual rate or as the amount of change allowed above the start rate. For example, a 7.99 % start rate with a 6% rate change cap would have a maximum interest rate cap of 13.99%.
• A supply contract between a buyer or a seller, whereby the buyer is assured that he will not have to pay more than a given maximum price.
• A fairly impermeable seal, usually composed of clay-type soil or a combination of clay soil and synthetic liner, which is placed over a landfill during closure. ...
• An options contract whereby the seller agrees to pay to the purchaser, in return for a premium, the difference between a reference rate and an agreed strike price when the reference exceeds the strike on or before a specific date.
• First established in 1962, the CAP aims at ensuring the free trade of farm products within the European Union (EU--qv), guaranteeing the prices of these products, and maintaining protective tariffs a gainst farm products from outside the EU.
• The maximum an adjustable rate mortgage may increase, regardless of index changes.
• Cost allocation plan means a narrative description of the procedures that the State agency will use in identifying, measuring, and allocating all State agency costs incurred in support of all programs administered or supervised by the State agency.
• Interest-rate option that guarantees that the rate on a floating-rate loan will not exceed a certain level.
• a latex or lycra swim cap used during a race or workout to protect a swimmer's hair from the effects of chlorine in the water as well as help cut down water resistance from the swimmer's hair.
• Civil Aviation Publication (UK).
• A limit on how much a variable interest rate can increase. Many adjustable rate mortgages have both annual (or semi-annual) rate caps and lifetime caps. They limit the amount your payments can increase in an adjustment period and over the life of the loan.
• small device used to ignite powder in musket barrel
• To prevent excessively high payment increases, ARM's place a cap on the amount by which the interest rate may rise at any single adjustment, over the life of the loan, or both.
• The wooden block at the top of a mast through which the mast is drawn when being stepped or lowered.
• The layer of fruit pulp, skins, and possibly seeds that forms on top of the must during fermentation in the primary fermentation vessel. The cap forms when carbon dioxide emitted by the yeast rises to the surface, carrying solid material with it. ...

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