cap : Idioms & Phrases

• an honour, trophy, or mark of distinction. Colloq.

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• noun a cap with a bill
  baseball cap; golf cap.
  

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• noun a tight-fitting cap that keeps hair dry while swimming
  bathing cap.
  

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• noun any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter
  mitrewort; miterwort.
  

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Bish"op's cap`

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1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. Longfellow.

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• noun chickadee having a dark crown
  Parus atricapillus; blackcap.
  

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• noun a small tube filled with detonating substances; used to detonate high explosives
  

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• obsequiously; submissively.

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• money collected in a cap for the huntsman at the death of the fox.

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• a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; now called an apron.

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• . See Liberty cap, under Liberty.

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• a cap of state carried before the kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities.

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• verb finish or complete, as with some decisive action
  
  • he capped off the meeting with a radical proposal

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• noun a bottle opener to pry off caps
  

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• . (a) A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolsap, and legal cap. (b) A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities.

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• (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material.

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• noun a threaded screw for machine parts; screws into a tapped hole
  

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• adverb at all points from head to foot
  from head to toe.
  
  • he was armed cap-a-pie

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• noun Indian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
  Macaca radiata; crown monkey; bonnet macaque; bonnet monkey.
  

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Cap"ping plane`

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1. (Join.) A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.

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• noun a contraceptive device consisting of a small thimble-shaped cup that is placed over the uterine cervix to prevent the entrance of spermatozoa
  

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• a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward.

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• noun a flat woolen cap with a stiff peak
  cloth cap.
  

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Cloud"-capped` adjective

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1. Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds; as, cloud-capped mountains.

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• noun a raccoon cap with the tail hanging down the back
  coonskin.
  

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• noun a dermatitis of the scalp that is common in infants
  

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• noun extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
  Amanita phalloides; death cup; death angel; destroying angel.
  

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• noun the cap of the distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the spark plugs
  

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• noun a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils
  dunce's cap; dunce cap.
  

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• noun a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils
  dunce's cap; dunce cap.
  

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• noun small plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes; northwestern North America to California and Colorado
  Mitella pentandra.
  

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• noun a flat woolen cap with a stiff peak
  cloth cap.
  

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• cap See Foolscap.

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Flat"-cap` noun

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1. A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London. Marston.

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• a cap with wings, formerly worn by women.

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• noun a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils
  dunce's cap; dunce cap.
  

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• a cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn by professional jesters.

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• the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier.

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• a forage cap.

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• (Bot.), the monkshood.

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• noun a wedge-shaped wool or cotton cap; worn as part of a uniform
  garrison cap.
  

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• noun a cap with a bill
  baseball cap; golf cap.
  

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• a silly person. Obs. Beau. & .

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• a slight salute with the cap. Obs. Shak.

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• a canvas covering for a haycock.

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• noun a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)
  icecap.
  

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• noun having a cap that melts into an inky fluid after spores have matured
  inky cap; Coprinus atramentarius.
  

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• noun having a cap that melts into an inky fluid after spores have matured
  inky cap; Coprinus atramentarius.
  

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• noun a cap with a bill
  baseball cap; golf cap.
  

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• noun a corporation with a large capitalization
  
  • he works for a large cap

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• adjective of stocks of companies with a market capitalization of five billion dollars or more
  large-capitalisation; large-capitalization.
  

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• a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge. "

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• noun cap used to keep lens free of dust when not in use
  lens cover.
  

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• noun close-fitting conical cap worn as a symbol of liberty during the French Revolution and in the U.S. before 1800
  

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• . (a) The Roman pileus which was given to a slave at his manumission . (b) A limp, close-fitting cap with which the head of representations of the goddess of liberty is often decked. It is sometimes represented on a spear or a liberty pole.

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• noun a wedge-shaped wool or cotton cap; worn as part of a uniform
  garrison cap.
  

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• noun a cap with a flat circular top and a visor
  kepi; peaked cap; service cap.
  

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• noun a detonator that explodes when struck
  

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• a small copper cap or cup, containing fulminating powder, and used with a percussion lock to explode gunpowder.

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• a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of piles.

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• noun cap on the opening in the top of a radiator through which a coolant liquid can be added
  

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• (Mil.), a sword, cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by the official regulations.

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• noun thimble-shaped mass of cells covering and protecting the growing tip of a root
  

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• noun a cap worn by sailors
  

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• noun a cap with a flat circular top and a visor
  kepi; peaked cap; service cap.
  

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• noun common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores
  Coprinus comatus; shaggymane mushroom; shaggymane.
  

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• noun a tight cap worn to keep hair dry while showering
  

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• noun a close-fitting woolen cap; often has a tapering tail with a tassel
  stocking cap; ski cap.
  

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• noun a corporation with a small capitalization
  
  • this annual conference is a showcase for ambitious small caps
• noun a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
  small capital.
  

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• adjective of stocks of companies with a market capitalization of less than one billion dollars
  small-capitalisation; small-capitalization.
  

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• adjective (of mountains) capped with a covering of snow
  

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Snow"-capped` adjective

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1. Having the top capped or covered with snow; as, snow-capped mountains.

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• a kind of woolen cap; so called because enjoined to be worn by a statute, dated in 1571, in behalf of the trade of cappers. Obs. Halliwell.

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• noun a close-fitting woolen cap; often has a tapering tail with a tassel
  stocking cap; ski cap.
  

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• noun a tight-fitting cap that keeps hair dry while swimming
  bathing cap.
  

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• noun a state in which one thinks
  

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• a knitted cap. Halliwell.

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• to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. Colloq.

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• to make a fool of one. (Obs.) Chaucer.

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• to try to win the favor of a man with a view to marriage. Colloq.

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• noun a close-fitting woolen cap; often has a tapering tail with a tassel
  stocking cap; ski cap.
  

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• the cap worn by studens at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, having a stiff, flat, square appendage at top. A similar cap used in the United States is called Oxford cap, mortar board, etc.

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• . (Bot.) (a) Turk's-cap lily. See under Lily. (b) A tulip. (c) A plant of the genus Melocactus; Turk's head. See Melon cactus, under Melon.

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• noun lily of the eastern United States with orange to red maroon-spotted flowers
  Lilium superbum; Turk's cap-lily.
  

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• noun lily of the eastern United States with orange to red maroon-spotted flowers
  Lilium superbum; Turk's cap-lily.
  
• noun lily with small dull purple flowers of northwestern Europe and northwestern Asia
  Lilium martagon; martagon.
  

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• (Bot.) Lilium Martagon, a red lily with recurved sepals; also, the similar American lily, L. superbum.

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• a sort of chimney cap which turns round with the wind so as to present its opening to the leeward. G. Francis.

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• noun a knitted dark blue wool cap worn by seamen in cold or stormy weather
  

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• the members of a secret organization in various of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked in white.

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• noun a magical cap that secures whatever one wishes for
  

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• a cap fabled to give one whatever he wishes for when wearing it.

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• noun a cap with a flat circular top and a visor
  kepi; peaked cap; service cap.
  

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