Dictionary Entry
cap
cap is a 3-letter English word with 32 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A covering for the head. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 32 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A covering for the head
- 2noun
One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys
- 3noun
One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants
- 4noun
One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
- 5noun
The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
- 6noun
A respectful uncovering of the head.
- 7noun
The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- 8noun
Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use
- 9noun
The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate.
- 10noun
Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- 11noun
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.
- 12noun
A percussion cap. See under Percussion.
- 13noun
The removable cover of a journal box.
- 14noun
A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
- 15noun
A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.
- 16transitive verb
To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.
- 17transitive verb
To deprive of cap.
- 18transitive verb
To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.
- 19transitive verb
To salute by removing the cap.
- 20transitive verb
To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs.
- 21intransitive verb
To uncover the head respectfully.
- 22noun
a tight-fitting headdress
- 23noun
a top (as for a bottle)
- 24noun
something serving as a cover or protection
- 25noun
the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- 26noun
(dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
"tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown"
- 27noun
a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive
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- 28noun
an upper limit on what is allowed
"he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him"
"there was a roof on salaries"
- 29noun
a protective covering that is part of a plant
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- 30noun
a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
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- 31verb
restrict the number or amount of
"We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club"
- 32verb
lie at the top of
"Snow capped the mountains"
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