[syn: cap, crest]
2. restrict the number or amount of;
- Example: "We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Regulation \Reg`u*la"tion\ (-l?"sh?n), n.
1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
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The temper and regulation of our own minds.
--Macaulay.
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2. A rule or order prescribed for management or government;
prescription; a regulating principle; a governing
direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society
or a school.
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Regulation sword, cap, uniform, etc. (Mil.), a sword,
cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by
the official regulations.
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Syn: Law; rule; method; principle; order; precept. See
Law.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cap \Cap\ (k[a^]p), n. [OE. cappe, AS. c[ae]ppe, cap, cape,
hood, fr. LL, cappa, capa; perhaps of Iberian origin, as
Isidorus of Seville mentions it first: "Capa, quia quasi
totum capiat hominem; it. capitis ornamentum." See 3d Cape,
and cf. 1st Cope.]
1. A covering for the head; esp.
(a) One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men
and boys;
(b) One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants;
(c) One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office,
or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
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2. The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
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Thou art the cap of all the fools alive. --Shak.
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3. A respectful uncovering of the head.
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He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks.
--Fuller.
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4. (Zool.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base
of the bill to the nape of the neck.
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5. Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use; as:
(a) (Arch.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as,
the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping,
cornice, lintel, or plate.
(b) Something covering the top or end of a thing for
protection or ornament.
(c) (Naut.) 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.
(d) A percussion cap. See under Percussion.
(e) (Mech.) The removable cover of a journal box.
(f) (Geom.) A portion of a spherical or other convex
surface.
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6. A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap;
legal cap.
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Cap of a cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep
the priming dry; -- now called an apron.
Cap in hand, obsequiously; submissively.
Cap of liberty. See Liberty cap, under Liberty.
Cap of maintenance, a cap of state carried before the kings
of England at the coronation. It is also carried before
the mayors of some cities.
Cap money, money collected in a cap for the huntsman at the
death of the fox.
Cap paper.
(a) A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolscap,
and legal cap.
(b) A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold
commodities.
Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore,
generally of barren vein material.
Flat cap, cap See Foolscap.
Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer
of soldier.
Legal cap, 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."
To set one's cap, to make a fool of one. (Obs.) --Chaucer.
To set one's cap for, to try to win the favor of a man with
a view to marriage. [Colloq.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cap \Cap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Capped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Capping.]
1. 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.
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The bones next the joint are capped with a smooth
cartilaginous substance. --Derham.
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2. To deprive of cap. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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3. To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or
consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.
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4. To salute by removing the cap. [Slang. Eng.]
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Tom . . . capped the proctor with the profoundest of
bows. --Thackeray.
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5. To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to;
as, to cap text; to cap proverbs. --Shak.
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Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him
to the end of the chapter. --Dryden.
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Note: In capping verses, when one quotes a verse another must
cap it by quoting one beginning with the last letter of
the first letter, or with the first letter of the last
word, or ending with a rhyming word, or by applying any
other arbitrary rule may be agreed upon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cap \Cap\, v. i.
To uncover the head respectfully. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cap
n 1: a tight-fitting headdress
2: a top (as for a bottle)
3: a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount
of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a
disrupting explosive [syn: detonator, detonating device,
cap]
4: something serving as a cover or protection
5: a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that
forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
[syn: cap, pileus]
6: a protective covering that is part of a plant [syn: hood,
cap]
7: 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"; "they established a cap for prices" [syn:
ceiling, roof, cap]
8: (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial
crown for a broken or decayed tooth; "tomorrow my dentist
will fit me for a crown" [syn: crown, crownwork,
jacket, jacket crown, cap]
9: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
[syn: capital, chapiter, cap]
v 1: lie at the top of; "Snow capped the mountains" [syn: cap,
crest]
2: restrict the number or amount of; "We had to cap the number
of people we can accept into our club"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
301 Moby Thesaurus words for "cap":
Balmoral, Dutch cap, Panama, Panama hat, Salvation Army bonnet,
Stetson, acme, apex, apogee, ascender, astrakhan, back,
balaclava helmet, baseball cap, bastard type, beany, beard,
bearskin, beaver, befog, belly, beret, best, better, bevel,
bewilder, black letter, blanket, blasting cap, boater, body,
bonnet, boot, bowler, bracket capital, brass hat, breech, brow,
busby, button up, calash, campaign hat, cap, capital, capote,
capsheaf, caput, carry to completion, case, castor, ceil, chapeau,
chapeau bras, clean up, climax, cloak, cloche, close out, close up,
cloud nine, coat, cob, cock-and-pinch, coif, complete, conclude,
confound, confuse, consummate, cork, cornice, counter, cover,
coverchief, coxcomb, crest, crown, culmen, culminate, culmination,
derby, descender, detonating powder, detonator, dome, edge,
electric detonator, em, en, end, exceed, excel, exploder,
extreme limit, extremity, face, fantail, fat-faced type, feet, fez,
finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, font, frock, frost,
fulminating mercury, fuse, get done, get it over, get through,
get through with, give in kind, go one better, gown, groove,
handkerchief, hard hat, hat, head, headcloth, headdress, headgear,
heading, headpiece, headtire, headwear, heaven, heavens, height,
helmet, high noon, highest pitch, highest point, homburg, hood,
ice, improve on, italic, jacket, jockey cap, kaffiyeh, kelly, kepi,
kerchief, leghorn, letter, lex talionis, lid, ligature, limit,
logotype, lower case, majuscule, mantle, match, maximum,
mercury fulminate, meridian, millinery, minuscule, mobcap, mop up,
mortarboard, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, nick, nightcap,
no place higher, noon, opera hat, operculum, outshine, outstrip,
outtop, outweigh, overarch, overbalance, overbear, overcast,
overcome, overlay, overpass, overseas cap, overspread, overtop,
pass, peak, peaked cap, percussion cap, perfect, perplex, pi, pica,
picture hat, pillbox, pinhead, pinnacle, pitch, pith hat,
pith helmet, plug, point, poke, pole, porkpie, pose, predominate,
preponderate, prevail, primacord, primer, priming, print, puggree,
repay in kind, return the compliment, return the like, ridge,
roman, roof, roof in, round out, rumal, sailor, sans serif,
scraper, script, seventh heaven, shank, shirt, shoe, shoulder,
shovel hat, silk hat, skullcap, sky, slouch hat, small cap,
small capital, snood, sock, sombrero, spire, squib, stamp, stem,
stocking, stopper, stovepipe, stumble, summit, sun hat, sun helmet,
sunbonnet, sundown, surmount, surpass, tam, ten-gallon hat,
terminate, tin hat, tip, tip-top, top, top hat, top off, top out,
topee, topknot, topper, tower above, tower over, transcend, trilby,
trump, turban, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase,
typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, tyrolean hat, upmost,
upper case, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, vertex, very top,
wide-awake, wimple, wind up, wind-cutter, wrap up, yarmulka,
zenith
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
CAP
Carrierless Amplitude Phase [modulation] (ADSL, AT&T)
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
CAP
Common Alerting Protocol (XML, OASIS)
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
CAP
Communications-electronics Accommodation Program
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
CAP
Component Approval Process
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
CAP
Computer Aided Planning (CIM)
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
CAP
Computer Aided Publishing
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
CAP
Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
CAP
1. Columbia AppleTalk Package.
2. Carrierless Amplitude/Phase Modulation.
3. Competitive Access Provider