cap

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A soft, close-fitting hat, often with a part that sticks out at the front.

   The children all wore caps to protect them from the sun.

2. 2
   noun

   A cover or lid that fits tightly over the top of something.

   He took the cap off the bottle and poured a drink.

3. 3
   noun

   An upper limit set on an amount or number.

   The government put a cap on the price of basic foods.

4. 4
   verb

   To set an upper limit on an amount or number.

   They had to cap the number of people allowed into the club.

5. 5
   verb

   To cover or lie on top of something.

   Snow capped the mountains all through the winter.

Multiword verbs with cap

• cap off Phrasal verb B1

  to complete an event or activity with a final notable action

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Simplified etymology

Cap goes back through Old English to Latin cappa, “hood,” a word that may be related to Latin caput, “head.” The same cappa is also the source of cape in its clothing sense and ultimately of chaperone.

Etymology tree Late Latin cappabor. Proto-West Germanic *kappā Proto-West Germanic *kappijā Old English cæppe Middle English cappe English cap Inherited from Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Proto-West Germanic *kappā (“covering, hood, mantle”), from Late Latin cappa, itself from Latin caput. Doublet of cape, chape, and cope.

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