cap
- noun
- /kæp/
- The three of us filled paper lunch sacks with the tall, striped dwarf caps of fresh morels.
- ice cap
- polar cap
- melting ice caps
Look at the video and you can see right this big cap on top.
- Look at the video and you can see right this big cap on top.
- Ready made, as in ready to wear nails like mushrooms with their floppy caps or Chinese hats.
- So she'd consumed a a young ink cap mushroom.
Examples
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♪ ♪ DAN: We'll gain a good vantage point if we can get to the peak of the ice cap before sundown.
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A typical feature of Nkanu masks is the bulging cap that surmounts the wooden part.
Academic text (2004) -
Look at the video and you can see right this big cap on top.
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The polar ice cap ...
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That's a huge snow cap in the background.
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But the cap on Greenland will have an effect.
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It has a polar cap made of some kind of snow.
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The polar ice caps have melted, covering the earth with water.
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Tall oak pilings wear white caps, on top of which seagulls pose.
Fiction book (1991) -
The mushroom's cap was vibrant and distinctly shaped, making it easy to identify.
Synonyms
The upper part or surface of an object
The top part of something, for example the raised middle of a road
The decorated top part of a column that supports the roof
The top part of a column often carved and supporting the beam above
The hat-shaped top part of a mushroom that covers the stalk
A dense head of many small flowers at the top of a plant like a daisy
A small round head of many tiny flowers at the tip of a stem
A small group of cells at the tip of a plant root that protects it as it grows through soil
Idioms
To make a big decision you cannot change that may be risky
Compounds
A thick layer of ice and snow that always covers large land areas like the poles or mountain tops
- Specialized
A company or stock with a small market value, often under one billion dollars
- US
A tight knitted wool cap that covers the head and ears, often with a point or tassel
- Specialized
A protective cover in a car engine that holds the wires to the spark plugs
- Specialized
A small cup-shaped device that fits over the cervix to prevent pregnancy
A cover for the radiator opening that holds the cooling liquid and keeps pressure
- UK
A hat with a flat round top and a stiff front that sticks out, worn by police or army
- Specialized
A small plant that lives for more than one year with a seed pod shaped like a bishop's hat
- Specialized
A screw with a finished head that you screw into a threaded hole to hold machine parts together
A very poisonous white mushroom that can kill people and is often mistaken for edible mushrooms
A small forest plant with a low leaf cluster and tiny green flowers on thin stems
- Archaic
A cone-shaped paper hat teachers put on students' heads to shame them long ago
- Specialized
A small group of cells at the tip of a plant root that protects it as it grows through soil
- US
A close-fitting knitted hat with a hanging tail or pom-pom that you wear in cold weather
A North American wildflower with orange-red spotted petals that point downward
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Cap links back to the idea of caput, meaning 'head', which you also see in capital. That's why the 'cap' of a column is its head or top part.