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Type Words
Synonyms hood
Type of cover, covering, natural covering
Type Words
Synonyms crest
Type of lie


Snow capped the mountains.
Type Words
Synonyms capital, chapiter
Type of top
Type Words
Synonyms pileus
Type of plant structure, plant part
Type Words
Synonyms detonating device, detonator
Type of explosive device
Has types percussion cap, blasting cap
Type Words
Synonyms ceiling, roof
Type of control
Has types glass ceiling


they established a cap for prices.
Type Words
Synonyms crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown
Type of dental appliance
Type Words
Type of headdress, headgear
Has types coonskin cap, coxcomb, fez, flat cap, bluebonnet, balaclava helmet, balmoral, baseball cap, bathing cap, beret, berretta, biggin, biretta, birretta, balaclava, calpac, calpack, cloth cap, cockscomb, coonskin, glengarry, golf cap, jockey cap, kalansuwa, kalpac, kepi, liberty cap, mobcap, mortarboard, nightcap, overseas cap, peaked cap, pinner, sailor cap, service cap, shower cap, ski cap, skullcap, stocking cap, swimming cap, tam, tam-o'-shanter, tammy, tarboosh, toboggan cap, watch cap, wishing cap, yachting cap, garrison cap
Type Words
Type of top, cover
Has types radiator cap, nipple, bottlecap
Type Words
Type of circumscribe, confine to, limit


We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club.
Type Words
Type of protective covering, protective cover, protection
Has types lens cover, collet, distributor cap, hubcap, lens cap, ferrule, thimble

Examples of cap

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Joel Quenneville said it was purely a procedural move related to the salary cap.
From the dailyherald.com
Berry closes the cap, gathers the rest of his cargo and walks to another corner.
From the thenewstribune.com
Republicans are floating a proposal to impose a permanent cap on state spending.
From the sacbee.com
It's not like the Avs don't have cap space to absorb the salary for this season.
From the denverpost.com
Large-cap stocks offer more stability, specially the ones that are value priced.
From the usatoday.com
Tax cap legislation changed the way the district had to construct its borrowing.
From the dailyherald.com
If he gets suspended again, I'd probably cut him and eat the salary cap expense.
From the post-gazette.com
General Motors has said the cap could hinder future sales of the Chevrolet Volt.
From the courier-journal.com
Different versions of a property tax cap have passed the Senate in recent years.
From the sfgate.com
More examples
  • A tight-fitting headdress
  • Lie at the top of; "Snow capped the mountains"
  • A top (as for a bottle)
  • Restrict the number or amount of; "We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club"
  • Detonator: a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive
  • Something serving as a cover or protection
  • A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor. ...
  • A cap is a form of headgear. Caps have crowns that fit very close to the head and have no brim or only a visor. They are typically designed for warmth and, when including a visor, blocking sunlight from the eyes. They come in many shapes and sizes
  • The cap of a crown is the cap which fills the inner space of a modern crown. While ancient crowns contained no cap, from mediaeval times it became traditional to fill the circlet with a cap of velvet or other such cloth, with a base of ermine.