cap

1. (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.transitive

2. (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.transitive

3. (transitive) To lie over or on top of something.transitive

4. (transitive) To surpass or outdo.transitive

5. (transitive) To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.Examples: "to cap wages"; "It recalls the business case for Scotland's reopening of the Borders Railway to Tweedbank, that British Rail closed in 1969. The review says the business case for this was at best borderline, but goes on to say that the case greatly underestimated passenger demand and that the railway Scotland built has capped its capacity."transitive

6. (transitive, figurative) To conclude; to make something even more wonderful at the end.Examples: "That really capped my day."; "Ms. Yaccarino’s exit caps a tumultuous period at X, which was previously called Twitter and has been remade in Mr. Musk’s image since he bought the platform for $44 billion in 2022."figurativelytransitive

1. (finance) Capitalization.

2. (informal) A capital letter.informal

3. (electronics) A capacitor.Examples: "parasitic caps"; "I had to replace the caps in that thing to get it to work again."

4. (colloquial) Clipping of capture; a recording or screenshot.Examples: "Anyone have a cap of the games last night?"; "If you have a cap of Gabby's bare butt from the "forget me not" episode please post or mail it..."; "Here's a cap of Jennifer from her latest Letterman appearance […]"abbreviationalt-ofclippingcolloquial

5. (slang) A capsule of a drug.Examples: "Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters."slang

6. (colloquial) A capitalist.colloquial

1. (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.informaltransitive

2. (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.Examples: "I've capped in VCD format, so will eventually post it to abme (I've since found out that it's a bit OT for this group)"; "Please tell me someone capped it!!!!"; "If I had a method of capping from video tapes there's a movie that I can no longer remember the name of which has a single scene with Racquel and Derrick as a newly married couple having sex under the lustful eyes of Joey Silvera."transitive

3. (transitive, video games) To capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.Examples: "Call your friends and bring a gun / The Halo revolution's on / Capping flags and arming bombs / Yes, we don't blink until we're done"transitive

4. (transitive, intransitive, video games) To capitulate (cause to capitulate) an opponent.intransitivetransitive

1. (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.obsolete

1. (medicine) Initialism of community-acquired pneumonia.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable

2. (computing theory) Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable