Cap Word Meaning

Old English cæppe ‘hood’, from late Latin cappa, perhaps from Latin caput ‘head’

a kind of soft, flat hat, typically with a peak

hat

• a man wearing a raincoat and a flat cap
• her cap of dark hair

a protective lid or cover for an object such as a bottle, the point of a pen, or a camera lens

lid or cover

• a glass bottle with a screw cap
• a lens cap from a camera

an upper limit imposed on spending or borrowing

upper limit

• he raised the cap on local authority spending

a contraceptive diaphragm.

contraceptive

the broad upper part of the fruiting body of most mushrooms and toadstools, at the top of a stem and bearing gills or pores.

top of mushroom or toadstool

explosive

put a lid or cover on

cover

• he capped his pen

provide a fitting climax or conclusion to

be climax of

• he capped a memorable season by becoming champion of champions

place a limit or restriction on (prices, expenditure, or borrowing)

put limit on

• council budgets will be capped

be chosen as a member of a particular sports team, especially a national one

choose for team

• he was capped ten times by England

confer a university degree on.

give academic degree to