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Definition of Cap

1. Noun. A tight-fitting headdress.

2. Verb. Lie at the top of. "Snow capped the mountains"

3. Noun. A top (as for a bottle).

4. Verb. Restrict the number or amount of. "We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club"

5. Noun. A mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive.

6. Noun. Something serving as a cover or protection.

7. Noun. A fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom.

8. Noun. A protective covering that is part of a plant.

9. Noun. An upper limit on what is allowed. "They established a cap for prices"

10. Noun. (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth. "Tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown"

11. Noun. The upper part of a column that supports the entablature.

Definition of Cap

1. n. A covering for the head

2. v. t. To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.

3. v. i. To uncover the head respectfully.

Definition of Cap

1. to provide with a cap (a type of head covering) [v CAPPED, CAPPING, CAPS]

Medical Definition of Cap

1. Catabolite (gene) activator protein. 1. Any anatomical structure that resembles a cap or cover. 2. A protective covering for an incomplete tooth. 3. Colloquialism for restoration of the coronal part of a natural tooth by means of an artificial crown. 4. The nucleotide structure found at the 5' terminus of many eukaryotic messenger RNAs, consisting of a 7-methylguanosine connected, via its 5'-hydroxyl group, by a triphosphate group to the 5'-hydroxyl group of the first nucleoside encoded by the DNA; usually symbolised as m7G5'ppp5'N, where N is nucleoside number 1 in the transcribed mRNA and is often itself methylated; the cap is added posttranscriptionally. (05 Mar 2000)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cap

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