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Synonyms for cap
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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. capnoun

    a tight-fitting headdress

    Synonyms:
    detonating device, crownwork, chapiter, roof, ceiling, crown, detonator, capital, pileus, hood, jacket, jacket crown

  2. capnoun

    a top (as for a bottle)

    Synonyms:
    detonating device, crownwork, chapiter, roof, ceiling, crown, detonator, capital, pileus, hood, jacket, jacket crown

  3. detonator, detonating device, capnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    detonating device, crownwork, chapiter, roof, ceiling, crown, detonator, capital, pileus, hood, jacket, jacket crown

  4. capnoun

    something serving as a cover or protection

    Synonyms:
    detonating device, crownwork, chapiter, roof, ceiling, crown, detonator, capital, pileus, hood, jacket, jacket crown

  5. cap, pileusnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    detonating device, crownwork, chapiter, roof, ceiling, crown, detonator, capital, pileus, hood, jacket, jacket crown

  6. hood, capnoun

    a protective covering that is part of a plant

    Synonyms:
    crown, lens hood, hoodlum, cowl, toughie, capital, jacket, detonator, hood, cowling, roof, tough, goon, ceiling, chapiter, jacket crown, strong-armer, detonating device, pileus, bonnet, exhaust hood, punk, thug, crownwork

  7. ceiling, roof, capnoun

    an upper limit on what is allowed

    "he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him"; "there was a roof on salaries"; "they established a cap for prices"

    Synonyms:
    detonating device, crownwork, chapiter, roof, ceiling, crown, detonator, capital, pileus, hood, jacket, jacket crown

  8. crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown, capnoun

    (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth

    "tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown"

    Synonyms:
    crown, detonator, crest, pennant, capital, tip, roof, poll, pate, jacket, crownwork, ceiling, chapiter, top, diadem, jacket crown, treetop, detonating device, hood, pileus, peak, summit

  9. capital, chapiter, capverb

    the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

    Synonyms:
    crown, majuscule, jacket, detonator, uppercase, hood, capital, roof, upper-case letter, ceiling, chapiter, capital letter, jacket crown, detonating device, pileus, working capital, crownwork

  10. cap, crestverb

    lie at the top of

    "Snow capped the mountains"

    Synonyms:
    crest

  11. capverb

    restrict the number or amount of

    "We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club"

    Synonyms:
    crest

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. capverb

    Synonyms:
    crown, complete, finish

  2. capverb

    Synonyms:
    exceed, surpass, transcend, overtop

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "cap":

    chap, acan, plug, ceiling, pac, ahrc, spp, apc, cape, lid, acans, kap, pag, cover, hat, gap, stopper, cfp, limit, capping, bonnet, alm, skp, gsp, ceilings, caps, clp, nerve, apg, aac

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD5.0 / 2 votes

  1. CAP

    Synonyms:
    Catabolite activator protein, see there

  2. CAP

    Synonyms:
    Copper-associated protein

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How to use cap in a sentence?

  1. Famous Proverb:

    Faith in a lord, a cap for the fool.

  2. Alex Engel:

    A cap at that speed is meaningless, a vehicle traveling 112 mph is incompatible with human life on city streets.

  3. Gary Bettman:

    We have a fairly large escrow to be made up, and until we do, the cap is basically flat, the increase in value obviously is going to shorten the timeframe that perhaps many had projected when we did the return to play for last season and extended the collective bargaining agreement.

  4. Joe Biden:

    Raising the cap, raising the retirement age for people who are now 30 years old, raising the tax on Social Security, cutting benefits, they’re all things that have to be discussed, quite frankly.

  5. Hunter S. Thompson:

    A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.


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