capped
封顶,上限,封顶的,有顶
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Definitions
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- : a close-fitting covering for the head, usually of soft supple material and having no visor or brim.
- : a brimless head covering with a visor, as a baseball cap.
- : a mobcap.
- : a headdress denoting rank, occupation, religious order, or the like: a nurse's cap.
- : mortarboard.
- : Mathematics. the symbol ∩, used to indicate the intersection of two sets.Compare intersection.
- : anything resembling or suggestive of a covering for the head in shape, use, or position: a cap on a bottle.
- : summit; top; apex; acme.
- : a maximum limit, as one set by law or agreement on prices, wages, spending, etc., during a certain period of time; ceiling: a 9 percent cap on pay increases for this year.
- : Mycology. the pileus of a mushroom.
- : Botany. calyptra.
- : Mining. a short, horizontal beam at the top of a prop for supporting part of a roof.
- : a percussion cap.
- : British Sports. a selection for a representative team, usually for a national squad.
- : a noise-making device for toy pistols, made of a small quantity of explosive wrapped in paper or other thin material.
- : Nautical. a fitting of metal placed over the head of a spar, as a mast or bowsprit, and having a collar for securing an additional spar.
- : a new tread applied to a worn pneumatic tire.
- : Architecture. a capital.
- : Carpentry. a metal plate placed over the iron of a plane to break the shavings as they rise.
- : Fox Hunting. capping fee.
- : Chiefly British Slang. a contraceptive diaphragm.
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capped, cap·ping.
- : to provide or cover with or as if with a cap.
- : to complete.
- : follow up with something as good or better; surpass; outdo: to cap one joke with another.
- : to serve as a cap, covering, or top to; overlie.
- : to put a maximum limit on.
- : British Sports. to select for a representative team.
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capped, cap·ping.
- : Fox Hunting. to hunt with a hunting club of which one is not a member, on payment of a capping fee.
Phrases
- cap and gown
- cap in hand
- cap it all
- feather in one's cap
- hat (cap) in hand
- if the shoe (cap) fits, wear it
- put on one's thinking cap
- set one's cap for
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The companies also need to add additional RNA — a cap and tail — flanking the spike protein instructions to make the molecule stable and readable in human cells.
A thick, knitted cap like Madewell’s wool cuffed beanie will prevent your ears from falling off when that chilly northern wind hits you.
Some of the states most populous jurisdictions, including Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, have taken that restriction further and imposed formal caps.
In a salary cap system that prioritizes young, cheap talent, undrafted free agents are the youngest and the cheapest.
I’ve had the caps of otherwise bomber products completely shatter after one waist-high drop.
When they are full, many landfills are capped—covered with asphalt or concrete.
Snow-capped mountains emerge gently into view in the distance, covered in pine trees at the highest elevations.
Griffin screen-capped a series of direct messages that are allegedly from him.
It capped a miserable British summer of sport which also saw the country eliminated from the World Cup in the group stages.
Was there ever an alternate fate for Hank, or was he always going to get capped in the desert?
At the foot of the pass, the valley widened a little, though still with steep, snow-capped cliffs crowding it on either side.
I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.
Before us, miles away, all capped with clouds of gold and red was the sunset country, but still beyond the mountains.
And lo, this Olympian being, this unfathomable man, descended from his cloud-capped heights and held out his hand to Tchaikovsky.
From the middle rises the fortress of the Kremlin, the many churches send up a forest of dome-capped towers.