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capped

/kap/US // kæp //UK // (kæp) //

封顶,上限,封顶的,有顶

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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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.
v.有主动词 verb
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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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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

verboutdo a performance

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.