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cap

A cap is a small hat. He was wearing blue jeans and a ball cap. A cap is a cover that closes the end of something, such as a bottle or pipe. First we need to remove the cap, then we can drain the fluid from the tank. A cap is a limit. The government should place a cap on spending for next year. A cap is small piece of explosive that is used to set off larger explosives. A cap is the top part of a mushroom. A cap is a crown for covering a tooth. A cap is the summit (top) of a mountain. A cap is a small amount of gunpowder that is used to set off a toy gun. If you "pop a cap" on someone, you shoot them with a gun. You best watch out or I'll bust a cap in your ass. A cap is an international appearance of a player in a team.

cap

If you cap something, you put a cap on it. We need to cap that pipe before turning the water back on. If you cap something, you set an upper limit on it. If something caps something, it fits on it and is a cap for it. If you cap someone, you shoot that person. If you cap something, you lie over or on top of something. If you cap something, you surpass or outdo something.

cap

a tight-fitting headdress lie at the top of Snow capped the mountains a top (as for a bottle) something serving as a cover or protection (= detonator) a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive restrict the number or amount of We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom (= hood) a protective covering that is part of a plant (= capital) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature (= ceiling, roof) 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 (= crown) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown

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Simple sentences

The boy adjusted his cap.
What is the price of this cap?
It's best to wear a cap on your head during the cold Moscow winters.
Put the cap back on the bottle in case the cat knocks it over.
The cap is too small for me.
This cap is too small. Please show me another.
Does this cap belong to you?
I paid ten dollars for this cap.
Where is your cap?
I found your cap.
I have lost my cap.
Which cap is yours?
The boy took off his cap.

Movie subtitles

It looks dandy under a Cub cap.
Venti cap.
That's a venti cap, chai tea, espresso, Americano.
Spare my life and I will give you the wonder cap.
The magic cap will change you into what you wish.
Will you put a new cap nipple on this gun?
OKAY, CAP.
Now my cap's gone in too!
I want to borrow your cap and coat.
Okay, cap.
Hi, Cap.
Where's my cap?
He never puts the cap back on the toothpaste.
And my cap, my nice cap.
Has no one seen the cap?
Say, Henry, will you put a new cap nipple on this gun?
This would have been quite a feather in your cap, wouldn't it?
This is quite a feather in your cap, isn't it?
You're next, Cap.
What you might call putting a feather in your cap with a vengeance.
Spine fractured in two places. A silver plate. My knee-cap is silver too.
Piercing gaze. Deerstalker cap.
Open the back cap.
Please open the back cap. Excellency, do you want to go up to the court ofjustice?
When you play the hero of Konjiki, I'll lend you my cap.
Brother, nice cap, isn't it?
Open the back cap. -l didn't understand.
Back cap. -Of course. Please open the back cap.
And take your cap off!
It's quite a feather in my cap, too.
This is just my old cap and gown.
That cap-pistol hoodlum!
My cap. It's too large.

News and current affairs

WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS - Born in 1957, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is now more than 50 years old, and the European Commission is proposing what it calls a health check for its middle-aged child.
The CAP must be born again.
The CAP's original aim was to provide a secure source of food for the six original member states of the Union, which were importers of food and sought a degree of self-sufficiency.
The CAP quickly came to be seen as the jewel in the crown of the European project.
Viewed from the standpoint of food security and the wealth of rural areas, there is now an urgent need to revisit the CAP's main instruments so that a new policy formula can be introduced.
A simplified CAP would encourage cleaner, more productive, and efficient agriculture.
Moreover, the CAP's role as a motor of political and social integration in Europe could be restored once renewed policies are in place.
That is a real enough danger to which policymakers must give serious thought as they reform the CAP on the basis of the following five pillars.
A new CAP should include a policy to safeguard Europe's landscapes.
But few saw, for instance, the Artic ice cap melting as rapidly as now seems to be the case.
Some companies even seem to celebrate the melting of the polar ice cap, because it will reduce the cost of extracting the oil that lies beneath the Arctic Ocean.
This flies in the face of conventional thinking, which continues to claim that mandating carbon reductions - through cap-and-trade or a carbon tax - is the only way to combat climate change.
Unfortunately, cap-and-trade systems are difficult to manage and don't give clear signals about the future price of permits.
Core samples from the Greenland ice cap, for example, show occasional sudden drops in temperature.
Because of the global recession, some international donors are threatening to cap their financial support.
A desirable way to broaden the tax base would be to put an overall cap on the amount of tax reduction that each taxpayer can achieve through deductions and exclusions.
Such an overall cap would allow each taxpayer to retain all of his existing deductions and exclusions but would limit the amount by which he could reduce his tax liability in this way.
Energy debates in the US, Australia, and other countries have centered so far on introducing a cumbersome cap-and-trade permit system.
In fact, Europe's biggest successes in promoting low-carbon energy have come from its feed-in tariffs, and carbon taxes in some countries, rather than its cap-and-trade system.
Sebagai seorang ahli ekonomi, saya memilih sistem cap-and-trade berdasarkan lelang guna menetapkan harga karbon.
And, to be sure, it would very difficult for countries to cap their trade surpluses in practice: there are simply too many macroeconomic and measurement uncertainties.
American Congressmen view the Chinese as archetypal currency manipulators, but the Swiss have introduced a firm cap on the franc's appreciation.
More recent developments may have contributed to the downward pressure on prices, including discussion about abolishing interest-rate ceilings on deposits (the cap on term deposits of one year or more was removed on August 25).
The home country must put a cap on leverage, limit acceptable liquidity and funding practices, and have a resolution regime for winding up complex financial institutions.
Fundamental reform of the Common Agricultural Policy should not remain a taboo. Indeed, the CAP is ensuring neither sustainable agriculture nor decent incomes for all farmers.
That is why, in my financial statement in the first week of December, I announced that we would lift the cap on the number of university students in the UK.