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# cap

«cap» in Mova's school dictionary: **a soft hat, often with a peak at the front, like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cap, caps); verb (cap, caps, capped)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cap is a soft hat, often with a peak at the front, like a baseball cap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#m1)

2) A cap is a small lid on a bottle, a pen or a tube. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#m2)

3) In sport, a cap is a place in the national team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#m3)

4) To cap is to put a limit or top on something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a thing collected and counted, most often bottle caps found or thrown away; a sun cap protects from the sun; phrases: «bottle cap», «baseball cap», «put the cap back on», «swimming cap»

### examples

- Danny had 25 bottle caps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#x1)
- He found 18 more bottle caps at the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#x2)
- He threw away 12 old caps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#x3)
- How many more caps than wrappers did he find? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#x4)
- Wear a cap in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#x5)
- Put the cap back on the glue stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#x6)
- Swimmers wear a swimming cap in the pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#x7)
- He wore his baseball cap backwards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#x8)
- They all whipped off their caps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/#x9)

### note

Countable: a cap, caps. A thing counted. «found» adds, «threw away» takes away. Trap: caps and wrappers are often counted side by side; keep them apart. Trap: «cap» (hat) is not «cup» (for drinking).

### In the corpora

- [In Britain blue caps usually mean whole milk, green semi-skimmed and red skimmed, which has had most of its fat taken out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt/15/)
- [In late summer the beekeeper slices the wax caps off heavy frames and spins the honey out in a drum called an extractor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/6/)
- [Its red cap is bare skin, and in China and Japan it stands for long life and luck.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders/5/)
- [The deadliest mushroom in the world, the death cap, looks plain and tastes fine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets/3/)
- [His cap is missing from its peg and his new goloshes from beside the umbrella-stand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cap» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cap/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.