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# cape

«cape» in Mova's school dictionary: **a loose coat with no sleeves that hangs from the…** — 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 (a cape, capes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cape is a loose coat with no sleeves that hangs from the shoulders, like a short cloak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cape/#m1)

2) A cape is a piece of land that sticks out into the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cape/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and dressing up superheroes, wizards and kings wear capes. In geography a cape is a headland, like the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn; ships sailing round capes often met storms. In everyday life rain capes keep cyclists dry.

### examples

- The superhero's red cape flapped in the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cape/#x1)
- We dressed up in capes and masks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cape/#x2)
- Ships had to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cape/#x3)
- The lighthouse stands on the cape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cape/#x4)
- She wore a waterproof cape on her bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cape/#x5)
- Cape Town is a city in South Africa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cape/#x6)
- I sat and slept at the helm of their ship, as they sailed away from North Cape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cape/#x7)

### note

Countable: capes. In place names it has a capital letter (Cape Horn). A cloak is usually long; a cape is often shorter. Safety: real capes do not let you fly — never jump from high places.

### In the corpora

- [Bulls cannot see red well; a bull charges at the movement of the cape, and red is just the traditional colour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right/13/)
- [Theo plans team games with drawings: arrows, circles and a stick figure of himself with a cape.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/6/)
- [His team laughed at the cape and then won three matches in a row, because everyone knew where to go.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/7/)
- [Portuguese ships spent decades creeping down Africa's coast before Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/17/)
- [South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria for the government, Cape Town for parliament and Bloemfontein for the highest courts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/13-africa-countries-and-capitals/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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