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# capped

«capped» in Mova's school dictionary: **Covered at the top: snow-capped mountains** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (capped); verb, past form of cap (cap, caps, capped, capping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Covered at the top: snow-capped mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#m1)

2) Having a top limit put on it: prices are capped at £5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#m2)

3) (UK, sport) Chosen to play for your national team: capped for England. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#m3)

4) (teeth) Covered with an artificial crown by a dentist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, snow-capped peaks. In money and news, capped prices or bills mean they cannot go above a limit. In UK sport, a player «capped 50 times» has played 50 international matches. In maths problems, «capped at 10» means the most it can be is 10.

### examples

- We saw snow-capped mountains in the Alps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x1)
- Bus fares are capped at £2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x2)
- He was capped for Wales at the age of nineteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x3)
- The dentist capped my broken tooth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x4)
- Screen time is capped at one hour a day in our house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x5)
- The pen was capped so it would not dry out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x6)
- One snow-capped peak after another rose before him, till the whole of the glittering Alpine range became visible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x7)

### note

Double «p»: capped, capping. Maths: if a cost is capped at 10, then 12 becomes 10; values under 10 stay the same.

### Trees and pragmatics

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