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Antonyms for caps

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : kap
Phonetic Transcription : kæp

Definition of caps

Origin :
  • late Old English cæppe "hood, head-covering, cape," from Late Latin cappa "a cape, hooded cloak" (source of Spanish capa, Old North French cape, French chape), possibly a shortened from capitulare "headdress," from Latin caput "head" (see head (n.)).
  • Meaning "women's head covering" is early 13c. in English; extended to men late 14c. Figurative thinking cap is from 1839 (considering cap is 1650s). Of cap-like coverings on the ends of anything (e.g. hub-cap) from mid-15c. Meaning "contraceptive device" is first recorded 1916. That of "cap-shaped piece of copper lined with gunpowder and used to ignite a firearm" is c.1826; extended to paper version used in toy pistols, 1872 (cap-pistol is from 1879).
  • The Late Latin word apparently originally meant "a woman's head-covering," but the sense was transferred to "hood of a cloak," then to "cloak" itself, though the various senses co-existed. Old English took in two forms of the Late Latin word, one meaning "head-covering," the other "ecclesiastical dress" (see cape (n.1)). In most Romance languages, a diminutive of Late Latin cappa has become the usual word for "head-covering" (e.g. French chapeau).
  • noun small hat
  • verb outdo a performance
Example sentences :
  • Then the caps were placed on rollers, and hauled up by gangs of men.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • At the university the caps and gowns are all turning into head-pieces and steel fronts.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • His head was indeed so large that he had to have two caps to make him one.
  • Extract from : « The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence » by William Lawrence
  • Especially in Bohemia, where many of its daughters set their caps for him.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • The caps were obtusely convex and of a grayish rufescent color.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • It is one of the plants in which the stems may be cooked with the caps.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • The caps were about an inch broad and the stems were an inch and a half long.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • The plants are usually smaller, and the caps are more or less conical.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • They grow in groups so closely crowded that the caps are often quite irregular.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • The margin of the cap is very thin and the caps are irregularly funnel-form.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard

Synonyms for caps

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