1. • noun - a tight-fitting headdress
   • noun - a top (as for a bottle)
   • noun - a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive
   • noun - something serving as a cover or protection
   • noun - a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
   • noun - a protective covering that is part of a plant
   • noun - an upper limit on what is allowed
   • noun - (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
   • noun - the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
   • verb - lie at the top of
   • verb - restrict the number or amount of
2. • A usually soft and close-fitting head covering, either having no brim or with a visor.
   • A special head covering worn to indicate rank, occupation, or membership in a particular group: a cardinal’s cap; a sailor’s cap.
   • An academic mortarboard.
   • A protective cover or seal, especially one that closes off an end or a tip: a bottle cap; a 35-millimeter lens cap.
   • A crown for covering or sealing a tooth.
   • A tread for a worn pneumatic tire.
   • A fitted covering used to seal a well or large pipe.
   • A summit or top, as of a mountain.
   • An upper limit; a ceiling: placed a cap on mortgage rates.
   • The capital of a column.
   • Botany.
   • The top part, or pileus, of a mushroom.
   • A calyptra.
   • A percussion cap.
   • A small explosive charge enclosed in paper for use in a toy gun.
   • Any of several sizes of writing paper, such as foolscap.
   • To cover, protect, or seal with a cap.
   • To award a special cap to as a sign of rank or achievement: capped the new women nurses at graduation.
   • To lie over or on top of; cover: hills capped with snow.
   • To apply the finishing touch to; complete: cap a meal with dessert.
   • To follow with something better; surpass or outdo: capped his last trick with a disappearing act that brought the audience to its feet.
   • To set an upper limit on: decided to cap cost-of-living increases.
   • A capital letter.
3. • v - to provide with a cap (a type of head covering)

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