as in pill
a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally
I prefer to take my medicine as caps rather than in liquid form
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as in hat
a covering for the head usually having a shaped crown
grabbed a cap and plopped it on his head before running out
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as in limit
a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go
a cap on player salary expenditures was suggested as a way to keep small market teams competitive
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as in to limit
to set bounds or an upper limit for
the senator will propose a bill to cap prices for home heating oil
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Recent Examples of cap
Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
Jarod Venegas of Corona dressed in a white wrap, wearing a red cap topped by a gold halo.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Its sale to American Exchange Group caps a stunning fall driven by over-expansion, fading hype, and strategic missteps that turned a DTC darling into a cautionary tale, Fortune’s Phil Wahba reports.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
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Noun
The Sharks, per PuckPedia, have roughly $61 million in salary commitments to 11 forwards, 2 defensemen, and 2 goalies for next season, leaving them with over $43 million in available cap space.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
Jarod Venegas of Corona dressed in a white wrap, wearing a red cap topped by a gold halo.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
Blue Owl capped both at 5% withdrawals, as is industry standard.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Its sale to American Exchange Group caps a stunning fall driven by over-expansion, fading hype, and strategic missteps that turned a DTC darling into a cautionary tale, Fortune’s Phil Wahba reports.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
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Social Circle doesn't have the infrastructure needed for a facility of that size, noting the town's water permit is limited to just one million gallons a day.—
Nakell Williams,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Prices are subject to rapid, unpredictable changes due to factors like, but not limited to, supply/demand, weather, and geopolitical events.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards were created in 2012 to restrict pollution from coal and oil-fired power plants – namely mercury, a neurotoxin that can cause brain and nervous system damage.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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In conventional approaches such as surface codes, qubits are typically limited to interacting with their nearest neighbors, restricting how efficiently information can be processed.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Cap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cap. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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