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Antonyms for cap
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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. capnoun

    a tight-fitting headdress

    Synonyms:
    detonating device, crownwork, chapiter, roof, ceiling, crown, detonator, capital, pileus, hood, jacket, jacket crown

  2. capnoun

    a top (as for a bottle)

    Synonyms:
    detonating device, crownwork, chapiter, roof, ceiling, crown, detonator, capital, pileus, hood, jacket, jacket crown

  3. detonator, detonating device, capnoun

    a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive

    Synonyms:
    detonating device, crownwork, chapiter, roof, ceiling, crown, detonator, capital, pileus, hood, jacket, jacket crown

  4. capnoun

    something serving as a cover or protection

    Synonyms:
    detonating device, crownwork, chapiter, roof, ceiling, crown, detonator, capital, pileus, hood, jacket, jacket crown

  5. cap, pileusnoun

    a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom

    Synonyms:
    detonating device, crownwork, chapiter, roof, ceiling, crown, detonator, capital, pileus, hood, jacket, jacket crown

  6. hood, capnoun

    a protective covering that is part of a plant

    Synonyms:
    crown, lens hood, hoodlum, cowl, toughie, capital, jacket, detonator, hood, cowling, roof, tough, goon, ceiling, chapiter, jacket crown, strong-armer, detonating device, pileus, bonnet, exhaust hood, punk, thug, crownwork

  7. ceiling, roof, capnoun

    an upper limit on what is allowed

    "he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him"; "there was a roof on salaries"; "they established a cap for prices"

    Synonyms:
    detonating device, crownwork, chapiter, roof, ceiling, crown, detonator, capital, pileus, hood, jacket, jacket crown

  8. crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown, capnoun

    (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth

    "tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown"

    Synonyms:
    crown, detonator, crest, pennant, capital, tip, roof, poll, pate, jacket, crownwork, ceiling, chapiter, top, diadem, jacket crown, treetop, detonating device, hood, pileus, peak, summit

  9. capital, chapiter, capverb

    the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

    Synonyms:
    crown, majuscule, jacket, detonator, uppercase, hood, capital, roof, upper-case letter, ceiling, chapiter, capital letter, jacket crown, detonating device, pileus, working capital, crownwork

  10. cap, crestverb

    lie at the top of

    "Snow capped the mountains"

    Synonyms:
    crest

  11. capverb

    restrict the number or amount of

    "We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club"

    Synonyms:
    crest

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD5.0 / 2 votes

  1. CAP

    Synonyms:
    Catabolite activator protein, see there

  2. CAP

    Synonyms:
    Copper-associated protein

How to use cap in a sentence?

  1. Kim Forrest:

    The smaller names aren’t in everybody’s portfolio, the bigger names are, that’s why I would assume retail and institutional investors are selling their tech, maybe the big cap is really the consumer-focused tech and media names and they deserve the selloff because they are not performing.

  2. Andreas Park:

    I think this move pre-empts regulation, or a cap on fees as it were, I think this is also a nod toward brokers who are not very happy about having to pay high taker fees.

  3. Greg Peters:

    We are in this slow-growth world, The U.S. looks solid relative to everyone else, but the global construct is slowing. That serves as a cap for growth here in the U.S. and inflation is the same story. If anything, the bias is for disinflation and deflation instead of inflation.

  4. Max Breier:

    It's really just a function of investors looking to protect their gains, in a market cap-weighted ETF like the XLV, if you get a number of the top-weighted names kind of disappointing at once you can get a pretty violent reaction.

  5. Bill McKibben:

    With all the lobbyists on earth, environmentalists couldn't get cap and trade done.

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