capital
part of speech
noun (a capital, capitals); adjective (capital)
meaning for a pupil
1) A capital (city) is the city where a country's or state's government is. tree →
2) A capital (letter) is a big letter, like A, B, C. tree →
3) Capital is money used to start or run a business. tree →
4) Capital punishment is the punishment of death (in law). tree →
5) Capital can also mean excellent or very good, an old-fashioned word of praise. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means the carved top part of a pillar. The pillars of the Tabernacle court had capitals overlaid with silver. The great pillars of Solomon's Temple had capitals decorated with lily-work and chain-work nets. In the primary lessons: In geography, London is the capital of the UK, Washington, D.C. of the USA, Ottawa of Canada, Canberra of Australia, Wellington of New Zealand and Dublin of Ireland; states and provinces also have capitals. In English lessons, use a capital letter at the start of a sentence, for names of people and places, for «I», days and months. In maths and business, «capital» is money to start a shop.
examples
- And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them. (Torah EXO.38.28, JPS 1917) tree →
- and the five pillars of it with their hooks; and he overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold; and their five sockets were of brass. (Torah EXO.36.38, JPS 1917) tree →
- And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver. (Torah EXO.38.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits. (Prophets 1KI.7.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. (Writings 2CH.3.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- He also made nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars: seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital. (Prophets 1KI.7.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- Paris is the capital of France. tree →
- Start every sentence with a capital letter. tree →
- Canberra, not Sydney, is the capital of Australia. tree →
- Write your name in capitals. tree →
- Ottawa is the capital of Canada. tree →
- «I» is always a capital letter. tree →
- They needed capital to open the bakery. tree →
- Albany is the capital of New York State. tree →
- Ah, yes; sleep is a capital invention. tree →
note
Countable: a capital, capitals. Trap: «capital» (the city) vs «Capitol» (the building in Washington where Congress meets). Many capitals are not the biggest city: Canberra (not Sydney), Ottawa (not Toronto), Washington (not New York). «Capital letters» = «upper case».
In the corpora
- And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
- He is running about lighting lamps and candles: «What a capital little house this is!
- «What a capital little house this is! … Everything here and everything in its place!» (Capital = excellent.)
- Capital letters go at the start of sentences and names only, never in the middle of words.
- It starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «capital» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.