cap

«cap» in Mova's school dictionary: a soft hat, often with a peak at the front, like a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cap, caps); verb (cap, caps, capped)

meaning for a pupil

1) A cap is a soft hat, often with a peak at the front, like a baseball cap. tree →

2) A cap is a small lid on a bottle, a pen or a tube. tree →

3) In sport, a cap is a place in the national team. tree →

4) To cap is to put a limit or top on something. tree →

sense in the lessons

a thing collected and counted, most often bottle caps found or thrown away; a sun cap protects from the sun; phrases: «bottle cap», «baseball cap», «put the cap back on», «swimming cap»

examples

• Danny had 25 bottle caps. tree →
• He found 18 more bottle caps at the park. tree →
• He threw away 12 old caps. tree →
• How many more caps than wrappers did he find? tree →
• Wear a cap in the sun. tree →
• Put the cap back on the glue stick. tree →
• Swimmers wear a swimming cap in the pool. tree →
• He wore his baseball cap backwards. tree →
• They all whipped off their caps. tree →

note

Countable: a cap, caps. A thing counted. «found» adds, «threw away» takes away. Trap: caps and wrappers are often counted side by side; keep them apart. Trap: «cap» (hat) is not «cup» (for drinking).

In the corpora

• In Britain blue caps usually mean whole milk, green semi-skimmed and red skimmed, which has had most of its fat taken out.
• In late summer the beekeeper slices the wax caps off heavy frames and spins the honey out in a drum called an extractor.
• Its red cap is bare skin, and in China and Japan it stands for long life and luck.
• The deadliest mushroom in the world, the death cap, looks plain and tastes fine.
• His cap is missing from its peg and his new goloshes from beside the umbrella-stand.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cap» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.