capitalise

«capitalise» in Mova's school dictionary: To write a letter as a capital (A, B, C) or start a word… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (capitalise, capitalises, capitalised, capitalising)

meaning for a pupil

1) To write a letter as a capital (A, B, C) or start a word with a capital letter. tree →

2) To use a situation to get an advantage: «capitalise on a mistake». tree →

3) (money) To provide money (capital) for a business. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons, you capitalise the first word of a sentence, names, days, months, «I» and places. In sport and stories, a team capitalises on the other team's mistakes. Phrase: capitalise on.

examples

• Remember to capitalise the first word of every sentence. tree →
• Capitalise names like London and Monday. tree →
• Our team capitalised on their mistake and scored. tree →
• She capitalised on her success to start a shop. tree →
• Don't capitalise the whole word – it looks like shouting. tree →

note

UK spelling: capitalise; US spelling: capitalize. Use «capitalise on» for taking advantage.

Trees and pragmatics

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