capped
part of speech
adjective (capped); verb, past form of cap (cap, caps, capped, capping)
meaning for a pupil
1) Covered at the top: snow-capped mountains. tree →
2) Having a top limit put on it: prices are capped at £5. tree →
3) (UK, sport) Chosen to play for your national team: capped for England. tree →
4) (teeth) Covered with an artificial crown by a dentist. tree →
sense in the lessons
In geography, snow-capped peaks. In money and news, capped prices or bills mean they cannot go above a limit. In UK sport, a player «capped 50 times» has played 50 international matches. In maths problems, «capped at 10» means the most it can be is 10.
examples
- We saw snow-capped mountains in the Alps. tree →
- Bus fares are capped at £2. tree →
- He was capped for Wales at the age of nineteen. tree →
- The dentist capped my broken tooth. tree →
- Screen time is capped at one hour a day in our house. tree →
- The pen was capped so it would not dry out. tree →
- One snow-capped peak after another rose before him, till the whole of the glittering Alpine range became visible. tree →
note
Double «p»: capped, capping. Maths: if a cost is capped at 10, then 12 becomes 10; values under 10 stay the same.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «capped» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.