as in pill
a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally
I prefer to take my medicine as caps rather than in liquid form
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as in hat
a covering for the head usually having a shaped crown
grabbed a cap and plopped it on his head before running out
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as in limit
a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go
a cap on player salary expenditures was suggested as a way to keep small market teams competitive
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as in to limit
to set bounds or an upper limit for
the senator will propose a bill to cap prices for home heating oil
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Recent Examples of cap
Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Spectrum offers wide availability, fast speeds and straightforward month-to-month pricing with no data caps or annual contracts.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Ryan Mancini, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2025
Tuesday’s announcement caps years of struggle for Pizza Hut.
—Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
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Noun
That’s also about 70% higher than the world’s most valuable company, Nvidia, which hit a record $5 trillion market cap last week.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Spectrum offers wide availability, fast speeds and straightforward month-to-month pricing with no data caps or annual contracts.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
Ciattarelli called it an affordability crisis and has called for withdrawing from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, an agreement among Northeast states to cap their emissions.
—Ryan Mancini, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2025
Tuesday’s announcement caps years of struggle for Pizza Hut.
—Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
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Verb
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And we were limited by a poundage, and days at sea, and all these different mechanisms used to constrain the fishery.—
Dan Morrison,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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We, in collaboration with our partners, store and/or access information on a user's device, including but not limited to IP addresses, unique identifiers, and browsing data stored in cookies, in order to process personal data.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
7 Nov. 2025
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The president of the Miss Universe Organization, Raúl Rocha, also criticized the Thai businessman and restricted him from participating in further activities.—
Anabella González,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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On the same date, the facility also started restricting employees with symptoms or who had recently traveled from entering the building.—
Kevin G. Hall,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Cap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cap. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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