Caps can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| cap - lie at the top of; "Snow capped the mountains" | ||
| cap - restrict the number or amount of; "We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club" | ||
Noun |
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| cap - a tight-fitting headdress | ||
| cap - something serving as a cover or protection | ||
| cap - a top (as for a bottle) | ||
| cap - a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom | ||
| cap - a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive | ||
| cap - an upper limit on what is allowed; "he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him"; "there was a roof on salaries"; "they established a cap for prices" | ||
| cap - a protective covering that is part of a plant | ||
| cap - the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | ||
| cap - (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth; "tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown" |
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| 1. | noun | The central question behind the palace coup is whether Terry Winter, the president of the Independent System Operator, acted alone when he took steps to remove key price caps designed to limit the amount power generators could charge. | |
| 2. | noun | Winter defied his own board and Gov. Gray Davis when he filed a 50-page request to remove the caps, records and interviews show. | |
| 3. | noun | At the time, generators were refusing to sell power in California because of the price caps. | |
| 4. | noun | Although there is nothing illegal about the generators acting together to lobby against price caps, Dunn believes the letters and other actions around the same time showed clear coordination among energy officials. | |
| 5. | noun | In the Oct. 31 letters, electricity producers told federal officials that if price caps weren't removed it would lead to a collapse of the energy market. | |
| 6. | noun | With the price caps gone, the generators filed paperwork with federal regulators justifying higher costs. | |
| 7. | noun | How many caps do you own? | |
| 8. | noun | Rising pollution levels contributed to the greenhouse effect that would lead to partially melting the polar ice caps. | |
| 9. | noun | The ice caps are melting. | |
| 10. | noun | While you're in the classroom, take off your caps! | |
| 11. | noun | Take off your caps in the classroom! | |
| 12. | noun | Cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya. | |
| 13. | noun | He has the most international caps, but there are better players in the squad. | |
| 14. | noun | The polar caps partially melted and the sea level rose about a metre, so that more than a billion people on coastal areas had to be evacuated. | |
| 15. | noun | I have several caps. | |
| 16. | verb | Now, FLDS leader Warren Jeffs has been added to the FBI's list of "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives," a move that caps law enforcement's dramatic change of approach toward the polygamous group in recent years...[because of] the impact that the group's practices, law enforcement officials say, are having on the most vulnerable within the sect, particularly children and women. | |
| 17. | verb | We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club. | |
| 18. | verb | Put your thinking cap on! | |
| 19. | verb | To cap it all, it began to rain. | |
| 20. | verb | Congress approved legislation in December 2016 to cap public spending. | |
| 21. | verb | Put your thinking cap on! | |
| 22. | verb | To cap it all, it began to rain. | |
| 23. | verb | Congress approved legislation in December 2016 to cap public spending. |
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| noun | |
| The central question behind the palace coup is whether Terry Winter, the president of the Independent System Operator, acted alone when he took steps to remove key price caps designed to limit the amount power generators could charge. |
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| Winter defied his own board and Gov. Gray Davis when he filed a 50-page request to remove the caps, records and interviews show. |
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| At the time, generators were refusing to sell power in California because of the price caps. |
|
| Although there is nothing illegal about the generators acting together to lobby against price caps, Dunn believes the letters and other actions around the same time showed clear coordination among energy officials. |
|
| In the Oct. 31 letters, electricity producers told federal officials that if price caps weren't removed it would lead to a collapse of the energy market. |
|
| With the price caps gone, the generators filed paperwork with federal regulators justifying higher costs. |
|
| How many caps do you own? | |
| Rising pollution levels contributed to the greenhouse effect that would lead to partially melting the polar ice caps. | |
| The ice caps are melting. | |
| While you're in the classroom, take off your caps! | |
| Take off your caps in the classroom! | |
| Cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya. | |
| He has the most international caps, but there are better players in the squad. | |
| The polar caps partially melted and the sea level rose about a metre, so that more than a billion people on coastal areas had to be evacuated. | |
| I have several caps. | |
| verb | |
| Now, FLDS leader Warren Jeffs has been added to the FBI's list of "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives," a move that caps law enforcement's dramatic change of approach toward the polygamous group in recent years...[because of] the impact that the group's practices, law enforcement officials say, are having on the most vulnerable within the sect, particularly children and women. |
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| We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club. |
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| Put your thinking cap on! | |
| To cap it all, it began to rain. | |
| Congress approved legislation in December 2016 to cap public spending. | |
| Put your thinking cap on! | |
| To cap it all, it began to rain. | |
| Congress approved legislation in December 2016 to cap public spending. | |