cap
/kæp/ noun A1- A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked. · The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
- A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
- An academic mortarboard.
- A protective cover or seal. · He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
- A crown for covering a tooth. · He had golden caps on his teeth.
- The summit of a mountain, etc. · There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling. · We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
- The top part of a mushroom.
Plural caps
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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As for the little old woman, she took off her cap and balanced the point on the end of her nose, while she counted “One, two, three” in a solemn voice.
At once the cap changed to a slate, on which was written in big, white chalk marks:
So the Wicked Witch took the Golden Cap from her cupboard and placed it upon her head.
Her bees and her crows and her wolves were lying in heaps and drying up, and she had used up all the power of the Golden Cap; but if she could only get hold of the Silver Shoes, they would give her more power than all the other things she had lost.
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