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Vinony

cap

noun

  1. brimless head covering, sometimes made with a visor
  2. lying, usually to excuse or explain away something unpleasant
  3. act of putting the top on something
L9708 on Wikidata ↗

verb

  1. to close or seal with a cap
  2. to lie, usually to excuse or explain away something unpleasant
  3. put the top on
  4. bring to an end
L9709 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kæp/ / [kʰæp]

name

  1. Initialism of Common Agricultural Policy.

    “The fact remains that if Ukraine joins, the CAP budget will either have to be increased dramatically or will evaporate, given the sheer area of agricultural land in Ukraine (it’s bigger than the whole of Italy), with the average farm taking up about 1,000 hectares compared to 16 hectares in the rest of the EU.”

  2. Initialism of Civil Air Patrol.
  3. Initialism of Colleague Assistance Program.

noun

  1. Initialism of conservation action plan.
  2. Initialism of catabolite activator protein.
  3. Initialism of community-acquired pneumonia.
  4. Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem.
  5. Initialism of combat air patrol.
  6. Initialism of change acceleration process.
  7. Initialism of cold atmospheric plasma.
  8. Initialism of colors and placements.

verb

Etymology: Various clippings.

  1. To convert text to uppercase.
  2. To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.

    “I've capped in VCD format, so will eventually post it to abme (I've since found out that it's a bit OT for this group)”

    “Please tell me someone capped it!!!!”

  3. To capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.

    “Call your friends and bring a gun / The Halo revolution's on / Capping flags and arming bombs / Yes, we don't blink until we're done”

  4. To capitulate (cause to capitulate) an opponent.