Usually means: Limit, maximum; falsehood in slang.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAP, cap: Merriam-Webster
  2. CAP, CAP, cap, cap, cap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. CAP, cap, cap, cap, cap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cap, cap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cap: Vocabulary.com
  6. CAp, Cap, cap: Wordnik
  7. cap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cap, Cap: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. CAP, cap: Wiktionary
  10. cap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. cap, cap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. cap: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. c.a.p, cap, cap: Dictionary.com
  14. cap: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. cap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. C.A.P, CAP (protein), CAP, Cap (association football), Cap (crown), Cap (disambiguation), Cap (football), Cap (nickname), Cap (sport), Cap (sports), Cap (wine), Cap, The Cap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Cap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. cap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. cap: Rhymezone
  20. cap, cap (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. cap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. CAP, CaP, Cap, cap: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Cap, Cap: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. cap: FreeDictionary.org
  25. cap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. CAP, cap: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. cap: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. cap: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  3. cap-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. cap: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. cap: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. cap: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Derivatives (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. CAP: Accounting Glossary
  9. Cap: bizterms.net
  10. Cap: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  11. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Electronic Commerce Dictionary (No longer online)
  13. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  14. Cap: Investopedia
  15. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  16. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  17. Cap (disambiguation), cap: Legal dictionary
  18. Cap (disambiguation), cap: Financial dictionary
  19. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  20. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  21. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  22. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. CAP: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Cap (disambiguation), cap: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. cap: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. CaP: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  6. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Molecular Biology Glossary (No longer online)
  8. CAP, Cap (disambiguation): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CAP: Acronym Finder
  3. CAP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. cap: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. cap: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Cap: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. CAP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  5. CAP: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Cap: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. C.A.P, The Cap: Urban Dictionary

Sports (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cap: Dan's Poker
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. Cap: Body Building
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Cap: Poker Terms
  7. cap: Golfer's Dictionary
  8. Cap: Sports Definitions

Tech (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. cap: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. CAP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. CAP: Chapters in the Sky
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. cap: Pen Glossary
  8. Wine Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See caping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Cap)

noun:  A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
noun:  A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
noun:  An academic mortarboard.
noun:  A protective cover or seal.
noun:  A crown for covering a tooth.
noun:  The summit of a mountain, etc.
noun:  An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
noun:  The top part of a mushroom.
noun:  (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
noun:  A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
noun:  (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
noun:  (slang, originally African-American Vernacular) A lie or exaggeration.
noun:  (sports) A place on a national team; an international appearance.
noun:  (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
noun:  (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
noun:  (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
noun:  (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
noun:  Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
noun:  (nautical) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
noun:  (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
noun:  A large size of writing paper.
noun:  (Appalachia) Popcorn.
verb:  (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.
verb:  (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
verb:  (transitive) To lie over or on top of something.
verb:  (transitive) To surpass or outdo.
verb:  (transitive) To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
verb:  (transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.
verb:  (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To lie; to tell a lie.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
verb:  To deprive of a cap.
noun:  (finance) Capitalization.
noun:  (informal) A capital letter.
noun:  (electronics) A capacitor.
noun:  (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.(shortening of "capture").
noun:  (slang) A capsule of a drug.
noun:  (colloquial) A capitalist.
noun:  (anatomy) A capillary.
noun:  A caption.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.
verb:  (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
verb:  (transitive, video games) To capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, video games) To capitulate (cause to capitulate) an opponent.
noun:  (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
noun:  A nickname for the captain of a team, ship, etc.
noun:  A nickname for a man generally.
noun:  Initialism of conservation action plan.
noun:  Initialism of catabolite activator protein.
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of community-acquired pneumonia.
noun:  (computing theory) Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem. [Local coherence.]
noun:  Initialism of combat air patrol. [(military, aviation) A patrolling force of fighter aircraft tasked with covering and screening a friendly asset (such as an aircraft carrier or a flight of bombers) in order to defend it from incoming hostile aircraft.]
noun:  Initialism of change acceleration process.
noun:  Initialism of colors and placements.
noun:  (European Union) Initialism of Common Agricultural Policy.
noun:  (US) Initialism of Civil Air Patrol.
noun:  Initialism of Colleague Assistance Program.
noun:  (astrology, informal) Clipping of Capricorn. [(astronomy): Capricornus]

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