Usually means: Limit, maximum; falsehood in slang.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAP, cap: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  25. cap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Cap, cap: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. CAP, cap: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. cap: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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 (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. cap: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. cap: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Derivatives (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. CAP: Accounting Glossary
  8. Cap: bizterms.net
  9. Cap: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  10. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Electronic Commerce Dictionary (No longer online)
  12. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Cap: Investopedia
  14. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  15. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  16. Cap (disambiguation), cap: Legal dictionary
  17. Cap (disambiguation), cap: Financial dictionary
  18. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  19. CAP (The Common Agricultural Policy): Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  20. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  21. 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 (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. CaP: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  5. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Molecular Biology Glossary (No longer online)
  7. 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 (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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 take capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.
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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