Apple vs Cap - What's the difference?
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A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica , cultivated in temperate climates.
* c. 1378 , (William Langland), Piers Plowman :
* 1815 , (Jane Austen), Emma :
* 2013 , John Vallins, The Guardian , 28 Oct 2013:
Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as (custard apple), (thorn apple) etc.
* 1658 , trans. Giambattista della Porta, Natural Magick , I.16:
* 1784 , (James Cook), A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean , II:
* 1825 , Theodric Romeyn Beck, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence , 2nd edition, p. 565:
The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book X:
* 1985 , (Barry Reckord), The White Witch :
A tree of the genus Malus , especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
* 1913 , John Weathers, Commercial Gardening , p. 38:
* 2000 PA Thomas, Trees: Their Natural History , p. 227:
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* 2012 , Terri Reid, The Everything Guide to Living Off the Grid , p. 77:
The wood of the apple tree.
(in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears , slang for stairs.
(baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball.
(informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
A close-fitting head covering either without a brim or with a peak.
A special head covering to indicate rank, occupation etc.
An academic mortarboard
A protective cover or seal
A crown for covering a tooth
The summit of a mountain etc.
An artificial upper limit or ceiling
The top part of a mushroom
A small amount of gunpowder in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun
A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives
(slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
* 2001: Charles Jade,
(soccer) An international appearance
(obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
* Fuller
(zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
(architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
(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.
(geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
A large size of writing paper.
To cover or seal with a cap
To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
To lie over or on top of something
To surpass or outdo
To set an upper limit on something
To make something even more wonderful at the end.
(cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side
(slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
(sports) to select to play for the national team.
(obsolete) To uncover the head respectfully.
* Thackeray
To deprive of a cap.
(informal) To convert text to uppercase.
As a proper noun apple
is a nickname for new york city, usually “the big apple”.As a verb cap is
to extend one's leg for walking; get a move on.apple
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(wikipedia apple)Alternative forms
* apl (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)- I prayed pieres to pulle adown an apple .
- Not that I had any doubt before – I have so often heard Mr. Woodhouse recommend a baked apple .
- Close by and under cover, I watched the juicing process. Apples were washed, then tipped, stalks and all, into the crusher and reduced to pulp.
- In Persia there grows a deadly tree, whose Apples are Poison, and present death.
- Otaheite […] is remarkable for producing great quantities of that delicious fruit we called apples , which are found in none of the others, except Eimeo.
- Hippomane mancinella. (Manchineel-tree.) Dr. Peysonnel relates that a soldier, who was a slave with the Turks, eat some of the apples of this tree, and was soon seized with a swelling and pain of the abdomen.
- Him by fraud I have seduced / From his Creator; and, the more to encrease / Your wonder, with an apple […].
- Woman ate the apple , and discovered sex, and lost all shame, and lift up her fig—leaf, and she must suffer the pains of hell. Monthly.
- If the grafted portion of an Apple or other tree were examined after one hundred years, the old cut surfaces would still be present, for mature or ripened wood, being dead, never unites.
- This allows a weak plant to benefit from the strong roots of another, or a vigorous tree (such as an apple ) to be kept small by growing on 'dwarfing rootstock'.
- Other fruit trees, like apples , need well-drained soil.
Derived terms
* Adam's apple * alligator apple * an apple a day, an apple a day keeps the doctor away * Apple * apples and oranges, apples to oranges (to compare ) * apples and pears * apple aphid, apple aphis * apple-bee * apple-berry * apple blight * apple blossom * apple borer * apple-box * apple brandy * apple brown tortrix * apple bud and leaf mite * apple bud moth * apple bud weevil * apple-bug * apple butter * apple cake * apple canker * applecart * apple charlotte * apple-cheeked * apple-cheese * apple cider * apple clearwing moth * apple core * apple-corer * apple-crook * apple crumble * appled * the apple doesn't fall far from the tree * apple domain * apple-domed * apple-dowdy * apple-drane, apple-drone * apple drops * apple dumpling * apple dumplin shop * apple-eating * apple-faced * apple-fallow * apple fly * apple fritter * apple fruit weevil * apple fruit rhynchites * apple-garth * apple geranium * apple grain aphid * apple-grass aphid * apple green, apple-green * apple-grey * apple-gum * apple head, applehead * apple-headed * apple ice wine * Apple Isle * apple-jack, applejack * apple jacks * apple jelly * apple jelly nodules * apple-john * apple juice * apple-knocker * apple leaf miner * appleless * apple liqueur * apple maggot * apple martini * apple midge * apple mint, applemint * apple-monger * apple-mose * apple-moss * apple-moth * apple nut * apple of Adam * apple of discord * apple of love * apple of Peru * apple of Sodom * apple of somebody's eye, apple of the eye * apple-oil * apple orchard * apple pandowdy * apple-pear * apple-peeler * apple-peru * apple pie * apple-plum * apple-polish * apple-polisher * apple-polishing * apple-pomice * apple potato bread * apple Punic * apple pygmy moth * apple root aphid * apple rust * apple rust mite * apples * apples and pears * apple sauce, applesauce * apple sawfly * apple scab * apple schnapps * apple-scoop * apple seed, appleseed * apple shell * apple small ermine moth * apple-snail * apple-slump * apple snow * apples of gold * apple of one's eye, apple of somebody's eye * Apples of the Hesperides * apple sourpuss * apple's queen * apple-squire * apple strudel * apple sucker * appletini * Appletise, Appletiser * apple tree * apple turnover * apple twig-cutter * (Apple Valley) * Apple Wassail * apple-water * apple wedger * apple weevil, apple blossom weevil * apple-wife * apple wine * apple-woman * applewood * apple worm * apple-wort * apple-yard * a rotten apple spoils the barrel * as sure as God made little apples, sure as God made little apples * bad apple * bake-apple, bakeapple, baked-apple * baking apple * Baldwin apple * balm-apple * balsam apple * bell apple * the Big Apple * bitter apple * blade apple * bob for apples * bobbing for apples * Bragi's apples * candied apple, candy apple * caramel apple * cashew apple * cedar apple * cedar-apple rust * cherry apple * chess-apple * cider-apple * common thorn apple * compare apples with apples * cooking apple * crab apple, crabapple * Criterion apple * custard apple * Dead-Sea apple * desert thorn-apple * dessert apple * devil's apple * devil's apples * earth-apple * eating apple * egg apple * elephant apple * golden apple * green apple aphid * hedge apple * hogapple * horseapple * how do you like them apples? * Indian apple * Jamaica apple * java apple * Jew's apple * John-apple * June-apple * kai apple * kangaroo apple * kei-apple * lady apple * the Little Apple * love apple * Macoun apple * mad apple * Malay apple * mamey apple * mammee apple * mandrake apple * May apple, mayapple * McIntosh * median apple * Micah Rood's apples * monkey apple * monkey apple tree * oak apple, oak-apple * Otaheite apple * pear-apple * Persian apple * Peruvian apple cactus * pineapple * pink fir apple * pitch apple * polish the apple * pond apple * potato apple, potato-apple * prairie apple * prairie crab apple * prickly custard apple * Punic apple * queen apple * road apple * road apples * rose apple * rotten apple * sage-apple * sea-apple * seven-year apple * sheld-apple, shell-apple * she'll be apples, she's apples * Snapple * snow apple * soap apple * sorb-apple * southern crab apple * star apple * stocking-apple * stone apple * sugar apple * sweet apple * taffy apple, toffee apple * thorn apple * toffee apple * tropical soda apple * vi-apple * vine apple * water apple * wax apple * Westbury apple * wild apple * wild balsam apple * wine apple * winter apple * wise apple * wolf apple * wood apple * woolly apple aphidSee also
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)- The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
- He took the cap of the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
- He had golden caps on his teeth.
- There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
- We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
- Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
- He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
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- Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?
- Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
- Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.
- he that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks
- the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
- flat cap'''; fools'''cap'''; legal '''cap
Antonyms
* (artificial upper limit) floorHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* (head covering) baseball cap, cunt cap * (protective cover or seal) crown cap, filler cap * (artificial upper limit) interest rate cap * (small amount of explosive used as detonator) percussion cap, pop a cap in someone's assSee also
* set one's cap atVerb
(capp)- cap wages.
- That really capped my day.
- If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.
- Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
- (Shakespeare)
- Tom capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows.
- (Spenser)