Cap vs Tree - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between cap and tree

is that cap is to extend one's leg for walking; get a move on while tree is to chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

As a noun tree is

a large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).

cap

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m).

Noun

(en noun)

A close-fitting head covering either without a brim or with a peak.

The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.

A special head covering to indicate rank, occupation etc.

An academic mortarboard

A protective cover or seal

He took the cap of 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

A small amount of gunpowder in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun

Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.

A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives

He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.

(slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.

* 2001: Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon

Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?

(soccer) An international appearance

Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.

(obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.

* Shakespeare

Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.

(obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.

* Fuller

he that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks

(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.

the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate

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.

flat cap'''; fools'''cap'''; legal '''cap

Antonyms

* (artificial upper limit) floor

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived 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 ass

Verb

(capp)

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

cap wages.

To make something even more wonderful at the end.

That really capped my day.

(cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side

(slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.

If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.

(sports) to select to play for the national team.

Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.

(obsolete) To uncover the head respectfully.

(Shakespeare)

* Thackeray

Tom capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows.

To deprive of a cap.

(Spenser)

Etymology 2

From capitalization, by shortening.

Noun

(en noun)

(finance) Capitalization.

Derived terms

* market cap

Etymology 3

From capital, by shortening.

Noun

(en noun)

(informal) An uppercase letter.

Verb

(capp)

(informal) To convert text to uppercase.

Anagrams

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tree

English

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Noun

(en-noun) (plural "treen" is obsolete)

A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).

is the tallest living tree in the world.

Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.

Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense: for example the banana "tree".

An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks]] or storage [[platform, platforms.

He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree .

A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.

He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.

The structural frame of a saddle.

(graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n'' vertices and ''n -1 edges.

(computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.

(graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.

We’ll show it as a tree list.

Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).

The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.

(informal) Marijuana.

(obsolete) A cross or gallows.

Tyburn tree

* Bible, Acts x. 39

[Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree .

(obsolete) wood; timber

* Wyclif Bible (2 Tim. ii. 20)

In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.

(chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

Derived terms

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Proverbs

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Hypernyms

* plant * (in graph theory) graph

Hyponyms

* oak, fir, pine * see also:

Synonyms

* sapling, seedling

Verb

(d)

To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

The dog treed the cat.

To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.

to tree a boot

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