Capped vs Gapped - What's the difference?
capped | gapped |
(cap)
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.
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(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.
Having a gap.
(gap)
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
An opening allowing passage or entrance.
An opening that implies a breach or defect.
A vacant space or time.
A hiatus.
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, title= A mountain or hill pass.
(label) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
(label) The regions between the outfielders.
The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
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(label) To notch, as a sword or knife.
(label) To make an opening in; to breach.
(label) To check the size of a gap.
As verbs the difference between capped and gapped
is that capped is past tense of cap while gapped is past tense of gap.As an adjective gapped is
having a gap.capped
English
Verb
(head)cap
English
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)
Etymology 2
From capitalization, by shortening.Derived terms
* market capEtymology 3
From capital, by shortening.Verb
(capp)Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----gapped
English
Adjective
(-)Verb
(head)gap
English
Noun
(en noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
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- Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap , and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.
Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win, passage=That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.}}
Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska, page=70 , passage=When Charles Bessey suddenly died in 1916 at age seventy, he left a gap that was impossible to fill; and though his protégé. R. J. Pool, was a man of intelligence and character, he did not have Bessey’s authority.}}
