Security vs Capping - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
(countable) Something that secures.
An organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations as well as maintaining order.
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, title= (legal) Something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation or law.
(legal) Freedom from apprehension.
(finance) Proof of ownership of stocks, bonds or other investment instruments.
(finance) Property etc. temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan.
A guarantee.
* Macaulay
(obsolete) Carelessness; negligence.
* Shakespeare
The act of removing one's hat as a token of respect.
*, II.17:
*:I am very prodigall of cappings , namely in Summer, and I never receive any from what quality of men soever, but I give them as good and as many as they bring, except he be some servant of mine.
(geology) Rock that overlies a mineral deposit.
The process of covering a borehole in order to seal an oil well.
The selling of a security etc. close to an expiry date.
(mathematics) The conversion of a polyhedron into a stellated polyhedron by raising a pyramid on each face.
As nouns the difference between security and capping
is that security is (uncountable) the condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially while capping is the act of removing one's hat as a token of respect.As a verb capping is
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(wikipedia security)Alternative forms
* secuerity (mostly obsolete)Noun
- Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard, / From firm security .
- Some alleged that we should have no security for our trade.
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- Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.
- He means, my lord, that we are too remiss, / Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security , / Grows strong and great in substance and in power.