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  1. caping: Merriam-Webster
  2. caping: Wiktionary
  3. caping: Dictionary.com
  4. caping: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. caping: Legal dictionary

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  1. caping: Encyclopedia

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  1. caping: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cap)

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 capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, video games) To capitulate (cause to capitulate) an opponent.
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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