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CAPPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Covered as if with a cap or crown especially of a specified kind
Example:
snow-capped peaks
Classified under:
Similar:
crowned (provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used especially of front teeth having (artificial) crowns
Example:
capped teeth gave her a beautiful smile
Classified under:
Similar:
crowned (having an (artificial) crown on a tooth)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb cap
Context examples:
Cassini finished its tour of the Saturn system with its Grand Finale, capped by Friday's intentional plunge into the planet to ensure Saturn's moons – particularly Enceladus, with its subsurface ocean and signs of hydrothermal activity – remain pristine for future exploration.
(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)
We look into the glittering windows of the jewellers' shops; and I show Sophy which of the diamond-eyed serpents, coiled up on white satin rising grounds, I would give her if I could afford it; and Sophy shows me which of the gold watches that are capped and jewelled and engine-turned, and possessed of the horizontal lever-escape-movement, and all sorts of things, she would buy for me if she could afford it; and we pick out the spoons and forks, fish-slices, butter-knives, and sugar-tongs, we should both prefer if we could both afford it; and really we go away as if we had got them!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Girls, said Meg seriously, looking from the tumbled head beside her to the two little night-capped ones in the room beyond, Mother wants us to read and love and mind these books, and we must begin at once.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Huynh and Rice found that black-capped and Carolina chickadees produce chemically distinct oils used to maintain their feathers; the oils also contain scent-producing compounds.
(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)
After the simple breakfast, capped with a cup of cold water, Maud took her lesson in steering.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Meg had an extra row of little curlpapers across her forehead, Jo had copiously anointed her afflicted face with cold cream, Beth had taken Joanna to bed with her to atone for the approaching separation, and Amy had capped the climax by putting a clothespin on her nose to uplift the offending feature.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Rice researches the black-capped chickadee and its relative, the Carolina chickadee.
(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)
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