cap

A cap can be a hat or something that provides some kind of protection or a seal.

baseball cap

• He always wears a baseball cap backwards.
• Did you put the cap back on the tube of toothpaste?
• Where the cap for the milk?
• The company put a cap on hiring at the beginning of the recession. (cap = a limit)
• Never use your teeth to remove a cap.

When the word "cap" is used as a verb, it usually means to limit the amount of something:

• The team capped his salary at two million dollars a year.
• The company capped the number of employees it was willing to hire for the year at no more than twenty.

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June 14, 2013