feather in one's cap
An accomplishment; particularly one that is flaunted or boasted of.
He thinks it is quite a feather in his cap that he figured it out for himself.
cap
/kæp/
noun 17verb 9name 5
Collocations
8(noun.) soft flat hat
ADJ
flat, peaked | cloth | baseball, bathing, cricket, forage, school, shower, skull, swimming
CAP + NOUN
badge
(noun.) covering for the end/top of sth
ADJ
filler, hub, lens
screw
She twisted the screw cap off the jar to get the pickles out.
VERB + CAP
put on, screw on
She screwed the cap on the toothpaste tube before putting it away in the bathroom cabinet.
remove, take off, unscrew
Definitions
noun
1
A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white, “Sorrow and sickness on thee alight” That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small, “No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!”
2
A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
3
An academic mortarboard.
4
A protective cover or seal.
He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
5
A crown for covering a tooth.
He had golden caps on his teeth.
verb
1
To cover or seal with a cap.
2
To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
3
To lie over or on top of something.
4
To surpass or outdo.
5
To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
to cap wages
It recalls the business case for Scotland's reopening of the Borders Railway to Tweedbank, that British Rail closed in 1969. The review says the business case for this was at best borderline, but goes on to say that the case greatly underestimated passenger demand and that the railway Scotland built has capped its capacity.
noun
1
Capitalization.
2
A capital letter.
3
A capacitor.
parasitic caps
I had to replace the caps in that thing to get it to work again.
4
Clipping of capture; a recording or screenshot.
Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
If you have a cap of Gabby's bare butt from the "forget me not" episode please post or mail it...
5
A capsule of a drug.
Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amoun
noun — a protective covering that is part of a plant
noun — a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that f
verb — lie at the top of
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
set one's cap at
To choose a man as a potential husband (for a girl).
To hear her rant, one would have supposed, who had not seen him, that her lank-haired, grimly partner, was the prettiest youth in the county of Dublin, and that all the comely lass
cap it all off
To finish or complete something; to add a finishing touch.
We went for a walk along the beach, watched the sunset, and then capped it all off with a lovely meal.
bust a cap
To fire a weapon; to shoot with a gun.
cap over the windmill
In a bizarre or eccentric manner.
Example Bank
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The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
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That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white, “Sorrow and sickness on thee alight” That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small, “No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!”
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He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
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to cap wages
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It recalls the business case for Scotland's reopening of the Borders Railway to Tweedbank, that British Rail closed in 1969. The review says the business case for this was at best borderline, but goes
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That really capped my day.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
In some senses, cap is marked as informal, slang, obsolete, colloquial, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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