Baseball Cap

–noun

1.

a game of ball between two nine-player teams played usually for nine innings on a field that has as a focal point a diamond-shaped infield with a home plate and three other bases, 90 ft. (27 m) apart, forming a circuit that must be completed by a base runner in order to score, the central offensive action entailing hitting of a pitched ball with a wooden or metal bat and running of the bases, the winner being the team scoring the most run 79 s.

2.	the ball used in this game, being a fdd sphere approximately 3 in. (7 cm) in diameter with a twine-covered center of cork covered by stitched horsehide.

3.	Cards. a variety of five-card or seven-card stud poker in which nines and threes are wild and in which threes and fours dealt face up gain the player either penalties or privileges.

–noun

1.	a close-fitting covering for the head, usually of soft supple material and having no visor or brim.

2.	a brimless head covering with a visor, as a baseball 1392 cap.

3.

mobcap.

4.	a headdress denoting rank, occupation, religious order, or the like: a nurse's cap.

5.	mortarboard (def. 2).

6.	Mathematics. the symbol ∩, used to indicate the intersection of two sets. Compare intersection (def. 3a).

7.	anything resembling or suggestive of a covering for the head in shape, use, or position: a cap on a bottle.

8.	summit; top; acme.

9.	a maximum limit, as one set by law or agreement on prices, wages, spending, etc., during a certain period of time; ceiling: a 9 percent cap on pay increases for this year.

10.	Mycology. the pileus of a mushroom.

11.	Botany. calyptra (def. 1).

12.	Mining. a short, horizontal beam at the top of a prop for supporting part of a roof.

13.	a percussion cap.

14.	British Sports. a selection for a representative team, usually for a national squad.

15.	a noise-making device for toy pistols, made of a small quantity of explosive wrapped in paper or other thin material.

16.	Nautical. a fitting of metal placed over the head of a spar, as a mast or bowsprit, and having a collar for securing an additional spar.

17.	a new tread applied to a worn pneumatic tire.

18.	Architecture. a capital.

19.	Carpentry. a metal plate placed over the iron of a plane to break the shavings as they rise.

20.	Fox Hunting. capping fee.

21.	Chiefly British Slang. a contraceptive diaphragm.

–verb (used with object)

22.	to provide or cover with or as if with a cap.

23.	to complete.

24.	follow up with something as good or better; surpass; outdo: to cap one joke with another.

25.	to serve as a cap, covering, or top to; overlie.

26.	to put a maximum limit on (prices, wages, spending, etc.).

27.	British Sports. to select (a player) for a representative team.

–verb (used without object)

28.	Fox Hunting. to hunt with a hunting club of which one is not a member, on payment of a capping fee.

—Idioms

29.	cap in hand, humbly; in supplication: He went to his father cap in hand and begged his forgiveness.

30.	set one's cap for, to pursue as being a potential mate.