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CAPITAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The upper part of a column that supports the entablature
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("capital" is a kind of...):
top (the upper part of anything)
Holonyms ("capital" is a part of...):
column; pillar ((architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
Example:
printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters
Synonyms:
capital; capital letter; majuscule; upper-case letter; uppercase
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("capital" is a kind of...):
character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capital"):
small cap; small capital (a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters)
Derivation:
capital (uppercase)
capitalise; capitalize (write in capital letters)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
Synonyms:
Capital; Das Kapital
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
book (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together))
Sense 4
Meaning:
The federal government of the United States
Synonyms:
Capital; Washington
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Instance hypernyms:
federal government (a government with strong central powers)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A seat of government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("capital" is a kind of...):
seat (a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capital"):
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
provincial capital (the capital city of a province)
state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)
Instance hyponyms:
Camelot ((Arthurian legend) the capital of King Arthur's kingdom; according to the legend, truth and goodness and beauty reigned there)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
Example:
the drug capital of Columbia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("capital" is a kind of...):
center; centre (a place where some particular activity is concentrated)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("capital" is a kind of...):
assets (anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capital"):
endowment; endowment fund (the capital that provides income for an institution)
means; substance (considerable capital (wealth or income))
corpus; principal; principal sum (capital as contrasted with the income derived from it)
Derivation:
capitalise (compute the present value of a business or an income)
capitalist (a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business))
Sense 8
Meaning:
Assets available for use in the production of further assets
Synonyms:
capital; working capital
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("capital" is a kind of...):
assets (anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company)
Meronyms (members of "capital"):
current assets; liquid assets; quick assets (assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capital"):
stock (the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity))
risk capital; venture capital (wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises)
operating capital (capital available for the operations of a firm (e.g. manufacturing or transportation) as distinct from financial transactions and long-term improvements)
seed money (capital needed to set up a new business or enterprise)
Derivation:
capitalise (convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital)
capitalise (consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses)
capitalise (compute the present value of a business or an income)
capitalise (supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders)
capitalist (a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business))
capitalize (convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital)
capitalize (compute the present value of a business or an income)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Uppercase
Example:
many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script
Synonyms:
capital; great; majuscule
Classified under:
Similar:
uppercase (relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case)
Derivation:
capital (one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of primary importance
Example:
our capital concern was to avoid defeat
Classified under:
Similar:
primary (of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary)
Sense 3
Meaning:
First-rate
Example:
a capital idea
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
superior (of high or superior quality or performance)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Context examples:
"Finis," he wrote, in capitals, at the end, and to him it was indeed finis.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Her performance was pleasing, though by no means capital.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
In the ebb of their fortunes, this sum was their total capital; yet they laid it unhesitatingly against Matthewson’s six hundred.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The rainfall continues to elevate the levels in the Seine River, which is expected to reach a peak of up to 6.2 meters (20.3 feet) in the capital on January 27.
(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)
She could not abstract her mind five minutes: she was forced to listen; his reading was capital, and her pleasure in good reading extreme.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The complement system proteins are named with a capital C followed by a number.
(Classical Complement Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union.
(Distrito Federal of Mexico, NCI Thesaurus)
Indicates that a text matching operation distinguishes upper-case (capital) letters from lower case.
(Case Sensitive, NCI Thesaurus)
In Unicode the capital "A" is codepoint U+0041 and the lower case "a" is U+0061.
(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Its capital is Chilpancingo de los Bravo.
(Guerrero, NCI Thesaurus)
