CAPE

cape, mantle

(noun) a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

cape, ness

(noun) a strip of land projecting into a body of water

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

cape (plural capes)

(geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.

Synonyms: chersonese, peninsula, point

Etymology 2

Noun

cape (plural capes)

A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.

(slang) A superhero.

Verb

cape (third-person singular simple present capes, present participle caping, simple past and past participle caped)

To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.

(nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.

To skin an animal, particularly a deer.

(US, slang) To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.

Etymology 3

Verb

cape (third-person singular simple present capes, present participle caping, simple past and past participle caped)

(obsolete) To look for, search after.

(rare, dialectal or obsolete) To gaze or stare.

Anagrams

• APEC, EPAC, EPCA, PACE, PECA, Pace, pace

Proper noun

Cape (plural er-noun or Capes)

(countable) A surname.

Proper noun

the Cape

(with the definite article, southern Africa) Ellipsis of Cape of Good Hope.

(with the definite article, South Africa) Ellipsis of Cape Province, South Africa. Cape Province was split into three in 1994.

(with the definite article, historical, southern Africa) Ellipsis of Cape Colony.

(with the definite article, spaceflight) Ellipsis of Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA; where the major U.S. spaceflight complex is located.

Anagrams

• APEC, EPAC, EPCA, PACE, PECA, Pace, pace

Noun

CAPE (uncountable)

(meteorology) Convective available potential energy

Anagrams

• APEC, EPAC, EPCA, PACE, PECA, Pace, pace

Source: Wiktionary

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Cape, n. Etym: [F. cap, fr. It. capo head, cape, fr. L. caput heat, end, point. See Chief.]

Definition: A piece or point of land, extending beyind the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promonotory; a headland. Cape buffalo (Zoöl.) a large and powerful buffalo of South Africa (Bubalus Caffer). It is said to be the most dangerous wild beast of Africa. See Buffalo, 2.

– Cape jasmine, Cape jassamine. See Jasmine.

– Cape pigeon (Zoöl.), a petrel (Daptium Capense) common off the Cape of Good Hope. It is about the size of a pigeon.

– Cape wine, wine made in South Africa [Eng.] -- The Cape, the Cape of Good Hope, in the general sense of southern extremity of Africa. Also used of Cape Horn, and, in New England, of Cape Cod.

Cape, v. i. (Naut.)

Definition: To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.

Cape, n. Etym: [OE. Cape, fr. F. cape; cf. LL. cappa. See Cap, and cf. 1st Cope, Chape.]

Definition: A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.

Cape, v. i. Etym: [See Gape.]

Definition: To gape. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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