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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
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
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 (Zoƶl.) 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 (Zoƶl.), 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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