Crossword clues for capping
capping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coping \Cop"ing\, n. [See Cope, n.] (Arch.)
The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often
with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called
capping.
--Gwill.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of removing one's hat as a token of respect. 2 (context geology English) rock that overlies a mineral deposit. 3 The process of covering a borehole in order to seal an oil well. 4 The selling of a security etc. close to an expiry date. 5 (context mathematics English) The conversion of a polyhedron into a stellated polyhedron by raising a pyramid on each face. vb. (present participle of cap English)
WordNet
See cap
n. a tight-fitting headdress
a top (as for a bottle)
a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive [syn: detonator, detonating device]
something serving as a cover or protection
a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom [syn: pileus]
an upper limit on what is allowed; "they established a cap for prices" [syn: ceiling]
dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a tooth [syn: crownwork]
the upper part of a column that supports the entablature [syn: capital, chapiter]
Wikipedia
Capping may refer to:
- the creation of five-prime (5') caps in a cell nucleus.
- Capping enzyme
- Capping phrase (jakugo), a response to a Zen kōan.
- Capping stunt, a New Zealand university student prank.
- Capping week, New Zealand universities' graduation week.
- Frequency capping in advertising.
- Session capping in advertising.
- Window capping in building construction.
Usage examples of "capping".
It was a cheery sight with snow capping the red clapboards of both the general store and adjacent cafe.
No significant markets seemed in any hurry to open up and compensate for the capping of TV's old gusher.
One did not think much about things connected with the Cappings, and certainly did not talk about them.
The ascendants of the chambranle featured rich carvings of leafy vines that rose to the capping transverse, joining to form a giant wreath at the center.
In the checkout line, he peered over her shoulder at the pile of breads, coffeecakes, and doughnuts capping off the cart of meat and dairy.
Capping all of it was a Canada grown huge and detailless on the map, as if it were a nation of unexplored mystery.
With its cylindrical shape and vast encrustations of machinery capping each end its genealogy appeared to be midway between ordinary asteroid settlements and an Edenist habitat.
Capping a tragedy that has already become fodder for comedians all over the world, Sabine Wendel of Bonn, Germany, has filed suit against the distributors of Masterman, a nanotech-based product advertised to cure erectile dysfunction.
Apparently he had been racking the hose at the gasoline pump and capping the fuel tank.
Capping the disorder, someone came to report that as La Grange’.
Then the Brigade warriors were capping their weapons and firing again—he ground his teeth as he saw a few ramrods go flying out toward the enemy—and beginning the cumbersome task of loading once more.
The large ruminant ruminates every word in the twelfth bay from the left: "The Alemannic Stockingcap is capping between Todtnau and Freidburg.
He had also discovered that every shop, even the most unlikely, has a circle of daily customers who become its experts-the elderly gentlemen capping each other's list of imported cheeses, the ladies debating on the use of slippery elm bark, the teenagers intoning the life history of every member of every rock band.