What is "uncap"

Usage examples of "uncap".

Jaina slipped behind the trunk of a giant mogo and dropped to her knees, keeping one eye on the flickering battle ahead as she uncapped her canteen.

She uncapped a bottle of Evian and took a long swallow, then carefully recapped it.

He uncapped a Pilsener Urquell from a cooler behind the bar, dipped its neck toward me, then took a swig of the brew before sitting down again.

He promptly set a bag on the table, removed and uncapped two coffees, and unwrapped the donuts.

Sometimes, he uncaps his pen and writes in his notebook, looking up after a while, right into the face of her old happiness.

He uncapped a bottle of Gurten beer and drained half of it in true hell-raising chugalug fashion.

He uncapped the vial of black powder and lightly brushed some onto the prints, clearly defining the ridges and bifurcations.

He uncapped the observation telescope and, turning it on the heavy steel gimbals which floated in sealed oil baths, lined up its declinational and equatorial axes in a combination he knew as well as his own name.

Uncapping the bottle again, Alannah poured the remaining contents into her cup then retrieved the cordless receiver and brought it back to the table.

And uncapped the vial and took his pill, while the cardiac monitor flashed red with alarms.

Then, with the same almost unconscious ease, he reached down for a new bottle, uncapped it, and poured until a cream puff of a head burgeoned at the top of it.

His liquor cabinet sat empty but for the uncapped bottle of creme de menthe.

He took out a fruit jar full of iced tea and uncapped it, and set it in the weeds between their outstretched feet.

Donovan uncapped the tightly sealed container and from the oil bath within he withdrew a second cube.

The oilwells on Harbor Island had been successfully uncapped, the pipelines to the refineries on the continent checked and reopened—but Blundy already knew that, because he'd seen the smoke on the horizon.