CAPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capped mean? 

• CAPPED (adjective)
  The adjective CAPPED has 2 senses:

1. used especially of front teeth having (artificial) crowns

2. covered as if with a cap or crown especially of a specified kind

  Familiarity information: CAPPED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used especially of front teeth having (artificial) crowns

Context example:

capped teeth gave her a beautiful smile

Similar:

crowned (having an (artificial) crown on a tooth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Covered as if with a cap or crown especially of a specified kind

Context example:

snow-capped peaks

Similar:

crowned (provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination)

 Context examples 

It appeared to be very large; neither to east nor to west could I see any end to the vista of green-capped cliffs.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even as he spoke, a bullet was deflected by a brass-capped spoke of the wheel between his hands and screeched off through the air to windward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They wondered whether smell might contribute to the reproductive isolation of black-capped and Carolina chickadees in a zone in Pennsylvania where birds are hybridizing.

(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)

Carbon nanotubes can be filled and capped, forming nanoscale test tubes or potential drug delivery devices.

(Carbon Nanotubes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The deposits are exposed in cross section as relatively pure water ice, capped by a layer one to two yards (or meters) thick of ice-cemented rock and dust.

(Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice, NASA)

The valley ran from the horseshoe, land-locked bay to the tops of the dizzy, cloud-capped peaks and contained perhaps ten thousand acres.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The metaphyses develop benign, bony outgrowths often capped by cartilage.

(Hereditary Multiple Exostoses, NCI Thesaurus)

Here and there, through the dense haze which surrounded them, there loomed out huge pinnacles and jutting boulders of rock: while high above the sea of vapor there towered up one gigantic peak, with the pink glow of the early sunshine upon its snow-capped head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the Kozak scanning model, the 40S ribosomal subunit bearing Met-tRNAmet and initiation factors, binds near the capped 5' end of the mRNA and travels along the mRNA until it comes to the first AUG.

(Internal Ribosome Entry Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Recovery from light involves the deactivation of the light-activated intermediates: photolyzed rhodopsin is phosphorylated by rhodopsin kinase (RK) and subsequently capped off by arrestin; GTP-binding transducin alpha subunit deactivates through a process that is stimulated by RGS9.

(Phototransduction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)