CAPITAL
\kˈapɪtə͡l], \kˈapɪtəl], \k_ˈa_p_ɪ_t_əl]\
Definitions of CAPITAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in proper names and sometimes for emphasis; (printers once kept type for capitals and small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters)
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a seat of government
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wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
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assets available for use in the production of further assets
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uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
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of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
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punishable by death; "a capital offense"
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first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
By Princeton University
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a seat of government
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wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
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assets available for use in the production of further assets
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uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
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of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
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punishable by death; "a capital offense"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.
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First in importance; chief; principal.
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Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.
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Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.
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The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
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The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.
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Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
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That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.
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Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.
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An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
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A chapter, or section, of a book.
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See Capital letter, under Capital, a.
By Oddity Software
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Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.
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First in importance; chief; principal.
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Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.
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Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.
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The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
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The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.
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That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.
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Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.
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An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
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A chapter, or section, of a book.
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Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See stock, under Capital, a.
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See letter, under Capital, a.
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Of or pertaining to the head.
By Noah Webster.
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The science of utilization, distribution, and consumption of services and materials.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The chief city or town in a kingdom or state; a letter of the larger king such as is used to begin sentences, proper nouns, etc.; the sum invested in any particular business; stock or resources of any kind, moral or physical; that part of wealth which is employed in the production of more money; the top of a column or pillar.
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Punishable with death; first in importance; chief; excellent; first rate.
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Capitally.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Capitally.
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Relating to the head: involving the loss of the head: chief: principal: important.
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The head or top part of a column or pillar: the chief or most important thing: the chief city of a country: a large letter: the stock or money for carrying on any business.
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To furnish or crown with a capital, as a pillar or column. "The white column capitalled with gilding."-Charlotte Bronte.
By Daniel Lyons
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Chief; principal; deserving death; of death.
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Top of a column; chief thing; chief city; large letter; money invested in business.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Chief; principal; admirable.
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Of or pertaining to the death penalty; punishable with death.
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A chief city; the seat of government.
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A large letter used at the beginning of a sentence, of a proper name, etc. capital letter.
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Wealth employed in or available for production; resources; advantages.
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The upper member of a column or pillar.
By James Champlin Fernald
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First in importance; chief; principal; punishable by loss of the head or life; excellent; first-rate; belonging to capital.
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The head part of a column or pillar; the principal thing; the chief city in a state; a large letter; stock-in-trade; store of power.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Chief; principal; first in importance; punishable by loss of life; great; large of size.
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The ornamental part of a column, pillar, or pilaster placed at the top immediately over the shaft, but under the entablature; a chief city or town; a large letter or type; a stock-in-trade, consisting of money or goods.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. The head or uppermost part of a column, pilaster, &c.;—the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis;—a stock employed in trade, manufactures, &c.;—ready money;—the estimated value of a business, property, stock, &c.;—a printing type larger, and differing in form form those used in the body of the page;—the line which bisects the salient angle of a ravelin.
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Relating to the head; criminal in the highest degree; that which affects life; chief, principal; applied to letters, large, such as are written at the beginning or heads of books; Capital stock, the principal or original stock of a trading company.
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The upper part of a pillar; the chief city of a nation.
By Thomas Sheridan
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.