Bullet vs. Cap — What's the Difference?

A bullet is a kinetic projectile, a component of firearm ammunition that is shot from a gun barrel. The term is from Middle French, originating as the diminutive of the word boulle (boullet), which means "small ball".

A cap is a kind of soft and flat headgear, usually with a visor. Caps have crowns that fit very close to the head.

A metal projectile for firing from a rifle, revolver, or other small firearm, typically cylindrical and pointed, and sometimes containing an explosive.

A kind of soft, flat hat without a brim and typically with a peak

A small symbol used to introduce each item in a list, for emphasis.

A protective lid or cover for an object such as a bottle, the point of a pen, or a camera lens

A stick of lipstick (considered separately from the tube in which it is encased)

An upper limit imposed on spending or borrowing

A usually metal projectile in the shape of a pointed cylinder or a ball that is expelled from a firearm, especially a rifle or handgun.

A contraceptive diaphragm.

Such a projectile in a metal casing; a cartridge.

The broad upper part of the fruiting body of most mushrooms and toadstools, at the top of a stem and bearing gills or pores.

An object resembling a projectile in shape, action, or effect.

Short for percussion cap

(Printing) A heavy dot (·) used to highlight a particular passage.

Short for capitalization

A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.

Put a lid or cover on

(informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.

Provide a fitting climax or conclusion to

Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.

Place a limit or restriction on (prices, expenditure, or borrowing)

(typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.

Be chosen as a member of a particular sports team, especially a national one

A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.

Confer a university degree on.

A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.

A usually soft and close-fitting head covering, either having no brim or with a visor.

(slang) One year of prison time.

A special head covering worn to indicate rank, occupation, or membership in a particular group

(slang) An ace (the playing card).

An academic mortarboard. Used especially in the phrase cap and gown.

(figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.

A protective cover or seal, especially one that closes off an end or a tip

(in attributive use) Very fast speedy.

A crown for covering or sealing a tooth.

Chess played at an extremely fast time control, with one minute given to each player. (bullet chess)

A truck cap.

(fishing) A plumb or sinker.

A tread for a worn pneumatic tire.

The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.

A fitted covering used to seal a well or large pipe.

(Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.

Chiefly Southern US See eye.

(obsolete) A small ball.

A summit or top, as of a mountain.

(obsolete) A cannonball.

An upper limit; a ceiling

(obsolete) The fetlock of a horse.

(Architecture) The capital of a column.

A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.

The top part, or pileus, of a mushroom.

A young or little bull; a male calf.

A calyptra.

To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.

A percussion cap.

To speed, like a bullet.

A small explosive charge enclosed in paper for use in a toy gun.

To make a shot, especially with great speed.

Any of several sizes of writing paper, such as foolscap.

A small ball.

(Sports) An appearance by a player in an international soccer game, traditionally rewarded with a hat.

A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.

A capital letter.

A cannon ball.

Capital

The fetlock of a horse.

Capitalization

A projectile that is fired from a gun

To cover, protect, or seal with a cap.

A high-speed passenger train

To award a special cap to as a sign of rank or achievement

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity;

To lie over or on top of; cover

To apply the finishing touch to; complete

To follow with something better; surpass or outdo

To set an upper limit on

To capitalize.

A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.

A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.

An academic mortarboard.

A protective cover or seal.

A crown for covering a tooth.

The summit of a mountain, etc.

An artificial upper limit or ceiling.

The top part of a mushroom.

(toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.

A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.

(slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.

A lie or exaggeration.

(sport) A place on a national team; an international appearance.

(obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.

(obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.

(zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.

(architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.

Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.

(nautical) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.

(geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.

A large size of writing paper.

(finance) Capitalization.

(informal) An uppercase or capital letter.

(electronics) A capacitor.

(colloquial) A recording or screenshot.

(slang) A capsule of a drug.

(colloquial) A capitalist.

Capillary

(obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.

(transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.

(transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.

(transitive) To lie over or on top of something.

(transitive) To surpass or outdo.

(transitive) To set an upper limit on something.

(transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.

To select a player to play for a specified side.

To shoot (someone) with a firearm.

To lie; to tell a lie.

To select to play for the national team.

To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.

To deprive of a cap.

To convert text to uppercase.

(transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.

A covering for the head

The top, or uppermost part; the chief.

A respectful uncovering of the head.

The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.

Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use

A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.

To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.

To deprive of cap.

To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.

To salute by removing the cap.

To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs.

To uncover the head respectfully.

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

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

An upper limit on what is allowed;

Dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a tooth

The upper part of a column that supports the entablature

Lie at the top of;

Restrict the number or amount of;