Cab vs. Cap — What's the Difference?

A taxi

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

The driver's compartment in a lorry, bus, or train.

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

A cabinet containing a speaker or speakers for a guitar amplifier.

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

Travel in a taxi

An upper limit imposed on spending or borrowing

A taxicab.

A contraceptive diaphragm.

The covered compartment of a heavy vehicle or machine, such as a truck or locomotive, in which the operator or driver sits.

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

A one-horse vehicle for public hire.

Short for percussion cap

An ancient Hebrew unit of measure equal to about 2 liters (2.1 quarts).

Short for capitalization

To ride or travel in a taxicab

Put a lid or cover on

To drive a taxicab

Provide a fitting climax or conclusion to

Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.

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

Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.

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

Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.

Confer a university degree on.

Synonym of taxi

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

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

An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.

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

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

To travel by taxicab.

A crown for covering or sealing a tooth.

A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.

A truck cap.

The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.

A tread for a worn pneumatic tire.

A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.

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

A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits

Chiefly Southern US See eye.

Small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood

A summit or top, as of a mountain.

A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

An upper limit; a ceiling

(Architecture) The capital of a column.

The top part, or pileus, of a mushroom.

A calyptra.

A percussion cap.

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

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

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

A capital letter.

Capital

Capitalization

To cover, protect, or seal with a cap.

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

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;