Capital vs. Asset — What's the Difference?

The city or town that functions as the seat of government and administrative centre of a country or region

In financial accounting, an asset is any resource owned or controlled by a business or an economic entity. It is anything (tangible or intangible) that can be used to produce positive economic value.

Wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available for a purpose such as starting a company or investing

A useful or valuable quality, person, or thing; an advantage or resource

A letter of the size and form used to begin sentences and names

A valuable item that is owned.

The distinct, typically broader section at the head of a pillar or column

A spy working in their own country and controlled by a foreign power or an enemy.

(of an offence or charge) liable to the death penalty

(Accounting) The entries on a balance sheet showing all properties, both tangible and intangible, and claims against others that may be applied to cover the liabilities of a person or business. Assets can include cash, stock, inventories, property rights, and goodwill.

(of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names.

The entire property owned by a person, especially a bankrupt, that can be used to settle debts.

Excellent

A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows.

Used to express approval, satisfaction, or delight

(accounting) Any item recorded on the left-hand side of a balance sheet.

A town or city that is the official seat of government in a political entity, such as a state or nation.

(software) Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.

A city that is the center of a specific activity or industry

(espionage) An intelligence asset.

Wealth, especially in the form of financial or physical assets, used in the production or accumulation of more wealth.

A woman's breasts or buttocks or a man's genitalia.

Accumulated assets or advantages used for economic or political gain

Any article or separable part of one's assets.

The money invested in a corporation, including debt and equity.

A useful or valuable quality

Net worth.

Capital stock.

Capitalists considered as a group or class.

A capital letter.

The top part of a pillar or column, typically having an ornamental design.

First and foremost; principal

First-rate; excellent

Relating to or being a seat of government.

Extremely serious

Involving death or calling for the death penalty

Of or relating to financial assets, especially being or related to those financial assets that add to the net worth of a business

Relating to or being a capital letter.

Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).

Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.

(countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.

(countable) The most important city in the field specified.

(countable) An uppercase letter.

The uppermost part of a column.

(uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.

The chief or most important thing.

Of prime importance.

Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.

Excellent.

(crime) Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.

Uppercase.

Used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness

Of or relating to the head.

Of or pertaining to the head.

Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.

First in importance; chief; principal.

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.

Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.

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.

The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.

That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.

Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.

An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

A chapter, or section, of a book.

Assets available for use in the production of further assets

Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

A seat of government

One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis;

A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories

The upper part of a column that supports the entablature

First-rate;

Punishable by death;

Of primary important;

Uppercase;