The difference between Cap and Floor
When used as nouns, cap means a close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked, whereas floor means the interior bottom or surface of a house or building.
When used as verbs, cap means to cover or seal with a cap, whereas floor means to cover or furnish with a floor.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cap and Floor
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Cap as a noun:
A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
Examples:
"The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun."
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Cap as a noun:
A special hat to indicate rank, occupation etc.
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Cap as a noun:
An academic mortarboard
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Cap as a noun:
A protective cover or seal
Examples:
"He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne."
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Cap as a noun:
A crown for covering a tooth
Examples:
"He had golden caps on his teeth."
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Cap as a noun:
The summit of a mountain etc.
Examples:
"There was snow on the cap of the mountain."
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Cap as a noun:
An artificial upper limit or ceiling
Examples:
"We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control."
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Cap as a noun:
The top part of a mushroom
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Cap as a noun:
A small amount of gunpowder in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun
Examples:
"Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy. "
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Cap as a noun:
A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives
Examples:
"He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely."
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Cap as a noun (slang):
A bullet used to shoot someone.
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Cap as a noun (soccer):
An international appearance
Examples:
"Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden."
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Cap as a noun (obsolete):
The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
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Cap as a noun (obsolete):
A respectful uncovering of the head.
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Cap as a noun (zoology):
The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
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Cap as a noun (architecture):
The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
Examples:
"the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate"
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Cap as a noun:
Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
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Cap as a noun (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.
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Cap as a noun (geometry):
A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
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Cap as a noun:
A large size of writing paper.
Examples:
"flat cap; foolscap; legal cap"
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Cap as a verb (transitive):
To cover or seal with a cap
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Cap as a verb (transitive):
To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
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Cap as a verb (transitive):
To lie over or on top of something
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Cap as a verb (transitive):
To surpass or outdo
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Cap as a verb (transitive):
To set an upper limit on something
Examples:
"cap wages."
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Cap as a verb (transitive):
To make something even more wonderful at the end.
Examples:
"That really capped my day."
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Cap as a verb (transitive, cricket):
To select a player to play for a specified side
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Cap as a verb (transitive, slang):
To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
Examples:
" If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass. "
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Cap as a verb (transitive, sports):
to select to play for the national team.
Examples:
"Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer."
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Cap as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To uncover the head respectfully.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Cap as a verb:
To deprive of a cap.
Examples:
"rfquotek Spenser"
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Cap as a noun (finance):
Capitalization.
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Cap as a noun (informal):
An uppercase letter.
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Cap as a verb (transitive, informal):
To convert text to uppercase.
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Cap as a noun (electronics):
capacitor
Examples:
"Parasitic caps."
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Cap as a noun (colloquial):
A recording or screenshot.
Examples:
"Anyone have a cap of the games last night?"
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Cap as a verb (transitive):
To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
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Cap as a noun (obsolete):
A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
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Floor as a noun:
The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
Examples:
"The room has a wooden floor."
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Floor as a noun:
Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
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Floor as a noun:
The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
Examples:
"Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor."
"The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home."
"The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been."
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Floor as a noun:
A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
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Floor as a noun:
The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
Examples:
"Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten."
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Floor as a noun:
A storey/story of a building.
Examples:
"For years we lived on the third floor."
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Floor as a noun:
In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
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Floor as a noun:
Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
Examples:
"Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?"
"The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor."
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Floor as a noun (nautical):
That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
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Floor as a noun (mining):
The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
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Floor as a noun (mining):
A horizontal, flat ore body.
Examples:
"rfquotek Raymond"
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Floor as a noun (mathematics):
The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
Examples:
"The floor of 4.5 is 4."
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Floor as a noun (gymnastics):
An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
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Floor as a noun (gymnastics):
A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
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Floor as a noun (finance):
A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
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Floor as a noun:
A dance floor.
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Floor as a noun:
The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition
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Floor as a verb:
To cover or furnish with a floor.
Examples:
"'floor a house with pine boards"
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Floor as a verb:
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
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Floor as a verb (driving, slang):
To accelerate rapidly.
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Floor as a verb:
To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
Examples:
"'floor an opponent"
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Floor as a verb:
To amaze or greatly surprise.
Examples:
"We were floored by his confession."
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Floor as a verb (colloquial):
To finish or make an end of.
Examples:
"'floor a college examination"
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Floor as a verb (mathematics):
To set a lower bound.