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# capped

adjective (capped); verb, past form of cap (cap, caps, capped, capping)

«capped» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Covered at the top: snow-capped mountains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#m1)
2. Having a top limit put on it: prices are capped at £5. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#m2)
3. (UK, sport) Chosen to play for your national team: capped for England. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#m3)
4. (teeth) Covered with an artificial crown by a dentist. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#m4)

### In the lessons

In geography, snow-capped peaks. In money and news, capped prices or bills mean they cannot go above a limit. In UK sport, a player «capped 50 times» has played 50 international matches. In maths problems, «capped at 10» means the most it can be is 10.

### Examples

- We saw snow-capped mountains in the Alps. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x1)
- Bus fares are capped at £2. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x2)
- He was capped for Wales at the age of nineteen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x3)
- The dentist capped my broken tooth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x4)
- Screen time is capped at one hour a day in our house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x5)
- The pen was capped so it would not dry out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x6)
- One snow-capped peak after another rose before him, till the whole of the glittering Alpine range became visible. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/#x7)

### Note

Double «p»: capped, capping. Maths: if a cost is capped at 10, then 12 becomes 10; values under 10 stay the same.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «capped» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capped/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«capped» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/capped.html) on Mova free.