cap vs number

cap

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

  • An uppercase or capital letter. 

  • A recording or screenshot. 

  • Anyone have a cap of the games last night? 

  • The top part of a mushroom. 

  • A place on a national team; an international appearance. 

  • An academic mortarboard. 

  • A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc. 

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

  • A lie or exaggeration. 

  • The uppermost of any assemblage of parts. 

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

  • The summit of a mountain, etc. 

  • A large size of writing paper. 

  • A crown for covering a tooth. 

  • A capitalist. 

  • An artificial upper limit or ceiling. 

  • capillary 

  • Capitalization. 

  • A protective cover or seal. 

  • A capacitor. 

  • A capsule of a drug. 

  • A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked. 

  • 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. 

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

  • A bullet used to shoot someone. 

  • A portion of a spherical or other convex surface. 

verb
  • To set an upper limit on something. 

  • To award a cap as a mark of distinction. 

  • To lie over or on top of something. 

  • To convert text to uppercase. 

  • To make something even more wonderful at the end. 

  • To lie; to tell a lie. 

  • To select to play for the national team. 

  • To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video. 

  • To select a player to play for a specified side. 

  • To cover or seal with a cap. 

  • To surpass or outdo. 

  • To shoot (someone) with a firearm. 

  • To deprive of a cap. 

number

noun
  • An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one. 

  • A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items. 

  • Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection. 

  • An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc. 

  • A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer. 

  • Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner. 

  • Quantity. 

  • A person. 

  • A large amount of damage 

  • A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance. 

  • A telephone number. 

  • An abstract entity used to describe quantity. 

  • A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show. 

  • A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer. 

verb
  • To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items). 

  • To total or count; to amount to. 

How often have the words cap and number occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )