cap vs slug

cap

noun
  • A bullet used to shoot someone. 

  • 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. 

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

  • 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 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. 

slug

noun
  • A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. 

  • A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use. 

  • The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename. 

  • A hard blow, usually with the fist. 

  • A black screen. 

  • A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together. 

  • A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug. 

  • A ship that sails slowly. 

  • The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it. 

  • A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal. 

  • Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. 

  • An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab. 

  • A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes. 

  • A hitchhiking commuter. 

  • A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. 

  • A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material. 

  • A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. 

verb
  • To hit very hard, usually with the fist. 

  • To drink quickly; to gulp; to down. 

  • To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. 

  • To make sluggish. 

  • To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel. 

  • To load with a slug or slugs. 

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