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Definition of Cap off
1. Verb. Finish or complete, as with some decisive action. "He capped off the meeting with a radical proposal"
Definition of Cap off
1. Verb. (transitive) To finish. ¹
2. Verb. (mathematics transitive) To glue a relatively uncomplicated compact manifold to a manifold of the same dimension along (a component of the latter's boundary). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cap Off
Literary usage of Cap off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"He has to take the cap off his telescope. Many a man thinks he is looking at
truth when he is only looking at the cap. Many a time I have looked down my ..."
2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"What do you reckon would happen if I was to snatch your cap off and slap you in
the face with it?" " Please don't trouble me, Mr. Allen, I ain't doing ..."
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