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uncapped

adj

Etymology

From un- + capped. Piecewise doublet of uncaped and uncoped.

  1. derived from caput
  2. derived from cappa
  3. inherited from *kappā✻ — “covering, hood, mantle”
  4. inherited from cæppe
  5. inherited from cappe
  6. suffixed as capped — “cap + ed”
  7. prefixed as uncapped — “un + capped”

Definitions

  1. Not capped (in various senses)

    Not capped (in various senses); not wearing or possessing a cap.

    • I struggling faintly, could not help feeling what I could not grasp, a column of the whitest ivory, beautifully streak'd with blue veins, and carrying, fully uncapt, a head of the liveliest vermillion
    • From rolling plain where crumbling Tiber flows, / To fixed Soracte still uncapped with snow.

  2. Of honey, not having been sealed by bees with a wax cover in the cell.

    • "And I see over here you have buckets of honey you have gathered. It is uncapped, and liquid."

  3. Not having made an appearance in an international sports match.

    • there seems nothing very unusual about an uncapped 20-year-old English midfielder being asked to step up in the Champions League last-16 against Real Madrid.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. simple past and past participle of uncap

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA