submit (medicine) and cap(1) (iou)

submit (medicine)

submit

1. To let down; to lower. "Sometimes the hill submits itself a while." (Dryden)

2. To put or place under. "The bristled throat Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut." (Chapman)

3. To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; often with the reflexive pronoun. "Ye ben submitted through your free assent." (Chaucer) "The angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands." (Gen. Xvi. 9) "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands." (Eph. V. 22)

4. To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; often followed by a dependent proposition as the object. "Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear a heavy burden, is submitted to the house." (Swift) "We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus." (Macaulay)

Origin: L. Submittere; sub under + mittere to send: cf. F. Soumettre. See Missile.

Source: Websters Dictionary

cap(1) (iou)

cap noun1. [kap] OE.
[Late Latin cappa, perh. from caput head.]
I. A covering for the head.
A hood. Only in OE.
A head-dress for women; latterly usu. a light one of muslin etc. for indoor use, worn by a nurse, woman servant, etc. ME.
mob-cap: see MOB noun2 3.
Any of various kinds of brimless head-dress, usu. soft and often with a peak, to be worn Outdoors or for a special purpose (e.g. as part of academic or Highland dress), orig. only by men or boys. LME.
Basque cap, cloth-cap, dunce's cap, jockey cap, nightcap, skullcap, swimming cap, trencher cap, etc.
b. spec. A helmet, a headpiece of mail. LME.
c. A cardinal's biretta. L16.
d. A special cap awarded as a sign of membership of a sporting team, esp. a national team in international competition; transf. a person awarded such a cap. L19.
In full cap-paper:
a. A kind of wrapping paper. L16.
b. A size or kind of Writing-paper. Cf. FOOLSCAP. M19.
A sum of money collected in a cap, esp. at a fox-hunt etc. from those who are not subscribing members. M19.
II. Something resembling this in shape, position, or use.
A caplike natural covering or topmost part. LME.
ice-cap, kneecap, snowcap, etc. WHITECAP.
W. Whitman The tossing waves,..the snowy, curling caps. F. O'Connor Her face, reddish under a cap of fox-colored hair.
b. spec. The top of a bird's head, when distinctively coloured. Also in names, as blackcap. L17.
c. The pileus of a mushroom or toadstool. Also in names, as death cap. M18.
A caplike part fitting over or forming the top or end of an object; a caplike cover or case; a device sealing the opening of a bottle etc., or protecting the lens of a camera etc. or the nib of a fountain pen. LME.
toecap: see TOE noun.
J. Ray The refining Furnace is covered with a thick cap of stone. J. Steinbeck Tom..loosened the oil cap with a pair of pliers.
Nautical. A wooden collar used to hold two masts together. E17.
A part laid horizontally along the top of various structures. L17.
R. Holme A Wall with a Cap or Head over the Door.
In full percussion cap. A metal or paper device (orig. cap-shaped) used with (real or toy) firearms and containing explosive powder which is exploded by the fall of a hammer. E19.
A contraceptive diaphragm. Cf. Dutch cap s.v. DUTCH adjective. E20.
III. Partly from the verb.
An imposed upper limit; an act of imposing an upper limit. L20.
Phrases: cap and bells: the insignia of the professional jester. cap in hand fig. humbly. cap of liberty a conical cap given to Roman slaves on emancipation, often used as a Republican symbol. cap of maintenance a cap or hat worn as a symbol of official dignity, or carried before a monarch etc. on ceremonial occasions. Dutch cap: see DUTCH adjective. Hungarian cap: see HUNGARIAN adjective. Kilmarnock cap: see KILMARNOCK 1. legal cap: see LEGAL adjective. Polar cap: see POLAR adjective. pull caps: see PULL verb. put on one's thinking cap: see THINKING noun 1a. saffron milk-cap: see SAFFRON adjective. set one's cap at seek to attract as a suitor. SHAGGY cap. the cap fits fig. a General remark is true of the person in question. throw one's cap over the windmill: see WINDMILL noun 1.
Comb.: cap-money = sense 5 above; cap-paper: see sense 4 above; cap rock an overlying stratum of (esp. resistant) rock; cap sleeve: extending only a short distance from the shoulder; capstone a stone which caps or crowns, a coping stone.
capful noun the amount that a cap will contain M17.
capless adjective M19.
caplike adjective resembling a cap in appearance, position, or use M19.

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