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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Capital \Cap"i*tal\, a. [F. capital, L. capitalis capital (in senses 1 & 2), fr. caput head. See {Chief}, and cf. {Capital}, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to the head. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment. [1913 Webster] Many crimes that are capital among us. --Swift. [1913 Webster] To put to death a capital offender. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. First in importance; chief; principal. [1913 Webster] A capital article in religion --Atterbury. [1913 Webster] Whatever is capital and essential in Christianity. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 4. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities. [1913 Webster] 5. Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] {Capital letter} [F, lettre capitale] (Print.), a leading or heading letter, used at the beginning of a sentence and as the first letter of certain words, distinguished, for the most part, both by different form and larger size, from the small (lower-case) letters, which form the greater part of common print or writing. {Small capital letters} have the form of capital letters and height of the body of the lower-case letters. {Capital stock}, money, property, or stock invested in any business, or the enterprise of any corporation or institution. --Abbott. Syn: Chief; leading; controlling; prominent. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: capital \cap"i*tal\ (k[a^]p"[i^]*tal), n. [Cf. L. capitellum and capitulum, a small head, the head, top, or capital of a column, dim. of caput head; F. chapiteau, OF. capitel. See {chief}, and cf. {cattle}, {chattel}, {chapiter}, {chapter}.] 1. (Arch.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and {Column}. [1913 Webster] 2. [Cf. F. capilate, fem., sc. ville.] (Geog.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital" --Macauly. [1913 Webster] 3. [Cf. F. capital.] Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See {Capital stock}, under {Capital}, a. [1913 Webster] 4. (Polit. Econ.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. --M'Culloch. [1913 Webster] Note: When wealth is used to assist production it is called capital. The capital of a civilized community includes {fixed capital} (i.e. buildings, machines, and roads used in the course of production and exchange) and {circulating capital} (i.e., food, fuel, money, etc., spent in the course of production and exchange). --T. Raleigh. [1913 Webster] 5. Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence. [1913 Webster] He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture. --London Times. [1913 Webster] 6. (Fort.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts. [1913 Webster] 7. A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 8. (Print.) See {Capital letter}, under {Capital}, a. [1913 Webster] {Active capital}. See under {Active}, {Small capital} (Print.), a small capital letter; informally referred to (in the plural) as {small caps}; as, the technical terms are listed in {small caps}. See under {Capital}, a. {To live on one's capital}, to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: capital adj 1: first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea" 2: of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat" 3: uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" [syn: {capital}, {great}, {majuscule}] n 1: assets available for use in the production of further assets [syn: {capital}, {working capital}] 2: wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value 3: a seat of government 4: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" [syn: {capital}, {capital letter}, {uppercase}, {upper-case letter}, {majuscule}] [ant: {lower-case letter}, {lowercase}, {minuscule}, {small letter}] 5: a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia" 6: the federal government of the United States [syn: {Capital}, {Washington}] 7: a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories [syn: {Das Kapital}, {Capital}] 8: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature [syn: {capital}, {chapiter}, {cap}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: capital /kapital/ capital From Portuguese-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-por-eng]: capital 1. capital 2. chief; main; major; principal 3. capital; capital city; metropolis From Spanish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-spa-eng]: capital 1. capital(kapitalo) 2. metropolis(metropolo) 3. capital; capital city; metropolis(ĉefurbo)