[N] capital, See also:metropolis, capital city, Syn.เมืองหลวง, นครหลวง, Example: พระบาทสมเด็จพระพุทธยอดฟ้าจุฬาโลกมหาราชทรงย้ายพระนครมาตั้งที่กรุงเทพมหานคร, Count unit: เมือง, แห่ง
[n. exp.] (jut samkhan) EN: important point ; crux ; crucial point ; essential point ; keynote ; important part ; crux of the matter FR: point capital [m] ; point essentiel [m] ; point crucial [m] ; point important [m]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (6 entries found)
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.]
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Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise
Expect with mortal pain. --Milton.
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2. Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the
head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as,
capital trials; capital punishment.
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Many crimes that are capital among us. --Swift.
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To put to death a capital offender. --Milton.
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3. First in importance; chief; principal.
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A capital article in religion --Atterbury.
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Whatever is capital and essential in Christianity.
--I. Taylor.
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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.
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5. Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or
song. [Colloq.]
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{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.
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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}.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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5. Anything which can be used to increase one's power or
influence.
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He tried to make capital out of his rival's
discomfiture. --London
Times.
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6. (Fort.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or
other work, into two equal parts.
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7. A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.]
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Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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8. (Print.) See {Capital letter}, under {Capital}, a.
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{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.
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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 [fd-fra-eng]:
capital [kapital]
capital
From Portuguese-English Freedict dictionary [fd-por-eng]:
capital
capital
chief; main; major; principal
capital; capital city; metropolis
From Spanish-English Freedict dictionary [fd-spa-eng]:
capital
capital; capital city; metropolis
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