Etymology : Middle English capitale, modification of Old North French capitel, from Late Latin capitellum small head, top of column, diminutive of Latin capit-, caput head; more at HEAD
Pronunciation : ka-p&-t
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Function : noun
Date : 13th century
1. city where national or regional government is located; property, assets, wealth; top of a column. main, chief, principal; punishable by death. capital\cap"i*tal\ , a. [f. capital, l. capitalis capital (in senses 1 & 2), fr. caput head. see:
chief, and cf. capital, n.].
2. of or pertaining to the head. [obs.] needs must the serpent now his capital bruise expect with mortal pain.
3. having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment. many crimes that are capital among us. to put to death a capital offender.
4. first in importance; chief; principal. a capital article in religion whatever is capital and essential in christianity. taylor.
5. 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.
6. of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song. [colloq.]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.
7. Of or pertaining to the head.
8. Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.
9. First in importance; chief; principal.
10. 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.
11. Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.
12. The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc.
13. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell , and necking.
14. See these terms, and Column.
15. The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.
16. Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest.
17. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
18. That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.
19. Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.
20. An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
21. A chapter, or section, of a book.
22. See Capital letter, under Capital, a. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature 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" a seat of government wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value assets available for use in the production of further assets uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat" punishable by death; "a capital offense" first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea".
23. 1. Capital is a large sum of money which you use to start a business, or which you invest in order to make more money. Companies are having difficulty in raising capital A large amount of capital is invested in all these branches.
24. You can use capital to refer to buildings or machinery which are necessary to produce goods or to make companies more efficient, but which do not make money directly. capital equipment that could have served to increase production. capital investment.
25. Capital is the part of an amount of money borrowed or invested which does not include interest. With a conventional repayment mortgage, the repayments consist of both capital and interest.
26. The capital of a country is the city or town where its government or parliament meets. Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
27. If a place is the capital of a particular industry or activity, it is the place that is most famous for it, because it happens in that place more than anywhere else. Colmar has long been considered the capital of the wine trade. New York, the fashion capital of the world.
28. Capitals or capital letters are written or printed letters in the form which is used at the beginning of sentences or names. `T', `B', and `F' are capitals. The name and address are written in capitals.
29. A capital offence is one that is so serious that the person who commits it can be punished by death. Espionage is a capital offence in this country. Americans wrongly convicted of capital crimes. see also:
working capital.
30. disapproval If you say that someone is making capital out of a situation, you disapprove of the way they are gaining an advantage for themselves through other people's efforts or bad luck. He rebuked the President for trying to make political capital out of the hostage situation. In architecture, the crowning member of a column, pier, pilaster, or other vertical form, providing a structural support and transition for the horizontal member (entablature) or arch above. In Classical styles, the capital is the architectural member that most readily identifies the order. Simple stone capitals have been found in the earliest known pyramids of ancient Egypt ( 2890-2686 BC), at Saqqarah. In economics, the stock of resources that are used to produce other goods now and in the future. In classical economics the three factors of production are capital, labour, and land. Capital embodies the man-made resources, which include the buildings, plant, equipment, and inventories created by all three factors. In this sense, capital goods may be contrasted with consumer goods. The creation of capital goods means that consumption is forgone, resulting in saving. The flow of saving becomes a flow of investment. Expenditures on education and training are often referred to as investment in human capital (see:
Gary S. Becker). Financial capital is the term given to the stocks and bonds issued in order to finance the acquisition of capital goods. Capital District of Santafé de Bogotá Australian Capital Territory capital gains tax capital levy capital punishment capital goods opera of the capital.
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