首页英语词典capitalcapital英英释意

capital

英 ['kæpɪt(ə)l] 美['kæpɪtl]
  • n. 首都,省会;资金;大写字母;资本家
  • adj. 首都的;重要的;大写的
  • n. (Capital)人名;(法)卡皮塔尔

英英释意


1. assets available for use in the production of further assets
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"
5. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature