capital

英 ['k?p?t(?)l] 美['k?p?tl]
  • n. 首都,省會(huì);資金;大寫字母;資本家
  • adj. 首都的;重要的;大寫的
  • n. (Capital)人名;(法)卡皮塔爾

英英釋意


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