capital

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Money and wealth: the means to acquire or produce goods and services, especially in a non-barter system. uncountable
    — Near-synonym: assets
  2. The uppermost part of a column. countable
    — But a great wonder of this chamber, and a marvel to behold, was how the capital of every one of the four-and-twenty pillars was hewn from a single precious stone, carved by the hand of some sculptor of long ago into the living form of a monster: […]
  3. Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures). uncountable
    — Near-synonym: assets
  4. The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence. uncountable
    — The markets crashing symbolized capital’s discontent with the tax reforms passed.
  5. A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it. countable
    — Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States of America.
  6. The most important city in the field specified. countable
    — Hollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital.
  7. An uppercase letter. countable
  8. Knowledge; awareness; proficiency. uncountable
    — Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession.
  9. The chief or most important thing. broadly,countable
形容词 adj.
  1. Of prime importance. not-comparable
    — a capital article in religion
  2. Chief (in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation). not-comparable
    — London and Paris are capital cities.
  3. Excellent. UK,comparable,dated,not-comparable
    — a capital fellow
  4. Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death. not-comparable
    — capital punishment; capital murder
  5. Uppercase. not-comparable
    — One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
  6. Uppercase.; used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness not-comparable
    — You're a genius with a capital G!
  7. Of or relating to the head. not-comparable
    — Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise / Expect with mortal pain.
感叹词 intj.
  1. used as an expression of approval, satisfaction, or delight. dated,slang
    — That's an amazing idea! Capital!

词形变化

capitals plural capitall alternative,obsolete capitall alternative,obsolete capitall alternative,obsolete capitals plural capitall alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
anticapital biocapital block capital block capitals capital account capital adequacy capital appreciation bond capital asset capital budgeting capital city capital control capital crime capitaldom capitaled capital equipment capital expenditure capital expense capital flight capital gain capital gains tax capital-G gamer capital good capital goods capital grant capital intensive capital-intensive capital investment capitalism capitalistic capitalitis capitalize capital letter capital loss capitally capital market capital market line capital messuage capital murder capitalness capital offence capital offense capital punishment Capital Regional District capital share capital ship capital stock capital structure capital surplus capital value capital virtues capital war capitonym countercapital cultural capital cybercapital drop capital economic capital erotic capital financial capital fixed capital human capital in capital letters intellectual capital make capital out of marginal cost of capital medial capital National Capital Region noncapital personal capital political capital real capital risk capital seed capital sexual capital share capital small capital social capital state capital subcapital subcultural capital trust capital venture capital weighted-average cost of capital working capital working capital requirement world capital
相关词
capita capitol capitulate capitulation captain chapiter chapter

词源

词源 1
From Middle English capital, borrowed partly from Old French capital and partly from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle. The noun is from the adjective. In the fourth sense, displaced native Old English hēafodburg, equivalent to head + borough (“city”).
Compare chattel and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”.
Doublet of cattle and chattel.
词源 2
From Middle English capitale, partly from Old French capital and partly from Late Latin capitellum (“capital or chapiter of a column”), a form of Latin capitulum (“head-like object or structure; chapter”) (whence English capitulum, chapter, and the synonym chapiter (“uppermost part of a column”)), from caput (“head”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix). Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capitellum, and caudillo.
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