Main Difference
The main difference between Cap and Hat is that the Cap is a brimless head covering, sometimes made with a visor and Hat is a shaped head covering, having a brim and a crown, or one of these.
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Cap
A cap is a form of headgear. Caps have crowns that fit very close to the head. They are typically designed for warmth and, when including a visor, blocking sunlight from the eyes. They come in many shapes and sizes.
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Hat
A hat is a head covering which is worn for various reasons, including protection against weather conditions, ceremonial reasons such as university graduation, religious reasons, safety, or as a fashion accessory. In the past, hats were an indicator of social status. In the military, hats may denote nationality, branch of service, rank or regiment. Police typically wear distinctive hats such as peaked caps or brimmed hats, such as those worn by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Some hats have a protective function. As examples, the hard hat protects construction workers’ heads from injury by falling objects and a British police Custodian helmet protects the officer’s head, a sun hat shades the face and shoulders from the sun, a cowboy hat protects against sun and rain and a Ushanka fur hat with fold-down earflaps keeps the head and ears warm. Some hats are worn for ceremonial purposes, such as the mortarboard, which is worn (or carried) during university graduation ceremonies. Some hats are worn by members of a certain profession, such as the Toque worn by chefs. Some hats have religious functions, such as the mitres worn by Bishops and the turban worn by Sikhs.
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Cap (noun)
A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
“The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.”
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Cap (noun)
A special hat to indicate rank, occupation etc.
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Cap (noun)
An academic mortarboard
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Cap (noun)
A protective cover or seal
“He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.”
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Cap (noun)
A crown for covering a tooth
“He had golden caps on his teeth.”
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Cap (noun)
The summit of a mountain etc.
“There was snow on the cap of the mountain.”
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Cap (noun)
An artificial upper limit or ceiling
“We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.”
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Cap (noun)
The top part of a mushroom
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Cap (noun)
A small amount of gunpowder in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun
“Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.”
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Cap (noun)
A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives
“He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.”
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Cap (noun)
A bullet used to shoot someone.
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Cap (noun)
An international appearance
“Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.”
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Cap (noun)
The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
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Cap (noun)
A respectful uncovering of the head.
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Cap (noun)
The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
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Cap (noun)
The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
“the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate”
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Cap (noun)
Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
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Cap (noun)
A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
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Cap (noun)
A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
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Cap (noun)
A large size of writing paper.
“flat cap; foolscap; legal cap”
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Cap (noun)
Capitalization.
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Cap (noun)
An uppercase letter.
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Cap (noun)
capacitor
“Parasitic caps.”
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Cap (noun)
A recording or screenshot.
“Anyone have a cap of the games last night?”
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Cap (verb)
To cover or seal with a cap
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Cap (verb)
To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
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Cap (verb)
To lie over or on top of something
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Cap (verb)
To surpass or outdo
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Cap (verb)
To set an upper limit on something
“cap wages.”
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Cap (verb)
To make something even more wonderful at the end.
“That really capped my day.”
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Cap (verb)
To select a player to play for a specified side
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Cap (verb)
To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
“If he don’t get outta my hood, I’m gonna cap his ass.”
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Cap (verb)
to select to play for the national team.
“Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.”
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Cap (verb)
To uncover the head respectfully.
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Cap (verb)
To deprive of a cap.
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Cap (verb)
To convert text to uppercase.
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Cap (verb)
To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
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Hat (noun)
A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
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Hat (noun)
A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
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Hat (noun)
Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
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Hat (noun)
A hat switch.
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Hat (noun)
The háček symbol.
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Hat (noun)
The caret symbol ^.
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Hat (noun)
User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
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Hat (verb)
To place a hat on.
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Hat (verb)
To appoint as cardinal.
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Cap (noun)
a kind of soft, flat hat without a brim and typically with a peak
“a man wearing a raincoat and a flat cap”
“her cap of dark hair”
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Cap (noun)
a kind of soft, close-fitting head covering worn for a particular purpose
“a bathing cap”
“a shower cap”
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Cap (noun)
a cap awarded as a sign of membership of a particular sports team, especially a national team
“he has won three caps for Scotland”
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Cap (noun)
a player to whom a cap is awarded
“a former naval officer and rugby cap”
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Cap (noun)
an academic mortar board
“school-leavers in cap and gown”
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Cap (noun)
the top of a bird’s head when distinctively coloured.
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Cap (noun)
a protective lid or cover for an object such as a bottle, the point of a pen, or a camera lens
“a glass bottle with a screw cap”
“a lens cap from a camera”
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Cap (noun)
an artificial protective covering for a tooth.
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Cap (noun)
an upper limit imposed on spending or borrowing
“he raised the cap on local authority spending”
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Cap (noun)
a contraceptive diaphragm.
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Cap (noun)
the broad upper part of the fruiting body of most mushrooms and toadstools, at the top of a stem and bearing gills or pores.
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Cap (noun)
short for percussion cap
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Cap (noun)
short for capitalization
“small-cap stocks”
“mid-cap companies”
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Cap (verb)
put a lid or cover on
“he capped his pen”
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Cap (verb)
form a covering layer or topmost part of
“snow-capped mountains”
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Cap (verb)
put an artificial protective covering on (a tooth)
“his smile revealed perfectly capped teeth”
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Cap (verb)
provide a fitting climax or conclusion to
“he capped a memorable season by becoming champion of champions”
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Cap (verb)
follow or reply to (a story, remark, or joke) by producing a better one
“he prayed no wit would cap his remark with some repartee”
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Cap (verb)
place a limit or restriction on (prices, expenditure, or borrowing)
“council budgets will be capped”
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Cap (verb)
be chosen as a member of a particular sports team, especially a national one
“he was capped ten times by England”
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Cap (verb)
confer a university degree on.