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Definitions: Capitalise |
CapitaliseVerb1. Supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders. 2. Draw advantages from; "he is capitalizing on her mistake"; "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover". 3. Write in capital letters. 4. Compute the present value of a business or an income. 5. Consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses. 6. Convert into capital, as of a company's reserve funds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Capitalise" is a common misspelling or typo for: capitalism, capitalist, capitalize, capitalized. |
Synonyms: CapitaliseSynonyms: capitalize (v), take advantage (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: to capitalise (financebusiness), to capitalise profits, to capitalize, to capitalize profits. |
Crosswords: Capitalise |
| Specialty definitions using "capitalise": technical analyst. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Capitalise" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (capitalizes). |
| "Capitalise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 93.83% of the time. "Capitalise" is used about 162 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 93.83% | 152 | 25,494 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.56% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.62% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 162 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "capitalise": to capitalise. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "capitalise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | "大写书写 (Capitalize, Capitalized, Capitalizing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | kapitalisere (to capitalise, to capitalize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | kapitaliseren (to capitalise, to capitalize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | pääomittaa (to capitalise, to capitalize), kapitaloida (to capitalise, to capitalize). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | capitaliser (capitalize, to capitalise, to capitalize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | capitalizzare (capitalize, to capitalise, to capitalize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 투자하십시" (Capitalize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | apitalisecay capitalizar (capitalize, to capitalise, to capitalize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "capitalise": capitalised, capitalises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-l-p-s-t" | |
-2 letters: aplastic, capitals, ciliates, placates, septical, silicate, stapelia, tieclasp, tilapias. | |
-3 letters: acetals, apicals, aplites, aplitic, aseptic, capital, caplets, ciliate, elastic, elicits, episcia, italics, laciest, lactase, laicise, laities, latices, palaces, palates, paliest, pelitic, placate, placets, plaices, plastic, platies, plicate, spacial, spatial, special, spicate, talipes, tilapia. | |
-4 letters: aaliis, acetal, aecial, alates, apical, apices, aplite, aspect, atelic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-l-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: capitalised, capitalises, capitalizes. | |
+2 letters: capabilities, capitularies, speciational. | |
+3 letters: antiparticles, atypicalities, capillarities, coplanarities, packabilities, pantheistical, parfocalities, particularise, paternalistic, placabilities, precapitalist, quasiparticle, recapitalizes. | |
+4 letters: antineoplastic, antiseptically, cephalizations, incapabilities, particularised, particularises, particularizes, practicalities, precapitalists, quasiparticles, reapplications, specialisation, specialization. | |
+5 letters: acceptabilities, antispeculation, antispeculative, applicabilities, comparabilities, implacabilities, overcapitalizes, pantheistically, particularities, platinocyanides, recapitulations, specialisations, specializations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 70 69 74 61 6C 69 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .--. .. - .- .-.. .. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110000 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a p i t a l i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0070 0069 0074 0061 006C 0069 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678275866778758571 |
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