(anatomy) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
(anatomy) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(anatomy) The head.
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The top or superior part of a thing.
“Why do etymologists assume the original meaning of the Latin word "capere" was "to snatch" and that it only later shifted to "to understand"? Is not it more likely that it is related to "caput" (head, as in "organ of understanding")?”
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