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Small capital   /smɔl kˈæpətəl/   Listen
noun
capital  n.  
1.
(Arch.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
2.
(Geog.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital"
3.
Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
4.
(Polit. Econ.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. Note: When wealth is used to assist production it is called capital. The capital of a civilized community includes fixed capital (i.e. buildings, machines, and roads used in the course of production and exchange) and circulating capital (i.e., food, fuel, money, etc., spent in the course of production and exchange).
5.
Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence. "He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture."
6.
(Fort.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
7.
A chapter, or section, of a book. (Obs.) "Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital."
8.
(Print.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a.
Active capital. See under Active,
Small capital (Print.), a small capital letter; informally referred to (in the plural) as small caps; as, the technical terms are listed in small caps. See under Capital, a.
To live on one's capital, to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it.





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"Small capital" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1791, was made a constitutional curate, that is to say, a revolutionary Christian priest. In 1793, when even those were proscribed, he renounced the sacristy of his Church for the bar of a tavern, where, during 1794 and 1795, he gained a small capital by the number and liberality of his English customers. After the victories of his nephew Napoleon in Italy during the following year, he was advised to reassume the clerical habit, and after Napoleon's proclamation ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... In the printed book, all references to plays give the Act in lower-case Roman numerals and the Scene in small capital Roman numerals; the two look identical except for the dots over the i's. For this plain-text version, the conventional "IV.iv" sequence ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn
... it is a better place for me because of that, Aunt Mary; but it is as good a place as any, I suppose, in which to begin with a small capital." ...
— The Inglises - How the Way Opened • Margaret Murray Robertson
... is the land for you, as you seem to surmise. Australia is the land for two classes of emigrants: first, the man who has nothing but his wits, and plenty of them; secondly, the man who has a small capital, and who is contented to spend ten years in trebling it. I assume that you belong to the latter class. Take out L3,000, and before you are thirty years old you may return with L10,000 or L12,000. If that satisfies you, think seriously of Australia. By coach, ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... that boat. I simply ain't going to sea without the one or the other. Chicken coops are good enough, no doubt, and so is a dinghy; but they ain't for Joe." And his partners had been forced to consent, and saw six and thirty pounds of their small capital vanish in the turn of ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne


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