Sekirov Dictionary

capstone

/ˈkæpˌstoʊn/

noun 2
verb 2
forms 3

noun2

Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.
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(figurative) A crowning achievement, culmination or finishing touch.
- “You see, I’ve never had a girl friend,” I added, by way of topping the obelisk of silliness with the capstone of fatuity. — 1904

verb2

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To complete as a crowning achievement; to top off.
- Capstoning a decade's worth of linked short stories, The Quiet War (2008) was a vivid and tense novel about a solar system sliding into conflict. — 2012
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(US, informal) To train in the Capstone Military Leadership Program.
- “Capstoned” units are now able to train and plan in peacetime with the command with which they will fight in wartime. — 1981

forms

capstoned · capstoning · capstones

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