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Capitalize   /kˈæpətəlˌaɪz/   Listen
verb
Capitalize  v. t.  (past & past part. capitalized; pres. part. capitalizing)  
1.
To convert into capital, or to use as capital.
2.
To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)
3.
To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.
4.
To supply capital for (an enterprise), especially by selling capital stock.





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"Capitalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1917, we had succeeded, my friend B. and I, in dispensing with almost three of our six months' engagement as Voluntary Drivers, Sanitary Section 21, Ambulance Norton Harjes, American Red Cross, and at the moment which subsequent experience served to capitalize, had just finished the unlovely job of cleaning and greasing (nettoyer is the proper word) the own private flivver of the chief of section, a gentleman by the convenient name of Mr. A. To borrow a characteristic-cadence ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings
... something you persistently forget. Whatever the views of the solid citizens may be as to this marriage,—and once it is effected, they will accept it without doubt,—the Crown Prince is now and will remain the idol of the country. It is on his popularity we must depend. We must capitalize it. Mobs are sentimental. Whatever the Terrorists may think, this I know: that when the bell announces His Majesty's death, when Ferdinand William Otto steps out on the balcony, a small and lonely child, they will rally to him. That figure, ...
— Long Live the King • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... well one must be able to spell, punctuate, and capitalize; know the laws of grammar and how to apply them; be familiar with the principles of rhetoric; and have a wide acquaintance with good books. These qualities are not usually found in company with those which make a successful news-gatherer. A person who has both is therefore worth ...
— Practical English Composition: Book II. - For the Second Year of the High School • Edwin L. Miller
... laughter warms the cockles of an old man's heart, I invited the pair indoors, and over some bottled ale—I despise your new-fangled slops—we discussed the Fine Arts. It is not the custom nowadays to capitalize the arts, and to me it reveals the want of respect in this headlong irreverent generation. To return to my mutton—to my sheep: they told me they were pianists from New York or thereabouts, who had conceived the notion of spending ...
— Old Fogy - His Musical Opinions and Grotesques • James Huneker


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