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Meaning of "El Capitan" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EL CAPITAN

El Capitan  [ɛl ˌkapɪˈtæn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EL CAPITAN

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El Capitan is a noun.
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WHAT DOES EL CAPITAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

El Capitan

El Capitan

El Capitan is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, located on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The granite monolith extends about 3,000 feet from base to summit along its tallest face, and is one of the world's favorite challenges for rock climbers and BASE jumpers. The formation was named "El Capitan" by the Mariposa Battalion when it explored the valley in 1851. El Capitán was taken to be a loose Spanish translation of the local Native American name for the cliff, variously transcribed as "To-to-kon oo-lah" or "To-tock-ah-noo-lah". It is unclear if the Native American name referred to a specific Tribal chief, or simply meant "the chief" or "rock chief". In modern times, the formation's name is often contracted to "El Cap", especially among rock climbers and BASE jumpers The top of El Capitan can be reached by hiking out of Yosemite Valley on the trail next to Yosemite Falls, then proceeding west. For climbers, the challenge is to climb up the sheer granite face; there are many named climbing routes, all of them arduous.

Definition of El Capitan in the English dictionary

The definition of El Capitan in the dictionary is a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada: a monolith with a precipice rising over 1100 m above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Height: 2306 m.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EL CAPITAN


arctan
ˈɑːkˌtæn
Bataan
bəˈtæn
caftan
ˈkæfˌtæn
constantan
ˈkɒnstənˌtæn
cotan
ˈkəʊˌtæn
Hotan
ˈhəʊˈtæn
kaftan
ˈkæftæn
Kazakhstan
ˌkɑːzɑːkˈstæn
Kazakstan
ˌkɑːzɑːkˈstæn
mangostan
ˈmæŋɡəʊˌstæn
mercaptan
mɜːˈkæptæn
orang-utan
ɔːˌræŋuːˈtæn
Powhatan
ˌpaʊhəˈtæn
ratan
ræˈtæn
rattan
ræˈtæn
self-tan
ˌselfˈtæn
soutane
suːˈtæn
suntan
ˈsʌnˌtæn
tan
tæn
Viangchan
wiːɛŋtæn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EL CAPITAN

El Alamein
El Beda
El Cid Campeador
El Dorado
El Ferrol
El Ferrol del Caudillo
El Greco
El Iskandariyah
El Khalil
El Minya
El Misti
El Obeid
El Paso
El Paso del Norte
El Qahira
El Salvador

WORDS THAT END LIKE EL CAPITAN

cosmopolitan
Good Samaritan
heteropolitan
Liverpolitan
megalopolitan
metropolitan
Neapolitan
nonmetropolitan
pentapolitan
puritan
Samaritan
securitan
Shaitan
sheitan
technopolitan
tetrapolitan
Theocritan
titan
witan

Synonyms and antonyms of El Capitan in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «El Capitan» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EL CAPITAN

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The translations of El Capitan from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «El Capitan» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

埃尔卡皮坦
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

El Capitán
570 millions of speakers

English

El Capitan
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

El Capitan
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كابيتان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

El Capitan
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

El Capitan
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

এল ক্যাপিটান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

El Capitan
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

El Capitan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

El Capitan
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

エル·キャピタン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

엘 카피 탄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

El Capitan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

El Capitan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எல் கேப்டன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एल कॅपिटन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

El Capitan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

El Capitan
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

El Capitan
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

El Capitan
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

El Capitan
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

El Capitan
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

El Capitan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

El Capitan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

El Capitan
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of El Capitan

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EL CAPITAN»

The term «El Capitan» is quite widely used and occupies the 52.540 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EL CAPITAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about El Capitan

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EL CAPITAN»

Discover the use of El Capitan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to El Capitan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
El Capitan: Historic Feats and Radical Routes
Accompanied by 36 moody duotones, this book captures the essence of big-wall climbing.
Daniel Duane, 2000
2
100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park
The first 0.5 mile is a punishing 400-foot-in-elevation climb over a chaparral-clad slope to a ridge featuring a view of El Capitan and Half Dome. Thousands of ponderosa pines that sprouted in open areas in the early 1990s are thriving here.
Marc J. Soares, 2003
3
Sombrero de Tres Picos & El Capitán Veneno
Era tan extraordinaria y prodigiosa aquella emocion en un hombre como el Capitan Veneno, que Angustias, en inedio de su horrible des, gracia, no pudo inenos de significarle aprecio y gratitud, poniendole una mano sobre el coraz6n .
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Stanley Appelbaum, 2002
4
El Capitán Veneno: Captain (Venom/Poison)
Captain (Venom/Poison) Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. El capitán Veneno. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Front Cover.
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, 1914
5
Larke, El Capitan and the Theory of Everything
MAGELLAN. JOHN FRANK MACMULLAN WAS ELEVEN, his fifth grade school year just completed. He was John after our Mother's brother—Uncle Jack. We'd never met Uncle Jack, but he was recollected for us by Mom as her favorite sibling, ...
Hugh Macmullan, 2010
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Fifty Favorite Climbs: The Ultimate North American Tick List
PACIFIC OCEAN WALL, EL CAPITAN, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA Installing a rivet ladder on the ... of the Nose on El Capitan, first free ascent of stoveleg cracks 1969: First two-bivouac ascent of the Salathe Wall, El Capitan ...
Mark Kroese, 2001
7
California's Coastal Parks: A Day Hiker's Guide
EL CAPITAN STATE BEACH El Capitan Beach Trail From El Capitan to Refugio State Beach is 6 miles round trip Monarch butterflies and mellow beaches are the highlights of this coast walk north of Santa Barbara. Autumn, when the crowds ...
John McKinney, 2005
8
San Diego Legends: The Events, People, and Places that Made ...
But a few years later, a story circulated in the press that a man who lived on the slopes of El Capitan showed up in Los Angeles with a huge chunk of nearly pure silver, which he sold for a hefty sum before going on a drinking binge. About a ...
Jack Scheffler Innis, 2004
9
Santa Fe Chiefs
The specific times and stops discussed below were generally accurate for most of the golden age of dieselized El Capitan service during the 1950s. They reflect El Capitans identity as an independent train, before its integration with the Super ...
Bill Yenne
10
LIFE
Up through Cajon Pass in California, the tracks of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe climb a 2.2% grade. The passengers sitting inside the streamlined cars of El Capitan, the Santa Fe's crack coach train, suddenly hear a sound most of them ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EL CAPITAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term El Capitan is used in the context of the following news items.
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iOS 9, OS X El Capitan to beef up your Apple account security
Look for tighter account security in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan if you forget your password. CNET. Apple is shaking up the way it confirms ... «CNET, Jul 15»
2
iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan Public Betas Coming Soon
The third betas of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan launched today, and a new document outlining a revamped two-factor authentication feature built ... «Mac Rumors, Jul 15»
3
Apple Seeds Third OS X 10.11 El Capitan Beta to Developers
Apple today released the third beta of OS X 10.11 El Capitan to developers for testing purposes, just over two weeks after releasing the second ... «Mac Rumors, Jul 15»
4
Apple iOS 9 And OS X El Capitan To Come With Two-Factor …
Apple is introducing a revamped two-factor authentication system in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, according to support documents published by ... «International Business Times, Jul 15»
5
CHOMP: Celebrate Shark Week Right, at El Capitan
But if you need a little extra prodding to watch Great Whites and thresher sharks on the Discovery Channel, El Capitan in SOMA has the ... «SF Weekly, Jul 15»
6
Virtually climb El Capitan with Google Street View
If you are interested at all in amazing feats of human strength and endurance, then you were surely captivated by the 19-day free climb up El ... «Treehugger, Jul 15»
7
OS X El Capitan: How Apple Will Make IT Happy
With OS X El Capitan, Apple is touching on the right enterprise features that business users and IT administrators want, including security, ... «InformationWeek, Jul 15»
8
El Capitan climbers Kevin Jorgeson, Tommy Caldwell set to appear …
Yosemite climbers Kevin Jorgeson, a Santa Rosa native, and Tommy Caldwell, who won international fame for scaling El Capitan last January, ... «Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Jul 15»
9
These five new features will make you respect OS X El Capitan
In case you hadn't heard, Apple has released details on the next big OS X 10.11 update, called El Capitan. This update focuses a lot on ... «Digital Trends, Jul 15»
10
"Shark & Bake" Is Happening at El Capitan; Camino's Got Steak …
SOMA— Shark Week seems to have snuck up on almost everyone this year— with the exception of the brave folks at El Capitan. To celebrate ... «Eater SF, Jul 15»

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