capitalize-v; 6 Senses

Sense Number 1: Draw advantages from; take advantage.

Examples:
Sales climbed 71% to $6.36 billion from $3.72 billion as the company
capitalized on the ravenous global demand for commercial airliners.
He is capitalizing on her mistake.
She capitalized on his absence and met her lover.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: capitalize.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: Write in capital letters.

Examples:
Children often capitalize when they aren't supposed to.
I capitalized all of the letters to make my writing clearer.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3

Sense Number 3: Supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders.

Examples:
He capitalized his friend's business venture, allowing him to open
the three stores planned.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: capitalize.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 4: Compute the value of a business or an income.

Examples:
I capitalized GM's market value yesterday.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 5: Consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses.

Examples:
If we capitalize expense of building the oil rig, then we can consider
it a long term company asset.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5

Sense Number 6: Convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital.

Examples:
A company can capitalize some of its company stock to start a second
building.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: capitalize.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6