capture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French capture (noun), from Latin captūra. Displaced native Old English fenġ (noun) and ġefōn (verb).
Inflected forms:
form: captures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: captures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: capturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: captured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: captured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: even with regard to captures made at sea
gloss: The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the capture of a lover’s heart
gloss: Something that has been captured; a captive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The recording or storage of something for later playback.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: video capture
gloss: A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After the match […], the text matched within the named capture is available via the Match object's Groups(name) property.
gloss: To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to capture an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal
Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
[…]I said it was because Tillerson hadn't filled the subordinate ranks with appointees who would advance the Administration's policies and that he had, in effect, been captured by the careerists.
Being so inflexible, the railway was easy prey to road competition, and the arrival of unregulated lorry transport from farm fields to town centres quickly captured all locally generated business.
gloss: To take hold of.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The paintings in the gallery really captured my imagination.
gloss: To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She captured the sounds of a subway station on tape.
She captured the details of the fresco in a series of photographs.
Ultimately, whether you want to shoot digital or film, the object is to give the client what they want and to capture the image you want, the way you want it to look.
gloss: To reproduce convincingly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.
In her latest masterpiece, she captured the essence of Venice.
Winterhalter was gifted at capturing the luxurious fabrics and hairstyles of female royalty and he was commissioned to paint portraits of the continental Empresses Eugénie of France and Elizabeth of Austria.
gloss: To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My pawn was captured.
He captured his opponent’s queen on the 15th move.
How deeply ingrained capturing is in the mind of a chess master can be seen from this story.
Synonyms: seize
take away
abduct
kidnap
hold hostage
apprehend
begripe
capture
fang
grasp
get
gripe
lay hold of
rape
take
take hold
Antonyms: let go
liberate
release
rescue
unhand
Related words: caption
captivate
captive
captivity
apprehend
arrest
snapshot
take
take over
booty
Derived words: aerocapture
captee
capturability
capturable
capture card
capture effect
captureless
capture myopathy
capture the flag
carbon capture
cavicapture
chromosome conformation capture
cocapture
direct air capture
electron capture
electron capture detector
elite capture
encapture
glycocapture
image capture
immunocapture
lithocapture
magnetism-based interaction capture
motion capture
motion-capture
multicapture
neutron capture
oligocapture
photocapture
piscicapture
postcapture
precapture
proton capture
recapture
regulatory capture
screen capture
screen motion capture
slips and capture
state capture
uncapture
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: վերցնել
roman: vercʻnel
lang: Bulgarian
word: взимам
roman: vzimam
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 食
roman: sik⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 吃
roman: chī
lang: Czech
word: vzít
lang: Czech
word: zajmout
lang: Dutch
word: slaan
lang: Finnish
word: lyödä
lang: Finnish
word: syödä
lang: French
word: prendre
lang: Italian
word: catturare
lang: Italian
word: mangiare
lang: Italian
word: prendere
lang: Japanese
word: とる
roman: toru
lang: Polish
word: zbić
lang: Portuguese
word: capturar
lang: Russian
word: брать
roman: bratʹ
lang: Russian
word: взять
roman: vzjatʹ
lang: Russian
word: овладева́ть
roman: ovladevátʹ
lang: Russian
word: овладе́ть
roman: ovladétʹ
lang: Slovene
word: vzeti
lang: Spanish
word: capturar
lang: Swahili
word: nasa
lang: Swedish
word: ta
lang: Turkish
word: yemek
lang: Ukrainian
word: заволоді́ти
roman: zavolodíty
lang: Ukrainian
word: погли́нути
roman: pohlýnuty
lang: Vietnamese
word: ăn