English Explanatory Dictionary

capture

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
  2. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
  3. Something that has been captured; a captive.
  4. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
  5. A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
verb
  1. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
  2. To take hold of.
  3. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
  4. To reproduce convincingly.
  5. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

Pronunciation

/ˈkæp.(t)ʃəː/ [ˈkʰæp.(t)ʃəː] /ˈkɛp.(t)ʃɘː/ [ˈkʰɛp.(t)ʃɘː] /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/ [ˈkʰæp.(t)ʃɚ] ~ [ˈkʰæp.(t)ʃɹ̩] en-us-capture.ogg

Word forms

capture captures capturing captured

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French capture (noun), from Latin captūra. Displaced native Old English fenġ (noun) and ġefōn (verb).

Synonyms

seize take away abduct kidnap hold hostage apprehend begripe capture fang grasp get gripe lay hold of rape take take hold catch grab

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

Armenian: վերցնել Bulgarian: взимам Chinese Cantonese: 食 Chinese Mandarin: 吃 Czech: vzít Czech: zajmout Dutch: slaan Finnish: lyödä Finnish: syödä French: prendre Italian: catturare Italian: mangiare Italian: prendere Japanese: とる Polish: zbić Portuguese: capturar Russian: брать Russian: взять Russian: овладева́ть Russian: овладе́ть Slovene: vzeti Spanish: capturar Swahili: nasa Swedish: ta Turkish: yemek Ukrainian: заволоді́ти Ukrainian: погли́нути Vietnamese: ăn
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