captioner

noun

Etymology

From caption + -er.

  1. borrowed from captiō
  2. suffixed as captioner — “caption + er

Definitions

  1. One who, or that which, adds captions.

    • Some captioners will raise or lower the captions in the center by one row to add one more subtle differentiation, but this is uncommon.
    • And how relieved the Ceefax captioners must be that Sir Alex Ferguson still refuses to give interviews to Match of the Day, because of a BBC documentary that upset him.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for captioner. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA