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capture

noun
/ˈkæp.(t)ʃəː/UK/ˈkɛp.(t)ʃɘː//ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from captūra
  2. borrowed from capture

Definitions

  1. An act of capturing

    An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.

    • even with regard to captures made at sea

  2. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.

    • the capture of a lover’s heart

  3. Something that has been captured

    Something that has been captured; a captive.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. The recording or storage of something for later playback.

      • video capture

    2. A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.

      • After the match […], the text matched within the named capture is available via the Match object's Groups(name) property.

    3. To take control of

      To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.

      • to capture an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal
      • […]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.

    4. To take hold of.

      • The paintings in the gallery really captured my imagination.

    5. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.

      • 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.

    6. To reproduce convincingly.

      • 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.

    7. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

      • 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.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at capture. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at capture. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at capture

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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