capture

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæp.ʃɚ/, /ˈkæp.t͡ʃɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæp.ʃə/, /ˈkæp.t͡ʃə/
• Rhymes: -æpʃə(ɹ), -æptʃə(ɹ)

Noun

capture (countable and uncountable, plural captures)

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. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.

Translations

Verb

capture (third-person singular simple present captures, present participle capturing, simple past and past participle captured)

1. (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
2. (transitive, figurative) To take hold of.

   Synonyms: catch, grab, seize

3. (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
4. (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
5. (transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

Synonyms

• seize
• take away
• abduct
• kidnap
• hold hostage

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• cuprate, uptrace

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin captūra (“catching, capture”), from captus, perfect passive participle of capiō (“capture, seize, take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap.tyʁ/

Noun

capture f (plural captures)

1. capture
2. a catch, a take

Derived terms

• capture d’écran
• capturer

Further reading

• “capture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• aperçut, aperçût
• capteur
• percuta

Galician

Verb

capture

1. inflection of capturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kapˈtuː.re/, [käpˈt̪uːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kapˈtu.re/, [käpˈt̪uːre]

Participle

captūre

1. vocative masculine singular of captūrus

Portuguese

Verb

capture

1. inflection of capturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kabˈtuɾe/ [kaβ̞ˈt̪u.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -uɾe
• Syllabification: cap‧tu‧re

Verb

capture

1. inflection of capturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative