Etymology

Borrowed from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from Middle French#CAPTURECategory:English terms derived from Middle French#CAPTURE capture (noun), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#CAPTURE captūra. Displaced native Old English fenġ (noun) and ġefōn (verb).

Pronunciation

• (non-rhotic)
  • (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæp.(t)ʃəː/, [ˈkʰæp.(t)ʃəː]Category:English 2-syllable words#CAPTURECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CAPTURE
  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛp.(t)ʃɘː/, [ˈkʰɛp.(t)ʃɘː]Category:English 2-syllable words#CAPTURECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CAPTURE
• (rhotic)
  • (General American, Standard Canadian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, [ˈkʰæp.(t)ʃɚ] ~ [ˈkʰæp.(t)ʃɹ̩]Category:English 2-syllable words#CAPTURECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CAPTURE

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• Rhymes: -æpʃə(ɹ), -æptʃə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/æpʃə(ɹ)#CAPTURECategory:Rhymes:English/æpʃə(ɹ)/2 syllables#CAPTURECategory:Rhymes:English/æptʃə(ɹ)#CAPTURECategory:Rhymes:English/æptʃə(ɹ)/2 syllables#CAPTURE
• Hyphenation: cap‧ture

Noun

capture (countable and uncountable, plural captures)Category:English lemmas#CAPTURECategory:English nouns#CAPTURECategory:English uncountable nouns#CAPTURECategory:English countable nouns#CAPTURECategory:English countable nouns#CAPTURECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CAPTURECategory:Pages with entries#CAPTURECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CAPTURE

1. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     even with regard to captures made at sea

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

   the capture of a lover’s heartCategory:English terms with collocations#CAPTURE

3. Something that has been captured; a captive.
4. The recording or storage of something for later playback.

   video captureCategory:English terms with collocations#CAPTURE

5. (computingCategory:en:Computing#CAPTURE, regular expressionsCategory:en:Regular expressions#CAPTURE) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
   • 2006, Jeffrey Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions, page 409:

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

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Verb

capture (third-person singular simple present captures, present participle capturing, simple past and past participle captured)Category:English lemmas#CAPTURECategory:English verbs#CAPTURECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CAPTURECategory:Pages with entries#CAPTURECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CAPTURE

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CAPTURE) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.

   to capture an enemy, a vessel, or a criminalCategory:English terms with collocations#CAPTURE

   • 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

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   • 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 29:

     […] 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.

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   • 2020 November 18, Howard Johnston, “The missing 'Lincs' and the sole survivor”, in Rail, page 58:

     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.

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CAPTURE, figurative) To take hold of.

   Synonyms: catch, grab, seize

   The paintings in the gallery really captured my imagination.Category:English terms with usage examples#CAPTURE

3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CAPTURE) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.

   She captured the sounds of a subway station on tape.Category:English terms with usage examples#CAPTURE

   She captured the details of the fresco in a series of photographs.Category:English terms with usage examples#CAPTURE

   • 2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, →ISBN, page 86:

     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.

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4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CAPTURE) To reproduce convincingly.

   His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.Category:English terms with usage examples#CAPTURE

   In her latest masterpiece, she captured the essence of Venice.Category:English terms with usage examples#CAPTURE

   • 2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN, page 86:

     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.

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5. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CAPTURE) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

   My pawn was captured.Category:English terms with usage examples#CAPTURE

   He captured his opponent’s queen on the 15th move.Category:English terms with usage examples#CAPTURE

   • 1954, Fred Reinfeld, How to Be a Winner at Chess, Garden City, NY: Hanover House, page 63:

     How deeply ingrained capturing is in the mind of a chess master can be seen from this story.

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Anagrams

• cuprate, uptrace

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#CAPTURECategory:French terms derived from Latin#CAPTURE captūra (“catching, capture”), from captus, perfect passive participle of capiō (“capture, seize, take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap.tyʁ/Category:French 2-syllable words#CAPTURECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#CAPTURE

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Noun

capture f (plural captures)Category:French lemmas#CAPTURECategory:French nouns#CAPTURECategory:French countable nouns#CAPTURECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#CAPTURECategory:French feminine nouns#CAPTURECategory:Pages with entries#CAPTURECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CAPTURE

1. capture
2. a catch, a take

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• aperçut, aperçût
• capteur
• percuta

Verb

captureCategory:Galician non-lemma forms#CAPTURECategory:Galician verb forms#CAPTURECategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#CAPTURECategory:Pages with entries#CAPTURECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CAPTURE

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kapˈtuː.rɛ]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#CAPTURECategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CAPTURE
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kapˈtuː.re]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#CAPTURECategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CAPTURE

Participle

captūreCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#CAPTURECategory:Latin participle forms#CAPTURECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#CAPTURECategory:Pages with entries#CAPTURECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CAPTURE

1. vocative masculine singular of captūrus

Verb

captureCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#CAPTURECategory:Portuguese verb forms#CAPTURECategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#CAPTURECategory:Pages with entries#CAPTURECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CAPTURE

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kabˈtuɾe/ [kaβ̞ˈt̪u.ɾe]Category:Spanish 3-syllable words#CAPTURECategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#CAPTURE
• Rhymes: -uɾeCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/uɾe#CAPTURECategory:Rhymes:Spanish/uɾe/3 syllables#CAPTURE
• Syllabification: cap‧tu‧re

Verb

captureCategory:Spanish non-lemma forms#CAPTURECategory:Spanish verb forms#CAPTURECategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CAPTURECategory:Pages with entries#CAPTURECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CAPTURE

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