capture meaning
EN[ˈkæp.t͡ʃəʳ]US
WCapture
- Capture may refer to:
- Capture (chess), to remove the opponent's piece from the board by taking it with one's own piece
- Capture (politics), situations in which a government agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of other interests
- Capture (rivers), a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river is diverted from its own bed
- Capture (TV series), a reality show on The CW
- FM capture, a phenomenon in which only the stronger of two signals near the same FM frequency will be demodulated
FR capture
- NounPLcapturesSUF-ure
- VerbSGcapturesPRcapturingPT, PPcaptured
- To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- to capture an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal
- 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.
- To reproduce convincingly.
- His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.
- In her latest masterpiece, she captured the essence of Venice.
- 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.
- To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Admiral Buzby’s report describes an array of digital video recorders used to capture “activities” — it does not specify whether interrogations are included — in at least four subcamps at Guantánamo.
- In this way the model captures the gradual continentalization of weather (aridification) as air moves inland.
- The major mechanism by which extrasynaptically released serotonin seems to reach its targets involves its capture and later release by the surrounding glia.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Captured images were pseudocolorized using Adobe Photoshop.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of capture in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary