captions

Noun

caption (plural captions)

1. The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
2. A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
   • Some of the photographs are new and interesting, but many captions are amateurish, uninformative or simply careless.1964 September, “New Books: The History of Railways. By Erwin Berghaus. Barrie & Rockcliff. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, page 222
3. A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
   • (theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.
4. The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
5. (obsolete) A seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel).
   • The caption and asportation must be felonious.1919 Thomas Welburn Hughes. A treatise on criminal law and procedure. The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA. Sec. 557 (p. 378).
6. (Internet) A story that is embedded in a pre-existing image (sometimes with image manipulation)

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