capture
Syllables: cap·tureUK/ˈkæp.(t)ʃəː/
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New Zealand/ˈkɛp.(t)ʃɘː/
capture noun: an act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
Noun
capture (countable and uncountable, plural captures)
- An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
- even with regard to captures made at sea1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
- The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
- the capture of a lover’s heart
- Something that has been captured; a captive.
- The recording or storage of something for later playback.
- video capture
- 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.2006, Jeffrey Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions, page 409
Verb
capture (third-person singular simple present captures, present participle capturing, simple past and past participle captured)
- To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- to capture an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal
- 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...2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian
- To take hold of.
- The paintings in the gallery really captured my imagination.
- 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.
capture meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
capture in Tamil
- கைப்பற்றுதல், விழுங்குதல், பிடிப்பு, பற்றுகை, கைப்பற்றப்பட்ட பொருள் அல்லது இடம், பிணை
capture in Marathi
- कॅप्चर करणे
capture in Urdu
- capture, seizure
- قبض qabz
capture in Bengali
- to capture, to catch, to apprehend
- ধরা dhora
- to capture, to take
- তোলা tōla
- capture
- পতন poton
More languagesFewer languages
- capture in Telugu
- బంధించడానికి
- capture in Malayalam
- പിടിത്തം piṭittaṁ, ചാക്കിലാക്കുക cākkilākkuka, പിടിക്കുക piṭikkuka
- capture in Kannada
- ಸೆರೆಹಿಡಿ, ಆಕ್ರಮಣ, ಸೆರೆಹಿಡಿಯುವುದು, ಸ್ವಾಧೀನ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು
- capture in Sanskrit
- लाभ lābhá, गृह्णाति gṛhṇā́ti, लम्भ lambha, बन्ध bandhá
- capture in Nepali
- समात्नु samātnu
- capture in Arabic
- أَسْر ʔasr, أَسَرَ ʔasara
- capture in Persian
- بازگیری bâzgiri, اسیر کردن asir kardan
- capture in Thai
- ยึด yʉ́t
- capture in Vietnamese
- ăn, bắt
Examples of capture in a sentence
- 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.2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
- […]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.2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 29:
- 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.2020 November 18, Howard Johnston, “The missing 'Lincs' and the sole survivor”, in Rail, page 58:
- 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.2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, →ISBN, page 86:
Synonyms of capture
Antonyms
Forms of capture
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | captures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | captures |
| present participle | capturing |
| past participle | captured |
| past | captured |
Origin of capture
Borrowed from Middle French capture (noun), from Latin captūra. Displaced native Old English fenġ (noun) and ġefōn (verb).
Words formed from capture
- 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
Phrases with capture
Questions about capture
- What does capture mean?
- Capture means an act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
- What is capture in Tamil?
- Capture in Tamil is கைப்பற்றுதல், விழுங்குதல், பிடிப்பு. See Capture meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use capture in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is capture?
- Capture can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce capture?
- Capture is pronounced /ˈkæp.(t)ʃəː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of capture?
- The plural of capture is captures.
Words near capture in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: capture (page history and authors); capture (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); capture (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); قبض (Urdu) (page history and authors); তোলা (Bengali) (page history and authors); capture (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ചാക്കിലാക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); capture (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); गृह्णाति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); समात्नु (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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