English - Etymology

From Middle French capture (noun).

English - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæp.t͡ʃəʳ/

English - Noun

capture (plural captures)

1. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
   • Blackstone

     even with regard to captures made at sea

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

   the capture of a lover's heart

3. Something that has been captured; a captive.
4. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.

Translations

English - Verb

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

1. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.

   to capture an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal

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

     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.

2. 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.

3. To reproduce convincingly.

   His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.

   In her latest masterpiece, she captured the essence of Venice.

4. 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.

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

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

Translations

English - Derived Terms

• screen capture
• capture the flag

English - Related Terms

• captivate
• captive
• captivity
• caption

English - See Also

• take
• arrest
• apprehend
• take over
• snapshot

English - Anagrams

• cuprate

French - Etymology

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

French - Noun

capture f (plural captures)

1. capture
2. a catch, a take

Derived terms

• capturer

French - Anagrams

• aperçut, aperçût
• capteur
• percuta

French - External Links

• “capture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin - Participle

captūre

1. vocative masculine singular of captūrus

Portuguese - Verb

capture

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of capturar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of capturar
3. first-person singular imperative of capturar
4. third-person singular imperative of capturar

Spanish - Verb

capture

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of capturar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of capturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of capturar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of capturar.

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