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capture
[ kap-cher ]
verb (used with object)
- to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize:
The police captured the burglar.
Synonyms: , , , , ,
Antonyms:
- to gain control of or exert influence over:
an ad that captured our attention;
a TV show that captured 30% of the prime-time audience.
- to take possession of, as in a game or contest:
to capture a pawn in chess.
- to represent or record in lasting form:
The movie succeeded in capturing the atmosphere of Berlin in the 1930s.
- Computers.
- to enter (data) into a computer for processing or storage.
- to record (data) in preparation for such entry.
noun
- the act of capturing.
Synonyms: , ,
Antonyms:
- the thing or person captured.
- Physics. the process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle.
- Crystallography. substitution in a crystal lattice of a trace element for an element of lower valence.
capture
/ ˈæʃə /
verb
- to take prisoner or gain control over
to capture a town
to capture an enemy
- (in a game or contest) to win control or possession of
to capture a pawn in chess
- to succeed in representing or describing (something elusive)
the artist captured her likeness
- physics (of an atom, molecule, ion, or nucleus) to acquire (an additional particle)
- to insert or transfer (data) into a computer
noun
- the act of taking by force; seizure
- the person or thing captured; booty
- physics a process by which an atom, molecule, ion, or nucleus acquires an additional particle
- Also calledpiracy geography the process by which the headwaters of one river are diverted into another through erosion caused by the second river's tributaries
- the act or process of inserting or transferring data into a computer
Derived Forms
- ˈٳܰ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- tܰ·· adjective
- tܰ· noun
- ·tܰ adjective verb (used with object) precaptured precapturing
- un·tܰ·· adjective
- ܲ·tܰ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of capture1
Example Sentences
While everyone’s seen images of the devastation, no photographers have captured the sadness quite as well as Sunny Mills, a set decorator who lost her home in the fire.
Perhaps nothing captures Trump’s authoritarian agenda better than ICE’s illegal kidnapping and disappearing of hundreds of people or DOGE’s firings or dismissals of some 250,000 federal workers – all without any due process of law.
“We are working to obtain video from The Dome at America’s Center that may have captured what led up to the encounter,” police spokesperson Mitch McCoy said.
Declan Rice captured the mood and flagged up the danger signals in his final message as Arsenal gathered in a huddle before they faced the formidable challenge of Paris St-Germain.
You would be hard put to find traces of the socialist ideology that led to the city's capture in 1975, when it was the capital of South Vietnam.
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