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capture

Pronunciation: /ˈkæp.(t)ʃəː/

The English word “capture” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
  2. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
  3. Something that has been captured; a captive.
  4. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
  5. A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.

verb

  1. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
  2. To take hold of.
  3. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
  4. To reproduce convincingly.
  5. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French capture (noun), from Latin captūra. Displaced native Old English fenġ (noun) and ġefōn (verb).

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