Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆
Language:
Translation and analysis of words by ChatGPT artificial intelligence
On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:
- how the word is used
- frequency of use
- it is used more often in oral or written speech
- word translation options
- usage examples (several phrases with translation)
- etymology
What (who) is Capture - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Capture streaming video; Capture (disambiguation)
Capture
·noun The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey.
II. Capture ·noun The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
III. Capture ·vt To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.
IV. Capture ·noun The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.
capture
I. n.
1.
Seizure, arrest, apprehension, catching, catch, taking captive, making prisoner.
2.
Prize.
II. v. a.
Seize, catch, apprehend, arrest, take by force, take possession of, make prisoner.
capture
(captures, capturing, captured)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
The guerrillas shot down one aeroplane and captured the pilot...
The Russians now appear ready to capture more territory from the Chechens.
...the murders of fifteen thousand captured Polish soldiers.
VERB: V n, V n from n, V-ed
•
Capture is also a noun.
...the final battles which led to the army's capture of the town...
The shooting happened while the man was trying to evade capture by the security forces.
N-UNCOUNT: oft with poss
2.
If something or someone captures a particular quality, feeling, or atmosphere, they represent or express it successfully.
Their mood was captured by one who said, 'Students here don't know or care about campus issues.'
= encapsulate
VERB: no cont, V n
3.
If something captures your attention or imagination, you begin to be interested or excited by it. If someone or something captures your heart, you begin to love them or like them very much.
...the great names of the Tory party who usually capture the historian's attention.
...one man's undying love for the woman who captured his heart.
VERB: V n, V n
4.
If an event is captured in a photograph or on film, it is photographed or filmed.
The incident was captured on videotape...
The images were captured by TV crews filming outside the base.
...photographers who captured the traumatic scene.
VERB: be V-ed on/in n, be V-ed, V n, also V n on/in n
5.
If you capture something that you are trying to obtain in competition with other people, you succeed in obtaining it.
In 1987, McDonald's captured 19 percent of all fast-food sales...
= win, secure
VERB: V n
Wikipedia
Capture
Capture may refer to:
- Asteroid capture, a phenomenon in which an asteroid enters a stable orbit around another body
- Capture, a software for lighting design, documentation and visualisation
- "Capture" a song by Simon Townshend
- Capture (band), an Australian electronicore band previously known as Capture the Crown
- Capture (chess), to remove the opponent's piece from the board by taking it with one's own piece
- Capture effect, a phenomenon in which only the stronger of two signals near the same FM frequency will be demodulated
- Capture fishery, a wild fishery in which the aquatic life is not controlled and needs to be captured or fished
- Capture (TV series), a reality show
- The Capture (TV series), UK drama series
- Electron capture, a nuclear reaction
- Motion capture, the process of recording movement and translating that movement onto a digital model
- Neutron capture, a nuclear reaction
- Regulatory capture, situations in which a government agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of other interests
- Renault Captur, automobile model
- Rule of capture, common law that determines ownership of captured natural resources including groundwater, oil, gas and game animals
- Schematic capture, a step in electronic design automation at which the electronic schematic is created by a designer
- Capture CIS, a software tool used for circuit schematic capture
- Screen capture (disambiguation), an image taken by the computer to record the visible items
- Stream capture, a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river is diverted from its own bed
- Video capture, the process of converting an analog video signal to digital form
Examples of use of Capture
1. Sharks have teeth to capture their prey and trees have leaves to capture sunlight.
2. Carbon Capture & Storage facilities need huge investments.
3. Industry consultation on carbon capture technology.
4. The Bush administration has been trying to capture or kill bin Laden since the Sept. 11 attacks. If we knew, I think we‘d kill or capture him.
5. Chinese plants that were already capture ready would be far cheaper to convert to carbon capture and be most likely to attract such funding.