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Something that may help you get the picture?
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caption
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "taking, seizure," from Old French capcion "arrest, capture, imprisonment," or directly from Latin captionem (nominative capito ) "a catching, seizing, holding, taking," noun of action from past participle stem of capere "to take" (see capable ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context typography English) The descriptive heading or title of a document or part therof 2 A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc. 3 (context cinematography English) A piece of text appearing ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. taking exception; especially an quibble based on a captious argument; "a mere caption unworthy of a reply" translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen [syn: subtitle ] brief description accompanying ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Caption was a term used (especially in Scotland), for arrest or apprehension. Caption also has an old legal use, to signify the part of an indictment, etc., which shows where, when and by what authority it is taken, found or executed; so its opening or ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caption \Cap"tion\, n. [L. captio, fr. caper to take. In senses 3 and 4, perhaps confounded in meaning with L. caput a head. See Capacious .] A caviling; a sophism. [Obs.] This doctrine is for caption and contradiction. --Bacon. The act of taking or arresting ...
Usage examples of caption.
On the screen Wolf Blitzer was silently mouthing the latest news from Iraq as closed captioning crawled across his tie.
Picture Caption: For their success, our dogs, always out in front on dangerous patrols, paid a terrible price for the safety of the men they led.
Under this last photo was the caption: Detective Third Grade William Dougherty studies murder weapon for clues.
The Atlanta Falcons and the Westside Jaycees print trading cards of their teams, with safety tips as captions.
As he thumbed through the pages, checking the captioned photographs, he felt as though he was facing an enemy for the first time.
They think the pictures and captions will draw more attention to their ads.
There was a printed caption near where a stamp could be placed: Odalisques with great beauty and high intelligence were carefully trained to be concubines.
And a picture of the affair must appear in The Bellman, with a caption which would make it clear that Mr Shillito was retiring of his own volition.
Below the caption was a photograph of Sir Edward Marshall Hall, defence lawyer for someone called Madame Marie-Marguerite Fahhim, a high-society Parisian beauty accused of shooting her Egyptian husband, Prince Ali Kamel Fahhim Bey, dead in 1923.
North read the caption on the postcard: Six men, in battle dress, straining to raise an American flag atop an extinct volcano on a tiny atoll in the Pacific on February 23, 1945.
The caption saud he was dead--killed in action while on assignment for the magazine.
Once, the British magazine Picture Post, now defunct, had run a photograph of Capa, and the headline above the caption had read, The Greatest War Photographer in the World.
He filed the records in the order they were received, providing a caption and summary of each.
It was a splendid likeness, and the fact that he was described in the caption as Professor MacElroy did nothing to diminish the prestige which his pupils accorded him as a result of this publicity.
You know, Nick, I can write the captions, I'm used to doing that, but what this book needs is some really great text up front.