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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
capture
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be captured/caught on video (=recorded on video)
▪ The crime was captured on video.
capture the moment (=to take a picture, describe something etc that will remind you of a particular time)
▪ They captured the moment on film.
evaded capture
▪ So far he has evaded capture.
reflect/capture sb's mood (=show what someone is feeling)
▪ His comments reflected the national mood.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ This survey is an attempt to capture much more detailed and precise data.
▪ Every attempt to capture an image on film or on disk will ultimately fall short.
▪ An attempt to capture as much sound from a piano as possible.
▪ Figure 7.2 is an attempt to capture the complexity involved.
▪ He calculated that the Viet Minh would be destroyed in any attempt to capture his position.
attention
▪ The lichen-crusted walls bedecked with city grime capture my attention time and time again.
▪ His 70 homers that season captured the attention of even non-baseball fans.
▪ But why chose this as a means of capturing the hearer's attention?
▪ They will need to be especially mindful of her motivations and create situations that are charged enough to capture her attention.
▪ The print itself is featureless and does nothing visually to capture the attention or involve the emotions.
▪ It is the only horse race that captures the attention of the general public, much like motor sports' Indianapolis 500.
▪ In fact, the newsreader did succeed in capturing my attention.
▪ The next item particularly captures Michael's attention.
camera
▪ Since then, cameras have captured her in a variety of moods, phases, faces.
▪ Given the constraints of magazine as medium, View Camera none the less captures the spirit, if not the essence.
▪ You're simply using your eye and camera to capture a moment.
▪ Quite the opposite: Why try to copy naturalistic virtues that the camera can capture more tellingly?
▪ Gimmelmann wished he had brought his camera to have captured the transformation.
▪ We will also require a slide scanning attachment to the camera capturing images for our image databases.
▪ Central's cameras have also captured a good deal of real-life drama thanks to the Cook Report.
▪ A car park security camera captured the tail end of the attack in the centre of Swindon.
essence
▪ Nevertheless, it captures the essence of the game very well.
▪ A few simple brushstrokes have captured the essence of her inextinguishable hope for a better future.
▪ It is difficult to capture the essence of why a trip is enjoyable.
▪ We want to capture the essence of his great trio, but with our own arrangements and in our own way.
▪ To the environmentally concerned, however, the origin and extraction method for capturing an essence may be of vital importance.
▪ They did capture the essence of what we were looking for: the emotional aspect of growing up with the virus.
▪ Anyone acquainted with ancient ikons will recognise how acutely she has captured their essence.
▪ It was mind-boggling how quickly he captured the essence of our business and started making improvements.
film
▪ We also captured some graphic film of the screaming kids.
▪ My father captures all this on film.
▪ A week ago the robbers were captured on film during another raid.
▪ Every attempt to capture an image on film or on disk will ultimately fall short.
▪ The Football Association might now look into the incident, which is captured on film.
▪ The idea was to capture on film how the countryside was changing as the nation underwent great social and economic change.
▪ You capture light on a film.
headline
▪ Teenager Lee Ellison captured the headlines, and attracted League scouts to Feethams, with his goal scoring earlier in the season.
▪ Although Patriots capture headlines and boast of a massive underground movement, they are so amorphous that counting them is guesswork.
▪ But now that confronting Enron has captured the necessary headlines, the deal is quietly being put back together again.
heart
▪ Gossip has it that Madonna has also captured Beatty's heart.
▪ They remember history by evoking magical names from the past, players who captured the hearts of the nation.
▪ If only he hadn't captured her heart.
image
▪ Nikon 2 uses multiple-threads so you can capture images even though the program is busy processing other captured images.
▪ But a thing I found was that kept wanting to freeze the frame: to capture single images that summed everything up.
▪ Frequently used in discussions about scanners as a measure of their ability to capture halftone images.
▪ Every attempt to capture an image on film or on disk will ultimately fall short.
▪ Most people would also consider a scanner so that they can capture images and documents.
▪ Cameras have already captured the image.
▪ Using this method, the input device is an optical scanner, which captures the image as a pixel representation.
▪ Their aim was to capture high-resolution images of the asteroid on the way down.
imagination
▪ Even the constitutional principle itself hardly captured the popular imagination.
▪ But it captures their imagination, and they want to buy it.
▪ Not long afterwards the Dams Raid took place, and this did hit the headlines and captured the imagination of the public.
▪ But neither has captured the imagination of the electorate.
▪ Like Lakoff's book about women and language, it captured the imagination of feminists both inside and outside the academy.
▪ Small enterprises could capture the imaginations and mobilize the energies of young men.
▪ For the cartoonists, it's a daily battle against time, to create work that captures the imagination.
▪ The exhibition reveals Andr Citro n's vivid creativity and ability to capture the public's imagination.
interest
▪ This has captured the public interest.
▪ Where Ocre captures our interest is in the expression of new experiences conveyed by many of its poems.
▪ The home pack relates to domestic environmental issues and has been designed to capture the interest of the whole family.
▪ Britten was particularly revered for his vocal scores for children, which captured their imagination and interest without condescension.
▪ He made his lecture demonstrations as lively as possible in order to capture the interest of the undergraduates.
market
▪ Athens is now capturing the western market from Corinth.
▪ Those factors will prompt first one, then several dealers, to lower prices to capture market share from competitors.
▪ How do we go about capturing greater market share against sleepy competitors?
mood
▪ This is ideal for note-taking or capturing the mood of a shot in the accompanying audio.
▪ Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, captures this mood.
▪ I am talking about phrases which speak to the country by capturing its mood or its hopes.
▪ The soundtrack captures the mood of the film with some macho exciting music combined with some mellow saddle-up-and-ride-into-the sunset stuff.
▪ No one has captured the moods of the sea better than Claude Debussy in his symphonic sketches, La Mer.
▪ But Michael Foot was a formidable orator and on occasions he could coin a phrase which captured the mood perfectly.
percent
▪ In January 1989, the party captured a shocking 7.5 percent of the vote in West Berlin's municipal elections.
▪ He captured less than 5 percent of the vote.
▪ Those three brands have captured 8 percent of the youth market.
▪ In simultaneous elections to the Vienna city council, it also captured 28 percent of the vote, a record.
▪ It captured 15 percent of the viewing audience and finished third behind network comedies.
▪ Perot captured 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992&038;.
▪ The two companies say Imax has captured up to 90 percent of the market.
seat
▪ Republicans captured two open Senate seats that had been held by Democrats.
▪ Mike Enzi captured the seat vacated by Alan Simpson.
share
▪ Thomas Cook has introduced a £1 deposit offer to try to capture a greater share of early summer holiday sales.
▪ Those factors will prompt first one, then several dealers, to lower prices to capture market share from competitors.
▪ How do we go about capturing greater market share against sleepy competitors?
spirit
▪ The photograph that best captures the spirit of this book was taken in 1963 at Wembley.
▪ Seven-year-old Amy Collard captured the spirit of many who watched the space shuttle Challenger disintegrate in the Florida sky.
▪ This developer's vision and commitment has captured the spirit of the Andalucian craft tradition.
▪ Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams captures the spirit of the settlement movement.
▪ Horatio Alger captured this spirit in hundreds of stories.
▪ Given the constraints of magazine as medium, View Camera none the less captures the spirit, if not the essence.
▪ Rather, he was a young and fashionable man who was able to capture the spirit of the dawning era.
title
▪ Rita was on target to capture the singles title when a recurring leg injury regrettably ended her bid.
▪ At nearly thirty-six years old he captured his fifth Open title, just one short of Harry Vardon's record.
▪ Allison's big day was in 1969, a year after City captured the title.
town
▪ Edward captured the town and massacred its inhabitants.
▪ This force, unlike its predecessors, captured sizeable towns, and in reaching Wilton and Wallingford penetrated a considerable distance inland.
▪ It revived concern over the harsh army round-ups in captured towns and villages.
■ VERB
fail
▪ Increasingly, the core-periphery model fails to capture the diversity, in terms of economic performance, of both the periphery and the core.
▪ No matter how many times I ran it through it failed to capture more than one egg in twenty.
▪ The liberal pluralist model of complex interdependence is useful, but fails to capture the dynamism of integration as a process.
▪ Neither the successful actors nor the state intervene to protect those who fail to capture many resources.
▪ And it is such visions that Pires' pretty, but generic, performances fail to capture.
kill
▪ Everyone who was in the union was either killed or captured.
▪ Three Northerners were killed, three Southerners captured.
try
▪ Oliver Cromwell came to Stamford in 1643, following the retreat of the Cavalier army who had tried to capture Peterborough.
▪ A photographer tried to capture her in the fading sunlight.
▪ Rebels from Mabanda tried to capture Vugizo.
▪ Can you look again, and try to capture all the colors of that sky?
▪ They're trying to capture a loving relationship, but you can't do it like that.
▪ Meanwhile, local amateur photographers are having a field day trying to capture the agricultural cloth of gold on film.
▪ I would spend all my time trying to capture this place on paper.
▪ On four continents scientists have consumed the equivalent of billions of dollars trying to capture the dream.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
capture/catch sb's imagination
▪ The story of a boy raised by monkeys has caught the imagination of millions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cole was captured after his plane was shot down outside Hanoi.
▪ Cuba captured the first gold medal of the Olympic Games.
▪ Many dolphins are accidentally captured in the nets of tuna fishermen.
▪ Mayor Agnos captured 28.7% of the vote.
▪ Rebels wounded 1087 soldiers and captured 417.
▪ The Super Bowl always captures a large audience.
▪ The town of Moulineuf was captured after a siege lasting ten days.
▪ The TV camera captured Dad waving as he left the airplane.
▪ They've captured twenty enemy soldiers.
▪ Wilson's autobiography neatly captures the atmosphere of the late 19th century.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At twenty, he went to war against Perugia, where he was captured and imprisoned.
▪ Cameras have already captured the image.
▪ In one battle, sources say, the rebels captured 100 tons of ammunition.
▪ Polay had been captured before, in 1989, but had escaped in July 1990.
▪ She had captured his father by promising an elegant uncluttered lifestyle very different from the neglected unhappy home he had come from.
▪ This gives them overlapping fields of view and the true stereo vision that they need to capture their prey.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
evade
▪ Rámirez-Sánchez, tried inabsentia, had evaded capture since the murders in Paris on June 27, 1975.
▪ Government officials have been eager to learn exactly when Hanssen was actively spying and how he evaded capture for so long.
▪ It evades capture by lodging itself inside the very muscles of the pursuer.
▪ He went to Gouesnou during a recent visit to meet friends who helped him to evade capture for a time.
lead
▪ Security along the frontier would be strengthened and information likely to lead to the capture of criminals and deserters would be exchanged.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The government has offered $500,000 for information leading to Sanchez' capture.
▪ They are offering a reward for information leading to his capture.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any disciplinary action taken for failing to follow procedure would be eclipsed by the success of his capture.
▪ Both met defeat and one suffered capture, thus becoming, in a very real sense, a national liability.
▪ Particularly significant was his capture of the Republican vote by 69 %-26 % over McCain.
▪ Rendezvous and capture were expected early Thursday.
▪ The government's capture of Toro airstrip near Tabanya has put the displaced almost beyond the reach of help.
▪ Yet the significance for the ancient Israelites of the capture of the ark went beyond the scope of such attachments.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capture

Capture \Cap"ture\, n. [L. capture, fr. caper to take: cf. F. capture. See Caitiff, and cf. aptive.]

  1. 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.

    Even with regard to captures made at sea.
    --Bluckstone.

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

  3. The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey.

    Syn: Seizure; apprehension; arrest; detention.

Capture

Capture \Cap"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Captured; p. pr. & vb. n. Capturing.]

  1. To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.

  2. to record or make a lasting representation of (sound or images); as, to capture an event on videotape; the artist captured the expression of grief on his face.

  3. (Games) to take control of, or remove from play; as, to capture a piece in chess.

  4. to exert a strong psychological influence on; as, to capture the heart of a maiden; to capture the attention of the nation.

  5. (Computers) to record (data) in a computer-readable form; as, to capture a transaction in a database.

    Her heart is like some fortress that has been captured.
    --W. Ivring. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
capture

1540s, from Middle French capture "a taking," from Latin captura "a taking" (especially of animals), from captus (see captive).

capture

1795, from capture (n.); in chess, checkers, etc., 1820. Related: Captured; capturing. Earlier verb in this sense was captive (early 15c.).

Wiktionary
capture

n. 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 (context computing English) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string. vb. 1 To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem. 2 To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation. 3 To reproduce convincingly. 4 To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

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WordNet
capture

  1. n. the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property [syn: gaining control, seizure]

  2. a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field

  3. any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle

  4. the act of taking of a person by force [syn: seizure]

  5. the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board

capture

  1. v. succeed in representing or expressing something intangible; "capture the essence of Spring"; "capture an idea"

  2. attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: enamour, trance, catch, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant]

  3. succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase; "We finally got the suspect"; "Did you catch the thief?" [syn: get, catch]

  4. bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit; "This nucleus has captured the slow-moving neutrons"; "The star captured a comet"

  5. take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"; "The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle" [syn: appropriate, seize, conquer]

  6. capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping; "I caught a rabbit in the trap toady" [syn: catch]

Wikipedia
Capture

Capture may refer to:

  • Asteroid capture, a phenomenon in which an asteroid enters a stable orbit around another body
  • "Capture" a song by Simon Townshend
  • 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
  • Electron capture, another 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
Capture (TV series)

Capture is an American reality competition television series on The CW that is hosted by Luke Tipple and premiered on July 30, 2013.

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Usage examples of "capture".

It spoke of Lauries sorrow at his passing, but it ended on a major chord, a note of triumph, then a silly little coda that made all who knew Roald laugh, for it somehow captured his raffish nature.

It was to the effect that an Abenaki Indian had just come over land from Acadia, with news that some of his tribe had captured an English woman near Portsmouth, who told them that a great fleet had sailed from Boston to attack Quebec.

It was too far back to Aberdeen to expect to be able to ride for assistance, enough assistance that the raiders, girl and all, might be captured without bloodshed.

About the year 1418 the Acolhuans were attacked by a kindred race, the Tepanecs, who, after a desperate struggle, captured their city, killed their monarch, and subjugated their kingdom.

Deutsch, as the only Cobra trainee from Adirondack, had obvious status as native authority on one of the two worlds the Trofts had captured.

On the other hand, the British captured some forts on the Mosquito shore from the Spaniards, and took Aera, on the coast of Africa, from the Dutch.

DSS agents would take the lead in debriefing him and attempting to capture Yousef.

A CHILLING WARNING Less than an hour after his capture, Ramzi Yousef was seated across a table from FBI Agents Garrett and Horton and DSS Agent Bill Miller.

Severus, ranged ahead and far to the sides to occupy prominent positions along the route and capture any Alemanni scouts they might encounter.

His work was finished in 1067, some thirteen years after Ibn Yasin, the Almoravid ruler of North Africa, had marched southward to invade those lands and had captured Aoudaghast, a tributary city of Ghana.

In 1585 the Moroccan sultan, Mulay Ahmed el-Mansur, seized from Songhay the great salt deposits of Taghaza, and took thereby the first step toward the sources of Sudanese gold which Moroccans believed they could capture just as the Almoravids long before them had believed.

Before relating that which I have to say about the Queen and her precautions against myself, I would not omit certain curious incidents during the journey that the King caused us to take in Alsatia and Flanders, when he captured Maestricht and Courtrai.

American from one of the aircraft downed yesterday who is alive, and if he is rescued or captured by a unit other than the Amn AlKhass, he could tell everything about your plan to defect.

However, to return in thought to the past, of which our present is the continuation: the old Biblical ideal of offering a holocaust to Yahweh by massacring every living thing in a captured town or city was but the Hebrew version of a custom general to the early Semites: the Moabites, the Amorites, the Assyrians, and all.

Biblical ideal of offering a holocaust to Yahweh by massacring every living thing in a captured town or city was but the Hebrew version of a custom general to the early Semites: the Moabites, the Amorites, the Assyrians, and all.