Definição de 'capture'

Frequência da palavra

capture

(kæptʃəʳ )

Formas da palavra:3rd person singular present tense captures , present participle capturing , past tense, past participle captured

1. verbo

If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.

The guerrillas shot down one aeroplane and captured the pilot. [VERB noun]

The whole town celebrated when two tanks were captured. [VERB noun]

King Arthur himself captures the beast and cuts off its head. [VERB noun]

The United States captured Puerto Rico from the Spaniards in 1898. [VERB noun + from]

...the murders of fifteen thousand captured Polish soldiers. [VERB-ed]

Capture is also a noun.

...the final battles which led to the army's capture of the town. [+ of]

The shooting happened while the man was trying to evade capture by the security forces. [+ by]

Sinônimos:encapsulate, sum up, summarize, put in a nutshell Mais sinônimos de capture

2. verbo [no cont]

If something or someone captures a particular quality, feeling, or atmosphere, they represent or express it successfully.

The mood was captured by a cartoon in the New York Post. [be VERB-ed + by]

3. verbo

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. [VERB noun]

...the issue that has captured the imagination of nearly the whole nation. [VERB noun]

...one man's undying love for the woman who captured his heart. [VERB noun]

Sinônimos:engage, fascinate, absorb, preoccupy Mais sinônimos de capture

4. verbo

If an event is captured in a photograph or on film, it is photographed or filmed.

The incident was captured on video. [be V-ed + on/in]

The images were captured by TV crews filming outside the base. [be VERB-ed]

...photographers who captured the traumatic scene. [VERB noun]

[Also V n + on/in]

5. verbo

If you capture something that you are trying to obtain in competition with other people, you succeed in obtaining it.

The company aims to capture more sales at a time of significant challenges in the supermarket sector. [VERB noun]

The Socialist candidate has captured eighty-five per cent of the vote in the three-way presidential race. [VERB noun]

Sinônimos:invade, take over, occupy, seize Mais sinônimos de capture

Mais sinônimos de capture

Video: pronunciation of 'capture'

Frequência da palavra

capture in American

(ˈkæptʃər ; kapˈchər)

substantivo

a taking or being taken by force, surprise, or skill, as enemy troops, an opponent's piece in chess, etc.

that which is thus taken or seized; specif., a prize or booty in war

the absorption of a particle by an atomic nucleus; esp., the absorption of a neutron or an orbital electron that often results in the immediate emission of radiation

verbo transitivoFormas da palavra:ˈcaptured or ˈcapturing

to take or seize by force, surprise, or skill

to represent (something transient, immaterial, etc.) in more or less permanent form

to capture her charm on canvas

to effect the capture of (a subatomic particle)

SIMILAR WORDS: catch

Origem da palavra capture

Fr < L captura < captus: see captive

Frequência da palavra

capture in British

(ˈkæptʃə )

verbo (transitive)

to take prisoner or gain control over

to capture an enemy

to capture a town

(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

4. physics

(of an atom, molecule, ion, or nucleus) to acquire (an additional particle)

to insert or transfer (data) into a computer

substantivo

the act of taking by force; seizure

the person or thing captured; booty

8. physics

a process by which an atom, molecule, ion, or nucleus acquires an additional particle

9. Also called: piracy geography

the process by which the headwaters of one river are diverted into another through erosion caused by the second river's tributaries

10.

the act or process of inserting or transferring data into a computer

Formas derivadas

capturer (ˈcapturer)

substantivo

Origem da palavra capture

C16: from Latin captūra a catching, that which is caught, from capere to take

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