ALL meanings of capture
cap·ture
C c - verb capture If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war. 3
- verb capture Capture is also a noun. 3
- verb capture If something or someone captures a particular quality, feeling, or atmosphere, they represent or express it successfully. 3
- verb capture 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. 3
- verb capture If an event is captured in a photograph or on film, it is photographed or filmed. 3
- verb capture If you capture something that you are trying to obtain in competition with other people, you succeed in obtaining it. 3
- verb capture to take prisoner or gain control over 3
- verb capture (in a game or contest) to win control or possession of 3
- verb capture to succeed in representing or describing (something elusive) 3
- verb capture (of an atom, molecule, ion, or nucleus) to acquire (an additional particle) 3
- verb capture to insert or transfer (data) into a computer 3
- noun capture the act of taking by force; seizure 3
- noun capture the person or thing captured; booty 3
- noun capture a process by which an atom, molecule, ion, or nucleus acquires an additional particle 3
- noun capture the process by which the headwaters of one river are diverted into another through erosion caused by the second river's tributaries 3
- noun capture the act or process of inserting or transferring data into a computer 3
- noun capture a taking or being taken by force, surprise, or skill, as enemy troops, an opponent's piece in chess, etc. 3
- noun capture that which is thus taken or seized; specif., a prize or booty in war 3
- noun capture 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 3
- verb transitive capture to take or seize by force, surprise, or skill 3
- verb transitive capture to represent (something transient, immaterial, etc.) in more or less permanent form 3
- verb transitive capture to effect the capture of (a subatomic particle) 3
- noun capture The action of capturing or of being captured. 1
- verb with object capture to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar. 1
- verb with object capture to gain control of or exert influence over: an ad that captured our attention; a TV show that captured 30% of the prime-time audience. 1
- verb with object capture to take possession of, as in a game or contest: to capture a pawn in chess. 1
- verb with object capture to represent or record in lasting form: The movie succeeded in capturing the atmosphere of Berlin in the 1930s. 1
- verb with object capture Computers. to enter (data) into a computer for processing or storage. to record (data) in preparation for such entry. 1
- noun capture the act of capturing. 1
- noun capture the thing or person captured. 1
- noun capture Physics. the process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle. 1
- noun capture Crystallography. substitution in a crystal lattice of a trace element for an element of lower valence. 1
- transitive verb capture catch and hold 1
- noun capture act of capturing 1
- noun capture photography: quality of picture 1
- transitive verb capture record an image 1
- transitive verb capture chess: take a piece 1
- transitive verb capture computing: store data 1
- transitive verb capture encapsulate the essence of sth 1
- noun capture An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem. 0
- noun capture The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction. 0
- noun capture Something that has been captured; a captive. 0
- noun capture (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string. 0
- verb capture To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem. 0
- verb capture To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation. 0
- verb capture To reproduce convincingly. 0
- verb capture To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers). 0