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All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the 'bad guys' were in their works, and I wanted to capture that feeling with 'Don't Look Back.'
Jennifer Armentrout

Meaning of "capture" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CAPTURE

From Latin captūra a catching, that which is caught, from capere to take.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CAPTURE

capture  [ˈkæptʃə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAPTURE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Capture is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb capture in English.

WHAT DOES CAPTURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of capture in the English dictionary

The first definition of capture in the dictionary is to take prisoner or gain control over. Other definition of capture is to win control or possession of. Capture is also to succeed in representing or describing.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CAPTURE

PRESENT

Present
I capture
you capture
he/she/it captures
we capture
you capture
they capture
Present continuous
I am capturing
you are capturing
he/she/it is capturing
we are capturing
you are capturing
they are capturing
Present perfect
I have captured
you have captured
he/she/it has captured
we have captured
you have captured
they have captured
Present perfect continuous
I have been capturing
you have been capturing
he/she/it has been capturing
we have been capturing
you have been capturing
they have been capturing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I captured
you captured
he/she/it captured
we captured
you captured
they captured
Past continuous
I was capturing
you were capturing
he/she/it was capturing
we were capturing
you were capturing
they were capturing
Past perfect
I had captured
you had captured
he/she/it had captured
we had captured
you had captured
they had captured
Past perfect continuous
I had been capturing
you had been capturing
he/she/it had been capturing
we had been capturing
you had been capturing
they had been capturing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will capture
you will capture
he/she/it will capture
we will capture
you will capture
they will capture
Future continuous
I will be capturing
you will be capturing
he/she/it will be capturing
we will be capturing
you will be capturing
they will be capturing
Future perfect
I will have captured
you will have captured
he/she/it will have captured
we will have captured
you will have captured
they will have captured
Future perfect continuous
I will have been capturing
you will have been capturing
he/she/it will have been capturing
we will have been capturing
you will have been capturing
they will have been capturing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would capture
you would capture
he/she/it would capture
we would capture
you would capture
they would capture
Conditional continuous
I would be capturing
you would be capturing
he/she/it would be capturing
we would be capturing
you would be capturing
they would be capturing
Conditional perfect
I would have capture
you would have capture
he/she/it would have capture
we would have capture
you would have capture
they would have capture
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been capturing
you would have been capturing
he/she/it would have been capturing
we would have been capturing
you would have been capturing
they would have been capturing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you capture
we let´s capture
you capture
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to capture
Past participle
captured
Present Participle
capturing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CAPTURE


adventure
ədˈvɛntʃə
agriculture
ˈæɡrɪˌkʌltʃə
architecture
ˈɑːkɪˌtɛktʃə
captcha
ˈkæptʃə
culture
ˈkʌltʃə
enrapture
ɪnˈræptʃə
feature
ˈfiːtʃə
furniture
ˈfɜːnɪtʃə
future
ˈfjuːtʃə
insculpture
ɪnˈskʌlptʃə
K-capture
ˈkeɪˌkæptʃə
Lepcha
ˈlɛptʃə
literature
ˈlɪtərɪtʃə
nature
ˈneɪtʃə
picture
ˈpɪktʃə
rapture
ˈræptʃə
recapture
riːˈkæptʃə
rupture
ˈrʌptʃə
scripture
ˈskrɪptʃə
sculpture
ˈskʌlptʃə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAPTURE

captious
captiously
captiousness
captivance
captivate
captivating
captivatingly
captivation
captivator
captivaunce
captive
captive audience
captive breeding
captive market
captive-bred
captivities
captivity
captopril
captor
capturer

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAPTURE

carbon capture
couture
data capture
electron capture
for the foreseeable future
Holy Scripture
in the foreseeable future
in the picture
infrastructure
lecture
liposculpture
manufacture
mature
miniature
motion capture
part of the furniture
prompture
structure
temperature
texture

Synonyms and antonyms of capture in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CAPTURE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «capture» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of capture

Translation of «capture» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAPTURE

Find out the translation of capture to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of capture from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «capture» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

俘获
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

capturar
570 millions of speakers

English

capture
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कब्जा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يَأْسِرُ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

захватить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

capturar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গ্রেপ্তার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

capturer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

menangkap
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

einnehmen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

捕える
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

붙잡다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nangkep
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bắt giữ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிடிப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हस्तगत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ele geçirmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

catturare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

schwytać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

захоплювати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a captura
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αιχμαλωτίζω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vang
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fånga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fange
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of capture

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAPTURE»

The term «capture» is very widely used and occupies the 4.952 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAPTURE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about capture

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10 QUOTES WITH «CAPTURE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word capture.
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Christopher Abbott
Doing a play, you have a little bit more time, obviously. You rehearse for a month before you get up in front of people. It's a totally different energy. With film, TV, you want to try to capture lightning-in-a-bottle moments. I don't try to rehearse as much with that stuff, because you want those sparks of something to come out, if they do.
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Jennifer Armentrout
All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the 'bad guys' were in their works, and I wanted to capture that feeling with 'Don't Look Back.'
3
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
4
Richard Avedon
Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.
5
Milton Avery
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.
6
Julia Bacha
At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.
7
Nigel Barker
Someone who is comfortable, someone who is happy, you see them immediately sit up, stand up and feel better about themselves. If you're able to capture that in a picture, that's the most beautiful picture you can ever take of someone.
8
Quentin Blake
As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
9
Daniel Boulud
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
10
Tim Bray
Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPTURE»

Discover the use of capture in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to capture and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Kill Or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama ...
"Kill or Capture" reveals the two faces of President Obama: the constitutional lawyer-in-chief, and the cold-blooded killer.
Daniel Klaidman, 2012
2
The Capture
When Soren, a barn owl, arrives at St. Aggie's, a school for orphaned owls, he suspects trouble and with his new friend, a clever elf owl named Gylfie, embarks on a perilous journey to save all owls from the danger at St. Aggie's.
Kathryn Lasky, 2010
3
Carbon Capture and Storage
The book will provide a comprehensive, detailed but non-specialist overview of the wide range of technologies involved in carbon dioxide capture and sequestration.
Steve Rackley, 2009
4
Capture
With more than twelve million copies of his books in print, Robert K. Tanenbaum is a true "master of the legal thriller" (Vincent Bugliosi) whose yanked-from-the-headlines adventures keep readers rapt until each breathtaking conclusion.
Robert K. Tanenbaum, 2009
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Finders Keepers?: How the Law of Capture Shaped the World ...
This 'finders keepers' principle has been excoriated by foreign critics as a 'law of the jungle' and identified by American commentators as the root cause of the enormous waste of oil and gas resulting from US production methods in the ...
Terence Daintith, 2010
6
Capture Management: Winning More Business
The Capture Management Life-Cycle provides a comprehensive step-by-step approach to help individuals and companies win more business.
Gregory A. Garrett, Reginald J. Kipke, 2005
7
Real World Nikon Capture NX 2
"Real World Capture NX 2," written by digital photography expert Ben Long, takes photographers behind the scenes to see how this innovative program works.
Ben Long, 2008
8
I Capture the Castle
BACKSTORY: Get to know Dodie Smith, and be inspired to keep your own diary! "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink..." This is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, which tells of her extraordinary family and their crumbling castle home.
Dodie Smith, 2012
9
Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and ...
"In Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and Video Games, industry insider Alberto Menache tells the complete story of motion capture, examining its technical details as well as its growth as an industry.
Alberto Menache, 2000
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Handbook of Capture-Recapture Analysis
But many times, representatives of the two professions do not fully understand one another's roles. This book bridges this gap by helping biologists understand state-of-the-art statistical methods for analyzing capture-recapture data.
Steven C. Amstrup, Trent L. McDonald, Bryan F. J. Manly, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAPTURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term capture is used in the context of the following news items.
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These 2 dot plots beautifully capture the problem with the most …
The forward price/earnings (PE) ratio — the price of the S&P 500 divided by the expected earnings of those S&P 500 companies — is probably ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
2
He uses art to capture slices of Filipino life
He is also known as an artist who is sensitive to what is truly “Filipino” and uses his paint and brush to capture slices of Pinoy life and culture on ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
3
Manchester United closing in on £12million capture of Italy defender …
United are understood to have agreed a fee with Torino and will offer defender Darmian a long-term deal worth around £90,000-a-week. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
Cardiff City confirm loan capture of Newcastle United forward …
Ameobi will spend the season ahead on loan at Cardiff and will link up with Russell Slade and the rest of the squad at their pre-season training ... «WalesOnline, Jul 15»
5
Neighbors capture house fire on video
Two men who live nearby captured video of the fire just as firefighters were arriving. In the video shot by Bernard Warren and Jerrell Harris, the ... «WVTM13, Jul 15»
6
Official: Juventus Capture Striker Simone Zaza
The Bianconeri have splashed out €18m to capture Zaza, who has put pen to paper on a five-year contract with the Italian champions. Juventus ... «Inside Futbol, Jul 15»
7
Man driving stolen Bentley chased into Pasadena, evades capture
PASADENA >> A man suspected of stealing a Bentley was missing Monday evening after police called off a containment search for the suspect ... «The Pasadena Star-News, Jul 15»
8
Manchester City Set to Complete Sterling Capture By End of the Week
The Daily Star report that Manchester City bosses are confident of finally securing the signing of Liverpool want-away youngster Raheem ... «90min, Jul 15»
9
Barcelona capture Turkey captain Arda Turan
Barcelona have signed Turkey captain Arda Turan on a five-year contract from Atletico Madrid for an initial fee of €34million. The 28-year-old ... «RTE.ie, Jul 15»
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On the 7/7 anniversary, 13 facts that capture the horror of the …
1. A total of 56 people died in the attacks: 52 civilians and the four bombers. Over 700 people were injured. 2. The terrorist attacks were the ... «Metro, Jul 15»

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