Definition of "capture"

capture

/ˈkæp.ʃɚ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural captures
1. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
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  even with regard to captures made at sea
  1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press
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. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
5. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
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  After the match […] , the text matched within the named capture is available via the Match object's Groups(name) property.
  2006, Jeffrey Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions, page 409
verb
third-person singular simple present captures, present participle capturing, simple past and past participle captured
1. (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
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  Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
  2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian‎
  […] I said it was because Tillerson hadn't filled the subordinate ranks with appointees who would advance the Administration's policies and that he had, in effect, been captured by the careerists.
  2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, page 29
  Being so inflexible, the railway was easy prey to road competition, and the arrival of unregulated lorry transport from farm fields to town centres quickly captured all locally generated business.
  2020 November 18, Howard Johnston, “The missing 'Lincs' and the sole survivor”, in Rail, page 58
2. (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
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  Ultimately, whether you want to shoot digital or film, the object is to give the client what they want and to capture the image you want, the way you want it to look.
  2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, page 86
3. (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
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  Winterhalter was gifted at capturing the luxurious fabrics and hairstyles of female royalty and he was commissioned to paint portraits of the continental Empresses Eugénie of France and Elizabeth of Austria.
  2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, page 86
4. (transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
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  How deeply ingrained capturing is in the mind of a chess master can be seen from this story.
  1954, Fred Reinfeld, How to Be a Winner at Chess, Garden City, NY: Hanover House, page 63

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