different between captivate vs caption

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capt?v?; synchronically analyzable as captive +? -ate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæpt?ve?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæpt??ve?t/
• Hyphenation: cap?tiv?ate

Verb

captivate (third-person singular simple present captivates, present participle captivating, simple past and past participle captivated)

1. To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
2. (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

     'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.

Related terms

• captivation

Translations

Anagrams

• captative

Latin

Verb

capt?v?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of capt?v?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capti?, from the past participle of capi? (“I take, I seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæp.??n/

Noun

caption (plural captions)

1. (typography) The descriptive heading or title of a document or part thereof
2. A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
3. (cinematography) A piece of text appearing on screen as subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast.
4. (law) The section on an official paper that describes when, where, what was taken, found or executed, and by whom it was authorized.
5. (obsolete, law) A seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel).
   • 1919 Thomas Welburn Hughes. A treatise on criminal law and procedure. The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA. Sec. 557 (p. 378).

     The caption and asportation must be felonious.

Usage notes

In film and video, captions may transcribe or describe all significant dialogue and sound for viewers who cannot hear it, while subtitles translate foreign-language dialogue.

Derived terms

• captionable, captioned, captioner, captioning
• (film) closed caption, closed-caption, closed captions, closed captioned, closed-captioned, close captioned, close-captioned, closed captioning, closed-captioning
• (film) open caption, open-caption, open captions
• (film) real time caption, real-time caption, real time captioning, real-time captioning

Related terms

• captious
• captivate
• captive
• capture

Translations

Verb

caption (third-person singular simple present captions, present participle captioning, simple past and past participle captioned)

1. To add captions to a text or illustration.

   Only once the drawing is done will the letterer caption it.

2. To add captions to a film or broadcast.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pontiac, anticop, paction