different between capture vs choose

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French capture (noun), from Latin capt?ra.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæp.t???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæp.t???/
• Rhymes: -æpt??(?)

Noun

capture (countable and uncountable, plural captures)

1. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.

   • even with regard to captures made at sea

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.

Translations

Verb

capture (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.
2. (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
3. (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
4. (transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
   • 1954, Fred Reinfeld, How to Be a Winner at Chess, page 63, Hanover House (Garden City, NY)

     How deeply ingrained capturing is in the mind of a chess master can be seen from this story.

Translations

Derived terms

• capture the flag
• piscicapture
• recapture
• regulatory capture
• screen capture
• uncapture

Related terms

• captivate
• captive
• captivity
• caption

See also

• take
• arrest
• apprehend
• take over
• snapshot

Anagrams

• cuprate, uptrace

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capt?ra (“catching, capture”), from captus, perfect passive participle of capi? (“capture, seize, take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap.ty?/

Noun

capture f (plural captures)

1. capture
2. a catch, a take

Derived terms

• capture d'écran
• capturer

Further reading

• “capture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• aperçut, aperçût
• capteur
• percuta

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kap?tu?.re/, [käp?t?u???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kap?tu.re/, [k?p?t?u???]

Participle

capt?re

1. vocative masculine singular of capt?rus

Portuguese

Verb

capture

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of capturar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of capturar
3. first-person singular imperative of capturar
4. third-person singular imperative of capturar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kab?tu?e/, [ka???t?u.?e]

Verb

capture

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of capturar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of capturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of capturar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of capturar.

English

Alternative forms

• chuse (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English chosen, chesen, from Old English ??osan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusan? (“to taste, choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *?éwseti, from *?ews- (“to taste, try”).

Cognate with Scots chose, chese (“to choose”), French choisir (“to choose”), North Frisian kese (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), archaic and partially obsolete German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten (via ‘to charm, allure’ and ‘to enchant’)”), Norwegian kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm, allure, enchant”), Icelandic kjósa (“to choose, vote, elect”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (kiusan, “to test”), Latin gust? (“I taste, sample”), Ancient Greek ???? (geú?, “to feed”), Sanskrit ????? (jó?ati, “to like, enjoy”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: cho?oz, IPA^(key): /t??u?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Homophone: chews

Verb

choose (third-person singular simple present chooses, present participle choosing, simple past chose or (nonstandard) choosed, past participle chosen or (nonstandard) choosed or (now colloquial) chose)

1. To pick; to make the choice of; to select.

   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

2. To elect.

3. To decide to act in a certain way.

4. To wish; to desire; to prefer.
   • 2016, Justin Deschamps:

   • The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Conjugation

Related terms

• choice
• choosey
• chosen

Translations

Conjunction

choose

1. (mathematics) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.

   The number of distinct subsets of size k from a set of size n is ${\displaystyle {\tbinom {n}{k}}}$ or "n choose k".

See also

• Binomial coefficient on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English chose, chos, chooce, from chosen (“to choose”). Cognate with Scots chose (“choosing, choice, selection”).

Noun

choose (plural chooses)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) The act of choosing; selection.
2. (dialectal or obsolete) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
3. (dialectal or obsolete) Scope for choice.

References

• choose in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• choose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Cohoes, cohoes, ooches