different between capture vs enclosure

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

• inclosure (was as common as or more common until the early 1800s; now uncommon)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French enclosure.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?klo????/, /?n?klo????/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?kl????/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?n?kl????/
• Hyphenation: en?clo?sure

Noun

enclosure (countable and uncountable, plural enclosures)

1. (countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.

   There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.

2. (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.

   The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.

3. (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.

   He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.

   The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.

   The winning horse was first into the unsaddling enclosure.
4. (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.

   The enclosure of public land is against the law.

   The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.

   At first, untrained horses resist enclosure.

5. (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.

   Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure.

6. (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

Usage notes

• For more on the spelling of this word, see enclose.

Translations

Anagrams

• corneules, encolures

Old French

Alternative forms

• encloseure

Etymology

enclos-, stem of enclore +? -ure.

Noun

enclosure f (oblique plural enclosures, nominative singular enclosure, nominative plural enclosures)

1. enclosure (act of enclosing something)
2. enclosure (enclosed area)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (encloseure)
• enclosure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub