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capture
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)
- An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
- even with regard to captures made at sea
- The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
- Something that has been captured; a captive.
- The recording or storage of something for later playback.
- (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)
- (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
- (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
- (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.
- 1954, Fred Reinfeld, How to Be a Winner at Chess, page 63, Hanover House (Garden City, NY)
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)
- capture
- 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
- vocative masculine singular of capt?rus
Portuguese
Verb
capture
- first-person singular present subjunctive of capturar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of capturar
- first-person singular imperative of capturar
- third-person singular imperative of capturar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kab?tu?e/, [ka???t?u.?e]
Verb
capture
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of capturar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of capturar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of capturar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of capturar.
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purchase
English
Etymology
From Middle English purchasen, from Anglo-Norman purchacer (“seek to obtain”) from pur- (from Latin pro-) + chac(i)er (“to chase, pursue”). Compare Old French porchacier (“to follow, to chase”), which has given French pourchasser (“to chase without relent”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?t??s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??t??s/
- Hyphenation: pur?chase
Noun
purchase (countable and uncountable, plural purchases)
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
- That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
- I'll […] get meat to save thee, / Or lose my life i’ th’ purchase.
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- 1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords
- Suppose a freehold house to be worth 20 years’ purchase […]
- 1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords
- (uncountable, also figuratively) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- Synonyms: contact, grip, hold
- The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
- (rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- Synonyms: foothold, support
- (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
Derived terms
- purchase order
- repurchase
Translations
Verb
purchase (third-person singular simple present purchases, present participle purchasing, simple past and past participle purchased)
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- that loves the thing he cannot purchase
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- to purchase favor with flattery
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
- 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
Synonyms
- (buy): procure
Derived terms
- purchasable
- purchasing agent
- purchasing power
Translations
Anagrams
- search up
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