different between capture vs steal

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

Etymology

From Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan, from Proto-Germanic *stelan? (compare West Frisian stelle, Low German stehlen, Dutch stelen, German stehlen, Danish stjæle, Swedish stjäla,Norwegian stjele); see below for more.

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?l, IPA^(key): /sti?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Homophones: steel, stele

Verb

steal (third-person singular simple present steals, present participle stealing, simple past stole, past participle stolen or (nonstandard, colloquial) stole)

1. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
   • "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."

2. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.

3. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

   • Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind too often from its steady pursuit of any subject.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Great Place

     Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, […] and do not think to steal it.

4. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.

5. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
6. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Ch.1:

     "Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.
7. (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
8. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.

   • They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.
9. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
10. (sports, transitive) To dispossess
11. (informal, transitive) To borrow for a short moment.

Synonyms

• (to illegally take possession of): See Thesaurus:steal
• (to secretly move): sneak

Antonyms

• (acquire licitly) receive, purchase, buy, earn
• (provide freely) donate, bestow, grant

Troponyms

• shoplift

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• burglarize
• burgle
• confiscate
• pickpocket
• pilfer
• steal away

Noun

steal (plural steals)

1. The act of stealing.
2. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.

   At this price, this car is a steal.

3. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
4. (baseball) A stolen base.
5. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
6. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.

Synonyms

• (merchandise available at a very attractive price): (great / real / very good) bargain

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, Tesla, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas, tesla