different between yield vs capture

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ji?ld/
• Rhymes: -i?ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English yielden, yelden, ?elden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ?ieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan, from Proto-Germanic *geldan? (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?eld?- (“to pay”).

Verb

yield (third-person singular simple present yields, present participle yielding, simple past yielded or (obsolete) yold, past participle yielded or (obsolete) yolden)

1. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
   • God yield thee, and God thank ye.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette

     The good mother holds me still a child! Good mother is bad mother unto me! A worse were better; yet no worse would I. Heaven yield her for it!

2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
   • The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

3. To give way; to allow another to pass first.

   Yield the right of way to pedestrians.

4. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.

   They refuse to yield to the enemy.
5. To give, or give forth, (anything).
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[1]:

     […] We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never / Yields us kind answer.

6. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 21:

     He turned the handle as he spoke, but the door did not yield. We threw ourselves against it. With a crash it burst open, and we almost fell headlong into the room.

7. To produce as return, as from an investment.

   Historically, that security yields a high return.

8. (mathematics) To produce as a result.

   Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.

9. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.

   Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.

10. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
11. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

Synonyms

• submit - To fully surrender
• capitulate - To end all resistance, may imply a compensation with an enemy or to end all resistance because of loss of hope
• succumb - To fully surrender, because of helplessness and extreme weakness, to the leader of an opposing force
• relent - A yielding because of pity or mercy
• defer - A voluntary submitting out of respect, reverence or affection
• give way - To succumb to persistent persuasion.
• surrender - To give up into the power, control, or possession of another
• cede - To give up, give way, give away
• give up - To surrender
• produce - To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.
• bear - To produce something, such as fruit or crops
• supply - To provide (something), to make (something) available for use
• give in
• to trade away - to let others get hold of a property or right of yours.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ?eld, from Old English ?ield, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geld? (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?eld?- (“to pay”).

Noun

yield (countable and uncountable, plural yields)

1. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
2. A product; the quantity of something produced.

3. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
4. (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.

Synonyms

• crop
• fruits
• gain
• harvest
• produce
• return

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Leidy, ylide

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.