caption
part of speech
noun (a caption, captions); verb (caption, captions, captioned, captioning)
meaning for a pupil
1) A caption is a short piece of text next to a picture, photo or cartoon that explains it. tree →
2) Captions are words shown on a screen that write down what people say, for people who cannot hear well. tree →
3) To caption a picture is to write a caption for it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In literacy and non-fiction writing pupils add captions to diagrams, photos and posters; captions are a feature of information texts. In everyday life captions appear in newspapers, comics and on social media; closed captions or subtitles help deaf viewers. Online safety: captions can be misleading, so check where the picture came from.
examples
- Write a caption under each photo. tree →
- The caption said «A baby elephant at the zoo». tree →
- Turn on the captions so Grandad can follow the film. tree →
- The comic had funny captions. tree →
- Caption your diagram: «The water cycle». tree →
- The picture was real, but the caption was false. tree →
note
Countable: captions. Regular verb: captioned. Captions describe pictures; headings go above a section of text. Subtitles usually translate speech; captions can also include sounds like «[door slams]».
In the corpora
- Automatic captions guess words from sound and sometimes mishear, which matters a lot for deaf viewers.
- Tables, captions, headings and bullet points are part of a text and can hold answers.
- Look for a photo, a caption under it and columns too.
- Newspaper features include a headline, a photo, a caption and columns.
- Old videos are often shared with new captions as if they were happening now; this is called recycled footage.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «caption» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.