capture
part of speech
verb (capture, captures, captured, capturing); noun (capture)
meaning for a pupil
1) To catch a person or animal and keep it so it cannot escape. tree →
2) To take control of a place or thing by force, like a castle in a battle. tree →
3) To take a piece in a game such as chess or draughts. tree →
4) To record something in a photo, film or words. tree →
5) To catch and hold attention or interest. tree →
6) (noun) The act of catching someone or something. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history: armies captured castles and towns. In games: capturing pieces in chess. In science: plants capture sunlight; cameras capture images. In stories, the hero may be captured and escape. Phrases: «capture the flag», «capture a moment», «capture someone's imagination».
examples
- The police captured the robber. tree →
- The knights captured the castle. tree →
- I captured your queen! tree →
- The photo captured the moment the ball went in. tree →
- Let's play capture the flag at break. tree →
- The story captured my imagination. tree →
- The zookeepers captured the escaped monkey. tree →
- Leaves capture light from the sun. tree →
- The Fowler then ran up quickly and captured her. tree →
note
Past form: captured. Opposite: release, free, set free. «Capture» is stronger than «catch»; it usually means keeping something, not just catching it for a moment.
In the corpora
- In chess the aim is checkmate, trapping the king, not capturing everything.
- In chess, learn how each piece moves; the aim is checkmate, not capturing everything.
- In chess the aim is checkmate, trapping the king, not capturing as many pieces as possible.
- The Ottoman sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire.
- In 410 the Visigoths captured and looted Rome itself, the first time an enemy had taken the city in about 800 years.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «capture» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.