capture

Meanings

Noun

• An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
• 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.
• A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.

Verb

• To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
• To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
• To reproduce convincingly.
• To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French capture, from Latin captūra.