capture

Forms

1.An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
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.

1.To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- Being so inflexible, the railway was easy prey to road competition, and the arrival of unregulated lorry transport from farm fields to town centres quickly captured all locally generated business.
2.To take hold of.
- The paintings in the gallery really captured my imagination.
3.To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
- She captured the sounds of a subway station on tape.
- She captured the details of the fresco in a series of photographs.
- Ultimately, whether you want to shoot digital or film, the object is to give the client what they want and to capture the image you want, the way you want it to look.
4.To reproduce convincingly.
- His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.
- In her latest masterpiece, she captured the essence of Venice.
- Winterhalter was gifted at capturing the luxurious fabrics and hairstyles of female royalty and he was commissioned to paint portraits of the continental Empresses Eugénie of France and Elizabeth of Austria.

Common· #1783

Borrowed from Middle French capture (noun), from Latin captūra.

Displaced native Old English fenġ (noun) and ġefōn (verb).