Usually means: Securing possession or control over.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. capturing: Merriam-Webster
  2. capturing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. capturing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Capturing, capturing: Wordnik
  5. capturing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. capturing: Wiktionary
  7. Capturing, capturing: Dictionary.com
  8. capturing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Capturing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Capturing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. capturing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. capturing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. capturing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capturing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capturing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capturing: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (capture)

noun:  An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
noun:  The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
noun:  Something that has been captured; a captive.
noun:  The recording or storage of something for later playback.
noun:  (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
verb:  (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To take hold of.
verb:  (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
verb:  (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
verb:  (transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
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