Usually means: Seize, hold, or take control.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word capture:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. capture: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. capture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. capture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. capture: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Capture, capture: Wordnik
  6. capture: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. capture: Wiktionary
  8. capture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. capture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. capture: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Capture, capture: Dictionary.com
  12. capture (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. capture: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Capture (TV series), Capture (band), Capture (chess), Capture (disambiguation), Capture, The Capture (Animorphs), The Capture (TV series), The Capture (film), The Capture (novel), The Capture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Capture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. capture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. capture: Rhymezone
  18. capture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. capture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. capture: Free Dictionary
  21. capture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. capture: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. capture: Vocabulary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. capture: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Capture (rivers), capture: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. capture: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CAPTURE: Acronym Finder
  3. capture: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Capture: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. capture, capture: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. capture: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Capture: Chess Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. capture: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  4. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  7. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See captured as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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