capture

Everyday

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 →

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 Jewish tradition

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

• Perhaps capturing an intermediary concept between the immaterial divine imminence and the material wind is ‘wisp’, meaning both a small breeze and a phantom presence, but ‘Holy Wisp’ is a rather underwhelming expression. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• Most literally, it means ‘waste(land)’, the lifeless open desert, a translation of [Genesis 1:2] so far captured in English only by Robert Alter’s The Hebrew Bible (2019), who poetically renders תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ tohu vavohu as “waste and welter”; cf. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) 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.