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UK
/kˈæpʃən/
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[ US /ˈkæpʃən/ ]
[ US /ˈkæpʃən/ ]
VERB
- provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing
NOUN
- translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen
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taking exception; especially a quibble based on a captious argument
a mere caption unworthy of a reply - brief description accompanying an illustration
How To Use caption In A Sentence
- If you use a TV tuner for video caption recording it's a great deal because your sound will be through your sound card, and the video is good quality.
- The Rafaees at Haji Malang. flickr-photo {border: solid 2px #000000;}. flickr-yourcomment {}. flickr-frame {text-align: left; padding: 3px;}. flickr-caption {font-size: 0. 8em; margin-top: 0px;} The Rafaees at Haji Malang « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
- American Chess Bulletin with the caption 'Capablanca's Bungalow Near Havana'. ChessBase News
- Most of the paintings are about 3¼ by 4 inches in size, captioned by four lines of Latin text with oversize, illuminated capitals and surrounded by wide borders of tiny bryony leaves on coiling vines. A Most Illuminating Show of Medieval Manuscript Pages
- Prescription (a slight modification of the older usucaption) is the dispensing with evidence of title, and is acquisitive when it is the means of acquiring Ownership and extinctive (divestitive) when it bars a right of action. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
- Other people's holiday snaps can be dull, but other people's family photos, if captioned amusingly, can be quite fun.
- The praetors changed the system of property by allowing a person, who had a thing in bonis, the right to recover before the prescribed term of usucaption had conferred absolute proprietorship. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Sound recordings of real events taken as they happen can be messy, from a technical standpoint, and captions can really help when audibility is hard to achieve.
- Kruger reprised banal images from the Eisenhower years, threw such admonitional captions as we don't need another hero, and presented her large, crisp montages in striking combinations of black, white and red. Graphic Content
- The newspapers have been amusing us with photographs of David Cameron and George Osborne on their summer breaks, above sarky little captions about how badly they're dressed. Face it, we all look dire on holiday | Victoria Coren