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# capture

verb (capture, captures, captured, capturing); noun (capture)

«capture» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To catch a person or animal and keep it so it cannot escape. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#m1)
2. To take control of a place or thing by force, like a castle in a battle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#m2)
3. To take a piece in a game such as chess or draughts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#m3)
4. To record something in a photo, film or words. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#m4)
5. To catch and hold attention or interest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#m5)
6. (noun) The act of catching someone or something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#m6)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#x1)
- The knights captured the castle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#x2)
- I captured your queen! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#x3)
- The photo captured the moment the ball went in. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#x4)
- Let's play capture the flag at break. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#x5)
- The story captured my imagination. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#x6)
- The zookeepers captured the escaped monkey. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#x7)
- Leaves capture light from the sun. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#x8)
- The Fowler then ran up quickly and captured her. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/#x9)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/capture/#x1)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/capture/#x2)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «capture» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capture/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«capture» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/capture.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «capture» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/capture/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«capture» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/capture.html) on Mova free.