capture1 verbcapture2 noun
capturecap‧ture1 /ˈkæptʃə $ -ər/ ●●○ W3 verb [transitive] 
VERB TABLE
capture
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | capture |
| he, she, it | captures | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | captured |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have captured |
| he, she, it | has captured | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had captured |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will capture |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have captured |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am capturing |
| he, she, it | is capturing | |
| you, we, they | are capturing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was capturing |
| you, we, they | were capturing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been capturing |
| he, she, it | has been capturing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been capturing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be capturing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been capturing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Cole was captured after his plane was shot down outside Hanoi.
- Cuba captured the first gold medal of the Olympic Games.
- Many dolphins are accidentally captured in the nets of tuna fishermen.
- Mayor Agnos captured 28.7% of the vote.
- Rebels wounded 1087 soldiers and captured 417.
- The Super Bowl always captures a large audience.
- The town of Moulineuf was captured after a siege lasting ten days.
- The TV camera captured Dad waving as he left the airplane.
- They've captured twenty enemy soldiers.
- Wilson's autobiography neatly captures the atmosphere of the late 19th century.
- At twenty, he went to war against Perugia, where he was captured and imprisoned.
- Cameras have already captured the image.
- In one battle, sources say, the rebels captured 100 tons of ammunition.
- Polay had been captured before, in 1989, but had escaped in July 1990.
- She had captured his father by promising an elegant uncluttered lifestyle very different from the neglected unhappy home he had come from.
- This gives them overlapping fields of view and the true stereo vision that they need to capture their prey.
THESAURUS
to stop someone who is trying to escape, especially by running after them and then holding them: · He raced after her, but he couldn’t catch her.· The police caught the bank robbers after a car chase through the city.
if the police arrest someone, they take him or her to a police station because they think that person has done something illegal: · Wayne was arrested for dangerous driving.· The police arrested him and charged him with murder.
formal if the police apprehend someone they think has done something illegal, they catch him or her: · The two men were later apprehended after they robbed another store.· The killers were never apprehended.· All of the kidnappers were apprehended and convicted.
to catch an enemy or a criminal in order to keep them as a prisoner: · The French king was captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.· The gunmen were finally captured after a shoot-out with the police.
to catch someone, especially in a war, in order to keep them as a prisoner: · 350 soldiers were killed and another 300 taken prisoner.· Ellison was taken prisoner by the Germans during the retreat to Dunkirk.
to make someone go to a place from which they cannot escape, especially by using your skill and intelligence: · Police trapped the man inside a bar on the city’s southside.
to force someone into a place from which they cannot escape: · He was cornered outside the school by three gang members.
Longman Language Activatorto catch someone and make them a prisoner to catch a person in order to make them a prisoner: · They've captured twenty enemy soldiers.· Cole was captured after his plane was shot down outside Hanoi.
to catch several people by bringing them together from different places: round up somebody: · Officers succeeded in rounding up most of the gang members.round somebody up: · People are saying that the civil guard rounded several of the protestors up and shot them.
to catch someone, especially in a war, and keep them as a prisoner: · Ellison was taken prisoner by the Germans during the retreat to Dunkirk.· Military police took Kilby prisoner and locked him in a barn.· 350 soldiers were killed and another 300 taken prisoner.
to catch someone for a second time when they have escaped after being caught once: · Viet Cong forces quickly recaptured the soldiers.· The prisoners were recaptured a few hours after their escape.
WORD SETSadjutant, nounarmoured, adjectivebarracks, nounbasic training, nounbatman, nounbattalion, nounbearskin, nounbillet, nounbillet, verbbombardier, nounbooty, nounbrigade, nounbrigadier, nounbrigadier-general, nouncadet, nouncanteen, nouncantonment, nouncapture, verbcavalry, nouncavalryman, nouncenturion, nouncharger, nounchevron, nounCol., colonel, nouncommand, nouncommando, nouncommissary, nouncompany, nouncontingent, nouncorps, noundesert, verbdeserter, noundesertion, noundetachment, noundetail, noundisengage, verbdishonourable discharge, noundivision, noundivisional, adjectivedog tag, noundraft, verbdragoon, noundrill, noundrill, verbdugout, nounencampment, nounexpeditionary force, nounfield marshal, nounfiring squad, nounfive star general, nounflank, nounfoot locker, nounforay, nounfour-star general, nounfusilier, noungarrison, noungarrison, verbGen., general, noungeneralship, nounGI, noungrenadier, nounground forces, noungrunt, nounguardsman, noungunner, nounhussar, nouninduct, verbinductee, nouninfantry, nouninfantryman, nounirregular, nounlance corporal, nounlegion, nounlegionary, nounlegionnaire, nounLieut, loot, nounLt., man-at-arms, nounmatériel, nounMC, nounmedic, nounmercenary, nounmess hall, nounMIA, nounM.O., nounmobilize, verbmotorized, adjectivemounted, adjectivemusketeer, nounmuster, nounnon-commissioned officer, nounobstacle course, nounparade, verbparade ground, nounparatrooper, nounparatroops, nounpennon, nounpicket, nounpicket, verbpip, nounplatoon, nounpoint man, nounposition, nounprivate, nounprivate soldier, nounPte, redcoat, nounregiment, nounregular, nounreservist, nounreveille, nounroute march, nounsapper, nounsarge, nounsignalman, nounsoldier, nounsoldiering, nounsoldierly, adjectivesoldier of fortune, nounsoldiery, nounsortie, nounsortie, verbspecial forces, nounsquad, nounsquaddy, nounstaff sergeant, nounstandard-bearer, nounstormtrooper, nounsubaltern, nounTerritorial Army, the, trench, nountroop, nountrooper, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
So far he has evaded capture.
So far he has evaded capture. (=to take a picture, describe something etc that will remind you of a particular time)· They captured the moment on film.
(=show what someone is feeling)· His comments reflected the national mood.
(=recorded on video)· The crime was captured on video.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· This survey is an attempt to capture much more detailed and precise data.· Every attempt to capture an image on film or on disk will ultimately fall short.· An attempt to capture as much sound from a piano as possible.· Figure 7.2 is an attempt to capture the complexity involved.· He calculated that the Viet Minh would be destroyed in any attempt to capture his position.
· The lichen-crusted walls bedecked with city grime capture my attention time and time again.· His 70 homers that season captured the attention of even non-baseball fans.· But why chose this as a means of capturing the hearer's attention?· They will need to be especially mindful of her motivations and create situations that are charged enough to capture her attention.· The print itself is featureless and does nothing visually to capture the attention or involve the emotions.· It is the only horse race that captures the attention of the general public, much like motor sports' Indianapolis 500.· In fact, the newsreader did succeed in capturing my attention.· The next item particularly captures Michael's attention.
· Since then, cameras have captured her in a variety of moods, phases, faces.· Given the constraints of magazine as medium, View Camera none the less captures the spirit, if not the essence.· You're simply using your eye and camera to capture a moment.· Quite the opposite: Why try to copy naturalistic virtues that the camera can capture more tellingly?· Gimmelmann wished he had brought his camera to have captured the transformation.· We will also require a slide scanning attachment to the camera capturing images for our image databases.· Central's cameras have also captured a good deal of real-life drama thanks to the Cook Report.· A car park security camera captured the tail end of the attack in the centre of Swindon.
· Nevertheless, it captures the essence of the game very well.· A few simple brushstrokes have captured the essence of her inextinguishable hope for a better future.· It is difficult to capture the essence of why a trip is enjoyable.· We want to capture the essence of his great trio, but with our own arrangements and in our own way.· To the environmentally concerned, however, the origin and extraction method for capturing an essence may be of vital importance.· They did capture the essence of what we were looking for: the emotional aspect of growing up with the virus.· Anyone acquainted with ancient ikons will recognise how acutely she has captured their essence.· It was mind-boggling how quickly he captured the essence of our business and started making improvements.
· We also captured some graphic film of the screaming kids.· My father captures all this on film.· A week ago the robbers were captured on film during another raid.· Every attempt to capture an image on film or on disk will ultimately fall short.· The Football Association might now look into the incident, which is captured on film.· The idea was to capture on film how the countryside was changing as the nation underwent great social and economic change.· You capture light on a film.
· Teenager Lee Ellison captured the headlines, and attracted League scouts to Feethams, with his goal scoring earlier in the season.· Although Patriots capture headlines and boast of a massive underground movement, they are so amorphous that counting them is guesswork.· But now that confronting Enron has captured the necessary headlines, the deal is quietly being put back together again.
· Gossip has it that Madonna has also captured Beatty's heart.· They remember history by evoking magical names from the past, players who captured the hearts of the nation.· If only he hadn't captured her heart.
· Nikon 2 uses multiple-threads so you can capture images even though the program is busy processing other captured images.· But a thing I found was that kept wanting to freeze the frame: to capture single images that summed everything up.· Frequently used in discussions about scanners as a measure of their ability to capture halftone images.· Every attempt to capture an image on film or on disk will ultimately fall short.· Most people would also consider a scanner so that they can capture images and documents.· Cameras have already captured the image.· Using this method, the input device is an optical scanner, which captures the image as a pixel representation.· Their aim was to capture high-resolution images of the asteroid on the way down.
· Even the constitutional principle itself hardly captured the popular imagination.· But it captures their imagination, and they want to buy it.· Not long afterwards the Dams Raid took place, and this did hit the headlines and captured the imagination of the public.· But neither has captured the imagination of the electorate.· Like Lakoff's book about women and language, it captured the imagination of feminists both inside and outside the academy.· Small enterprises could capture the imaginations and mobilize the energies of young men.· For the cartoonists, it's a daily battle against time, to create work that captures the imagination.· The exhibition reveals Andr Citro n's vivid creativity and ability to capture the public's imagination.
· This has captured the public interest.· Where Ocre captures our interest is in the expression of new experiences conveyed by many of its poems.· The home pack relates to domestic environmental issues and has been designed to capture the interest of the whole family.· Britten was particularly revered for his vocal scores for children, which captured their imagination and interest without condescension.· He made his lecture demonstrations as lively as possible in order to capture the interest of the undergraduates.
· Athens is now capturing the western market from Corinth.· Those factors will prompt first one, then several dealers, to lower prices to capture market share from competitors.· How do we go about capturing greater market share against sleepy competitors?
· This is ideal for note-taking or capturing the mood of a shot in the accompanying audio.· Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, captures this mood.· I am talking about phrases which speak to the country by capturing its mood or its hopes.· The soundtrack captures the mood of the film with some macho exciting music combined with some mellow saddle-up-and-ride-into-the sunset stuff.· No one has captured the moods of the sea better than Claude Debussy in his symphonic sketches, La Mer.· But Michael Foot was a formidable orator and on occasions he could coin a phrase which captured the mood perfectly.
· In January 1989, the party captured a shocking 7.5 percent of the vote in West Berlin's municipal elections.· He captured less than 5 percent of the vote.· Those three brands have captured 8 percent of the youth market.· In simultaneous elections to the Vienna city council, it also captured 28 percent of the vote, a record.· It captured 15 percent of the viewing audience and finished third behind network comedies.· Perot captured 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992· The two companies say Imax has captured up to 90 percent of the market.
· Republicans captured two open Senate seats that had been held by Democrats.· Mike Enzi captured the seat vacated by Alan Simpson.
· Thomas Cook has introduced a £1 deposit offer to try to capture a greater share of early summer holiday sales.· Those factors will prompt first one, then several dealers, to lower prices to capture market share from competitors.· How do we go about capturing greater market share against sleepy competitors?
· The photograph that best captures the spirit of this book was taken in 1963 at Wembley.· Seven-year-old Amy Collard captured the spirit of many who watched the space shuttle Challenger disintegrate in the Florida sky.· This developer's vision and commitment has captured the spirit of the Andalucian craft tradition.· Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams captures the spirit of the settlement movement.· Horatio Alger captured this spirit in hundreds of stories.· Given the constraints of magazine as medium, View Camera none the less captures the spirit, if not the essence.· Rather, he was a young and fashionable man who was able to capture the spirit of the dawning era.
· Rita was on target to capture the singles title when a recurring leg injury regrettably ended her bid.· At nearly thirty-six years old he captured his fifth Open title, just one short of Harry Vardon's record.· Allison's big day was in 1969, a year after City captured the title.
· Edward captured the town and massacred its inhabitants.· This force, unlike its predecessors, captured sizeable towns, and in reaching Wilton and Wallingford penetrated a considerable distance inland.· It revived concern over the harsh army round-ups in captured towns and villages.
VERB· Increasingly, the core-periphery model fails to capture the diversity, in terms of economic performance, of both the periphery and the core.· No matter how many times I ran it through it failed to capture more than one egg in twenty.· The liberal pluralist model of complex interdependence is useful, but fails to capture the dynamism of integration as a process.· Neither the successful actors nor the state intervene to protect those who fail to capture many resources.· And it is such visions that Pires' pretty, but generic, performances fail to capture.
· Everyone who was in the union was either killed or captured.· Three Northerners were killed, three Southerners captured.
· Oliver Cromwell came to Stamford in 1643, following the retreat of the Cavalier army who had tried to capture Peterborough.· A photographer tried to capture her in the fading sunlight.· Rebels from Mabanda tried to capture Vugizo.· Can you look again, and try to capture all the colors of that sky?· They're trying to capture a loving relationship, but you can't do it like that.· Meanwhile, local amateur photographers are having a field day trying to capture the agricultural cloth of gold on film.· I would spend all my time trying to capture this place on paper.· On four continents scientists have consumed the equivalent of billions of dollars trying to capture the dream.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► capture somebody’s imagination/attention etc► capture somebody’s heartPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1person to catch a person and keep them as a prisoner: - Teenager Lee Ellison captured the headlines, and attracted League scouts to Feethams, with his goal scoring earlier in the season.
- The story of a boy raised by monkeys has caught the imagination of millions.
Government troops have succeeded in capturing the rebel leader. 40 captured French soldiers► see thesaurus at catch2place/thing to get control of a place or object that previously belonged to an enemy, during a war: The town was captured after a siege lasting ten days. The Dutch fleet captured two English ships.3animal to catch an animal after chasing or following it: The tiger was finally captured two miles outside the village.4film/record/art to succeed in recording, showing, or describing a situation or feeling, using words or pictures: These photographs capture the essence of working-class life at the turn of the century. The robbery was captured on police video cameras.5capture somebody’s imagination/attention etc to make someone feel very interested in something: His stories of foreign adventure captured my imagination.6capture somebody’s heart to make someone love you7business/politics to get something that previously belonged to one of your competitors: We aim to capture eight percent of the UK wine market. Republicans captured three Senate seats from the Democrats.8capture the headlines to be talked or written about a lot in the newspapers or on television: Irvine Welsh first captured the headlines with his novel ‘Trainspotting’.9computer technical to put something in a form that a computer can use: The data is captured by an optical scanner.10chess to remove one of your opponent’s pieces from the board in chesscapture1 verbcapture2 noun
capturecapture2 noun [uncountable] WORD ORIGINcapture2
Origin:
1500-1600 French, Latin captura, from captus; ➔ CAPTIVE1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The government has offered $500,000 for information leading to Sanchez' capture.
- They are offering a reward for information leading to his capture.
- Any disciplinary action taken for failing to follow procedure would be eclipsed by the success of his capture.
- Both met defeat and one suffered capture, thus becoming, in a very real sense, a national liability.
- Particularly significant was his capture of the Republican vote by 69 %-26 % over McCain.
- Rendezvous and capture were expected early Thursday.
- The government's capture of Toro airstrip near Tabanya has put the displaced almost beyond the reach of help.
- Yet the significance for the ancient Israelites of the capture of the ark went beyond the scope of such attachments.
WORD SETS
access, verbaccess point, nounaccess time, nounaccounting system, accumulator, nounadd-on, nounADSL, nounaffective computing, nounAI, nounALGOL, nounalias, nounANSI, anti-spam, adjectiveanti-virus, adjectiveanti-virus software, nounAPL, nounapp, nounApple, Apple Macintosh, applet, nounapplication, nounapplication software, nounarcade game, nounarchitecture, nounarchive, nounarchive, verbarray, nounartificial intelligence, nounASCII, nounASIC, nounASP, nounassembly language, nounasynchronous, adjectiveAT&T, attachment, nounaudit trail, nounautomate, verbautomated, adjectiveautomation, nounavatar, nounB2B exchange, nounB2C, adjectiveB2E, adjectiveBabbage, Charles, backslash, nounbackspace, nounbackup, nounback-up copy, bandwidth, nounbar code, nounBASIC, nounbatch, nounbatch processing, nounbaud rate, nounBerners-Lee, Tim, bespoke, adjectivebeta test, nounBig Blue, bioinformatics, nounbiometric, adjectivebit, nounbitmap, nounBlackBerry, nounbloatware, nounblog, nounBluetooth, nounBMP, nounbond certificate, book entry, bookmark, nounbookmark, verbbook of final entry, nounbook of first entry, nounBoolean, adjectiveboot, verbbootable, adjectivebootstrapping, nounbot, nounbotnet, nounbps, brain dump, nounbroadband, nounbrown goods, nounbrowse, verbbrowser, nounbubble jet printer, nounbuddy list, nounbuffer, nounbuffer, verbbug, nounbulletin board, nounbundle, nounbundle, verbburn, verbbus, nounbusiness continuity services, nounbusiness continuity services, button, nounbyte, nounCabinet Office Briefing Rooms, cable modem, nouncache, nouncache, verbCAD, nounCAD/CAM, nounCAL, nounCalifornia, nounCALL, nounCAM, nounCambridge, Capita, caps lock, nouncapture, verbcapture, nouncard, nouncathode ray tube, nounCAT scan, nounCBT, nounCD-R, nounCD-ROM, nounCD-ROM drive, CDRW, nounCD-RW, nouncentral processing unit, nouncentral processor, nounCGI, nounCHAPS, character, nounchat room, nouncheat, nouncheckbox, nounchip, nounchip card, CIM, CIO, clerical assistant, click, verbclickable, adjectiveclient, nounclient machine, client-server, adjectiveclient/server architecture, clip art, nounclipboard, nouncloaking, nounclock cycle, nounclock speed, nounclone, nouncluster, nounCOBOL, nouncode, nouncoder, nouncom, Comdex, nouncommand, nouncomm port, comms, nouncompact disc, nounCompaq, compatibility, nouncompatible, adjectivecompatible, nouncompile, verbcompiler, nouncompress, verbcomputer, nouncomputer (industry) analyst, computer-aided, adjectivecomputer-aided design, nouncomputer-aided manufacture, computer-aided manufacturing, nouncomputer-assisted, adjectivecomputerate, adjectivecomputer-based training, computer-generated, adjectivecomputer-integrated manufacture, computerize, verbcomputer-literate, adjectivecomputer modelling, nouncomputer science, nouncomputer system, computer virus, nouncomputing, nounconcordance, nounconfiguration, nounconfigure, verbconnect, verbconnectivity, nounconsole, nouncontrol, nouncontrol key, nouncookie, nouncoordinate, nounCorel, corrupt, verbcounter, nouncourseware, nounCPU, nouncrack, verbcrack, nouncracker, nouncrash, verbcrash, nounCroft, Lara, cross-platform, adjectivecross-posting, nounCtrl, nouncursor, nouncut, verbcutover, nouncyber-, prefixcybercrime, nouncybernetics, nouncyberpunk, nouncybersickness, nouncyberspace, nouncyberterrorist, nouncyberwidow, noundata, noundata bank, noundatabase, noundatabase management, database management system, data capture, noundata centre, data dictionary, noundata encryption standard, noundata file, data interchange format file, data mining, noundata processing, noundata protection, Data Protection Act, the, Dateline, daytrader, nounday trading, nounDBMS, debug, verbdecision support system, decode, verbdecompress, verbdecrypt, verbdefault, noundefragment, verbDel, noundelete, verbdeletion, noundeliverable, noundematerialize, verbdemo, verbdemonstration version, denial of service attack, noundeselect, verbdesktop, noundesktop computer, noundesktop publishing, noundestination site, dialogue box, noundial-up, adjectivedigerati, noundigicam, noundigital nervous system, digital rights management, digital wallet, nounDilbert, direct access, noundirectory, noundisaster recovery, noundisc, noundisinfect, verbdisk, noundisk drive, noundiskette, noundisk operating system, display, noundisplay, verbdistributed processing, Dixons, dock, noundock, verbdocking station, noundocument, noundocument sharing, noundongle, nounDOS, noundot-matrix printer, noundouble click, verbdouble-click, verbdouble density, adjectivedown, adverbdownload, verbdownload, noundownloadable, adjectivedowntime, noundown time, downwardly compatible, adjectiveDP, noundrag, verbdrive, noun-driven, suffixdriver, noundropdown, noundrop down, noundrop-down menu, nounDTP, noundumb terminal, dump, verbdump, nounDVD, nounDVD-ROM, nounEasdaq, noune-book, noune-business, nounECN, noune-commerce, nouneditor, nounedutainment, noune-fatigue, nounE-FIT, nounEFTPOS, nounelectronic, adjectiveelectronic bill of lading, electronic cottage, nounelectronic data interchange, nounelectronic funds transfer, nounelectronic invoice, electronic mail, nounelectronic media, electronic publishing, nounelectronics, nounelectrosmog, nounEllison, Larry, email, nounemail account, embed, verbencrypt, verbend-to-end, adjectiveenter, verbenterprise application integration, nounentry, nounEPROM, noune-publishing, nounequipment leasing, erase, verbErnie, error, nounerror message, nounescape key, Ethernet, noune-ticket, nounE-ticket, nounexecutable, nounexecute, verbexecution, nounexit, verbexpansion card, nounexpansion slot, nounexpert system, nounexport, verbextension, nounextranet, nouneye scan, nounF2F, adjectivefabricator, nounfactory preset, nounfatware, nounfeed, verbfeed, nounfield, nounfifth generation computer, file, nounfile manager, nounfilename, nounfile sharing, nounfile transfer, filing system, filter, nounfirewall, nounfirmware, nounfirst generation, nounfirst in, first out, nounfirst-person shooter, nounfive nines, nounfixed wireless, nounflash, verbflash, nounflash drive, nounflash memory, nounflatscreen, adjectiveflat screen, flip chip, nounfloor broker, floppy disk, nounfly-by-wire, nounfolder, nounfont, nounfooter, nounfootprint, nounforklift upgrade, nounformat, verbFortran, nounforum, noun404, adjectivefreeware, nounftp, nounfunction, nounfunctionality, nounfunction key, nounfungible, adjectivefuzzy logic, nounGame Boy, gameplay, noungamer, noungaming, noungarbage in, garbage out, Gates, Bill, gateway, nounghost, nounGIF, noungigabit, noungigabyte, nounGIGO, GIS, nounGlitter, Gary, global, adjectiveGLOBEX, nounGMS, nounGoogle, gopher, noungraphical, adjectivegraphical user interface, noungraphics, noungraphics card, noungraphic software, grid computing, noungroupware, nounGUI, nounhack, verbhack, nounhacker, nounhacktivist, nounhandshake, nounhard copy, nounhard disk, nounhard drive, nounhardware, nounhard-wired, adjectiveHawk, Tony, Hawking, Stephen, head, nounheader, nounhelp, nounhelp desk, nounhelp menu, help screen, nounHewlett Packard, hexadecimal, adjectivehigh-definition, adjectivehigh-level, adjectivehigh-level language, highlight, verbhome computer, home office, nounhome shopping, hookup, nounhook-up, nounhost computer, hot key, nounhot link, nounhot spot, nounHTML, nounhttp, hyperlink, nounhypertext, nounIBM, icon, nounICT, nounidentifier, nouniMac, nounimport, verbinbox, nounincremental backup, nounincubator space, industrial design, infect, verbinfected, adjectiveinformation exchange, information retrieval, nouninformation system, information technology, nouninfowar, nouninitialize, verbinkjet printer, nouninput, nouninput, verbinput/output, adjectiveinstall, verbinstaller, nounInstinet, Intel, intelligent terminal, interactive, adjectiveinteractive whiteboard, nouninterface, nouninterface, verbInternational Securities Exchange, nounInternet cafe, nounInternet Service Provider, interpreter, nounintranet, nouninvoke, verbIP address, nouniPod, nouniris scan, nounISDN, nounISP, nounIT, nouniterate, verbiTunes, iTV, nounJava, nounjob, nounjob bank, Jobs, Steve, joystick, nounJPEG, nounK, KB, keno, nounkey, nounkeyboard, nounkeyboard, verbkeyboarder, nounkeypad, nounkeystroke, nounkeyword, nounkilobyte, nounkit, nounkludge, nounknowledge base, Kraftwerk, LAN, nounlanguage, nounlaptop, nounlaser disk, nounlaser printer, nounlaunch, verbLCD, nounlight industry, nounlight pen, nounline printer, nounlink, verbLinux, nounLISP, nounlisting paper, listserv, nounload, verblocal area network, nounlog file, LOGO, nounloop, nounlow-level, adjectiveMac, nounmachine, nounmachine code, nounmachine language, machine-readable, adjectiveMacintosh, nounmacro, nounmagnetic disk, nounmagnetic media, nounmagnetic tape, nounmail, nounmail, verbmailbomb, nounmailbox, nounmailing list, nounmail merge, nounmainframe, nounmainframe computer, main memory, manual, adjectivemaximize, verbmegabyte, nounmemory, nounmemory address, memory bank, nounmemory card, nounmemory hog, nounMemory Stick, nounmenu, nounmessage, nounmetadata, nounmicro, nounmicrochip, nounmicrocomputer, nounmicroelectronics, nounmicroprocessor, nounMicrosoft, MIDI, nounmigrate, verbmigration, nounMillennium bug, minicomputer, nounminimize, verbmips, mission-critical, adjectiveMIT, mixer, nounmodel, nounmodel, verbmodelling, nounmodem, nounmodule, nounmonitor, nounMoore, Gordon, Moore's Law, nounmorphing, nounmotherboard, nounMotorola, mouse, nounmouse mat, nounmouse miles, nounmouse potato, nounMP3 player, nounMP4 player, nounMPEG, nounMSC, nounMS-DOS, multimedia, adjectivemulti-player gaming, nounmultiple applications, multiplexer, nounmultitasking, nounnagware, nounNasdaq, nounNASDAQ, Naseem, Prince, National Market System, nounNEC, nerd, nounnest, verbNetscape Navigator, network, nounnetwork, verbneural computer, nounneural network, nounneuroinformatics, nounnewbie, nounnew economy, nounNintendo, node, nounnoise, nounnotebook, nounnumber-cruncher, nounnumber crunching, nounobject, nounobject language, object-oriented, adjectiveOCR, nounOfex, nounoffice machinery, offline, adverboff-line, adjectiveonline, adjectiveonline catalogue, online updating, nounon-screen, adjectiveopen, verbOpen Group, the, open outcry, nounopen system, nounoperating system, nounoperation, nounoptical character recognition, nounoptical fibre, nounoption, nounorder, nounorganizing business, OSI, nounoutbox, nounoutput, nounoutput, verbover-the-counter dealing, over-the-counter market, over-the-counter share, over-the-counter stock, over-the-counter trading, overwrite, verbP2P, adjectivepackage, nounpacket, nounpacket-switching, nounpage, nounpage break, nounpalette, nounpalm phone, nounpalmtop, nounpaperless, adjectiveparallel data query, parallel port, parallel processing, nounPASCAL, nounpass-along, adjectivepassword, nounpaste, verbpasting, nounpatch, nounpause, verbPC, nounPC Card, nounPDA, nounPDF, nounPDF file, pen drive, nounPentium, peripheral, adjectiveperipheral, nounpersonal communicator, nounpersonal computer, nounpersonal electronic device, nounpersonal organizer, nounpetaflop, nounphishing, nounping, verbpiracy, nounpirate, verbpixel, nounplasma screen, nounplatform, nounplatform game, nounPlayStation, plotter, nounplug and play, nounplug-and-play, adjectiveplug-in, nounpointer, nounpop-under, nounpop-up, nounport, nounport, verbportable, adjectivepost, verbpost-industrial, adjectivePostScript, nounPowerPoint, nounprint, verbprinter, nounprintout, nounprint-out, nounprint preview, nounprocess, verbprocessing, nounprocessor, nounprogram, nounprogram, verbprogram file, programmable, adjectiveprogrammer, nounprogramme trading, programming, nounprogramming language, PROLOG, nounPROM, nounprompt, verbprompt, nounprotocol, nounPsion, pull down, nounpull-down, adjectivepull-down menu, nounpunched card, nounquantum computer, nounQuarkXPress, queue, nounqwerty, adjectiveRAM, nounrandom access 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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES So far he has evaded capture.
So far he has evaded capture. (=to take a picture, describe something etc that will remind you of a particular time)· They captured the moment on film.
(=show what someone is feeling)· His comments reflected the national mood.
(=recorded on video)· The crime was captured on video.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB· Rámirez-Sánchez, tried inabsentia, had evaded capture since the murders in Paris on June 27, 1975.· Government officials have been eager to learn exactly when Hanssen was actively spying and how he evaded capture for so long.· It evades capture by lodging itself inside the very muscles of the pursuer.· He went to Gouesnou during a recent visit to meet friends who helped him to evade capture for a time.
· Security along the frontier would be strengthened and information likely to lead to the capture of criminals and deserters would be exchanged.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1when you catch someone in order to make them a prisoner: - The story of a boy raised by monkeys has caught the imagination of millions.
The two soldiers somehow managed to avoid capture.2when soldiers get control of a place that previously belonged to an enemycapture of the capture of Jerusalem in 10993when you get control of something that previously belonged to one of your competitors4when you put information into a form a computer can use