captured
past simple and past participle of
capture
Meaning of captured in English
capture verb [T] (CATCH)
B2
- catchThey were caught trying to smuggle cigarettes across the border.
- arrestHe was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage to property.
- place/put under arrestThe suspect was placed under arrest and charged with armed assault.
- captureThe soldiers were captured by enemy forces.
- apprehendThe police have apprehended two individuals in connection with the crime.
- nabThe cops nabbed him as he tried to get away.
The Democratic Party candidate captured 70 percent of the vote.
- -grabbing
- apprehend
- apprehension
- arrogate
- at bay idiom
- cage
- capture
- clutch
- collar
- get/lay/put your hands on someone idiom
- grab
- grabber
- grasp at something
- recover
- repossess
- seize
- sequester
- sequestration
- snag
- snatch
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capture verb [T] (RECORD)
B2
It would be impossible to capture her beauty in a painting.
- anti-realism
- anti-realist
- Calvary
- complementary
- confederate
- mimesis
- naturalistically
- non-figurative
- non-representational
- non-symbolic
- portrayal
- realism
- realist
- representation
- representational
- symbolic
- symbolism
- symbolization
- ultrarealism
- volumetric
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capture verb [T] (INTEREST)
C1
Examples of captured
captured
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Fifteen species were exclusively captured in the canopy, 10 were predominantly captured in the canopy, and 12 species were exclusively captured in ground nets.
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The problem is to disentangle behavioral non-compliance from a failure to be captured by language stimuli.
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The author believes that these will constitute, in the near future, a major improvement in the way knowledge is captured, structured, shared and reused.
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Is there a pain-specific facial expression that can be captured without relying on dynamic patterns of facial activity?
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With it was destroyed the local basis that territorial representation had originally captured.
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Captured mature females tended to leave blocks with unbaited traps in numerically larger proportions than blocks with baited traps (fig. 4a).
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This sensitivity to the temporal context of stimuli is somehow captured by representations formed at the hidden layer of the network.
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Each watches the other's piercing, and the whole sequence is captured on the researcher's videotape.
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The latter provide separate means for modelling computational aspects apart from the functional specifications captured by an algebra.
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The relative positions of the constituents are meaningful and long-distance (or non-adjacent) dependencies are captured with traces and indices.
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This provides a non-monotonic consequence relation but the special role of the integrity constraints (whose truth cannot be given up) is not captured.
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This incident, as related by the commanding officer, captured the nation's imagination and was extensively discussed precisely because it was out of the ordinary.
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The unique design of the larger study had captured both naturally occurring role-play episodes and the original interactions on which the play was based.
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While the survey took great care to gather valid income data, the author does not claim that it was perfectly captured.
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The fact that repairs contain data that persists from the original instance is captured with persistence defaults.
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