Definitions for captures

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captures cap·ture

Spelling: [kap-cher]

IPA: /ˈkæp tʃər/

Captures is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 605 anagrams from letters in captures (aceprstu).

Definitions for captures

noun

1. the act of capturing.
2. the thing or person captured.
3. Physics. the process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle.
4. Crystallography. substitution in a crystal lattice of a trace element for an element of lower valence.

verb (used with object)

1. to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize:
2. to gain control of or exert influence over:
3. to take possession of, as in a game or contest:
4. to represent or record in lasting form:
5. Computers. to enter (data) into a computer for processing or storage. to record (data) in preparation for such entry.

Origin of captures

1535-45; Middle French Latin captūra, equivalent to capt(us) taken (past participle of capere to take) + -ūra -ure

Examples for captures

No one doubts that these comedians will be killed if ISIS captures them.

Then I read aloud from something that captures the Holiday Spirit.

He captures Ramone and his second wife, Barbara, together in the studio in one photo, him on bass, her on guitar.

We are not short of money, thanks to the captures we have made.

Any scene that didn't witness a couple of captures and a couple of rescues was no good.

The diagram (Fig. 76) will explain the way in which the earth makes her captures.

Another animal was soon provided for me from the captures we had made.

I remembers when we captures him it's 239 the last spring round-up but one.

Amanda Reiman, policy manager for the California branch of the Drug Policy Alliance, captures the complex research problem well.

He captures all the different issues a president deals with and moves from one to the next.