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verb/ˈkæpʃn/
/ˈkæpʃn/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they caption | /ˈkæpʃn/ /ˈkæpʃn/ |
| he / she / it captions | /ˈkæpʃnz/ /ˈkæpʃnz/ |
| past simple captioned | /ˈkæpʃnd/ /ˈkæpʃnd/ |
| past participle captioned | /ˈkæpʃnd/ /ˈkæpʃnd/ |
| -ing form captioning | /ˈkæpʃənɪŋ/ /ˈkæpʃənɪŋ/ |
- caption something to write a caption for a picture, photograph, etc.
- The cartoon was captioned ‘The English abroad’.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘seizing, capture’): from Latin captio(n-), from capere ‘take, seize’. Early senses ‘arrest’ and ‘warrant for arrest’ gave rise to ‘statement of where, when, and by whose authority a warrant was issued’ (late 17th cent.): this was usually attached to a legal document, hence the sense ‘heading or accompanying wording’ (late 18th cent.).
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