Caption
['kæpʃ(ə)n] or ['kæpʃən]
Definition
(noun.) brief description accompanying an illustration.
(noun.) taking exception; especially a quibble based on a captious argument; 'a mere caption unworthy of a reply'.
(verb.) provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing.
Editor: Lou--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A caviling; a sophism.
(n.) The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process.
(n.) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed.
(n.) The heading of a chapter, section, or page.
Checker: Salvatore
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. (Law.) Arrest, seizure, apprehension.[2]. [Not sanctioned by good writers.] Title or heading (as of a chapter or a discourse).
Checked by Herman
Definition
n. the act of taking: an arrest: (Eng. law) the formal title of indictments and depositions which shows the authority under which it is executed or taken: in Scotland prior to 1837 the name given to the formal warrant to apprehend a debtor or other defaulting obligant which was given in the Bill Chamber after letters of horning had been executed.—adj. Cap′tious ready to catch at faults or take offence: critical: peevish.—adv. Cap′tiously.—n. Cap′tiousness.
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Examples
- Now, I find there's a little one out--a mere Palace Court jurisdiction--and I have reason to believe that a caption may be made upon that. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Indeed, the earliest entry of this discovery in the laboratory note-book bore that caption. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To extend this account would be to repeat what has been said under the caption of aim, interest, and thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Maura