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Caption   /kˈæpʃən/   Listen
Caption

noun
1.
Taking exception; especially a quibble based on a captious argument.
2.
Translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.  Synonym: subtitle.
3.
Brief description accompanying an illustration.  Synonym: legend.






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"Caption" Quotes from Famous Books



... distinctive and attractive the novice is liable to fall into the error of making it cheap and sensational. A title which offends against good taste must not be used, no matter how desirable it may appear in the matter of attractiveness. The newspaper caption writer who headed an account of a hanging "Jerked to Jesus!" attained the acme of attractiveness, but he also committed an unpardonable sin against good taste. The short story writer seldom descends to such depths of sensationalism: his chief offense consists in the use of double titles, connected ...
— Short Story Writing - A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story • Charles Raymond Barrett

... good as to attend, unless you are looking out for another Ahem!" (Hector compelled himself to give attention at this hint. ) "And you, Edie, it may be useful to you reram cognoscere causas. The nature and origin of warrant for caption is a thing haud alienum a Scaevolae studiis.You must know then, once more, that nobody can be arrested in Scotland ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... was about two miles from the town of —-, in the county of Galway, on the west coast of Ireland; and, as Mr Rainscourt had correctly surmised, when he returned to it, no officer could be found who was bold enough to venture his life by an attempt at caption, surrounded as he was by a savage and devoted peasantry, who had no scruples at bloodshed. Immured within its walls, with little to interest, and no temptation to expend money, Mr and Mrs Rainscourt lived for nearly two years, indulging their spleen ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat

... a native of Dorsetshire, and was appointed professor of physic at Oxford in 1627. This post he occupied during forty years, and is much distinguished by his treatise de vita naturae, and by the work which forms our caption. As he is the first who used the physiological term irritability, we have thought that some researches on this subject in general, and more particularly on his peculiar sentiments, might profitably occupy our retrospective department; for it is very ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

... Caption: Map showing the Turkish Territories occupied by the Armies of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Servia at the close of ...
— The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 - Third Edition • Jacob Gould Schurman



Words linked to "Caption" :   rendering, interlingual rendition, provide, motion-picture show, version, movie, subtitle, render, pic, picture show, moving-picture show, film, flick, motion picture, supply, title, illustration, picture, translation, legend, captious, moving picture, exception, furnish



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