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Caption
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What's The Definition Of Caption?
[n] brief description accompanying an illustration
[n] translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen [v] provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing Synonyms | Synonyms for Caption: legend | subtitle Related Terms | Find terms related to Caption: banner | banner head | drop head | dropline | epigraph | hanger | head | head up | heading | headline | jump head | legend | motto | overline | rubric | running head | running title | scarehead | screamer | spread | spreadhead | streamer | subhead | subheading | subtitle | superscription | title | title page | underline See Also | film | flick | furnish | illustration | interlingual rendition | motion picture | movie | moving picture | pic | picture | picture show | provide | render | rendering | supply | title | translation | version Caption In Webster's Dictionary \Cap"tion\, n. [L. captio, fr. caper to take. In senses
3 and 4, perhaps confounded in meaning with L. caput a head.
See {Capacious}.]
1. A caviling; a sophism. [Obs.]
This doctrine is for caption and contradiction.
--Bacon.
2. The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial
process. [R.] --Bouvier.
3. (Law) 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. --Bouvier.
--Wharton.
4. The heading of a chapter, section, or page. [U. S.]
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