caption

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Sometimes this caption is a fact about one of the actors or one of the people, places, or events mentioned in passing.

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  1. noun A title, short explanation, or description accompanying an illustration or a photograph.
  2. noun A series of words superimposed on the bottom of television or motion picture frames that communicate dialogue to the hearing-impaired or translate foreign dialogue.
  3. noun A title or heading, as of a document or article.
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  • Include a caption, your name, a daytime telephone and the town you live in. —  CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News
  • The list will contain the name of each program and the caption of the program; the caption is the title that is displayed at the top of the window. —  PC Magazine: New Product Reviews
  • In printed copies of Monday's Daily Universe, due to a spelling error in a photo caption, the word "apostles" was replaced with a different word. —  Regret the Error
  • The caption was then reviewed again by a professional staff proofreader who checks for additional mistakes. —  Regret the Error
  • What's New in This Release: [read full changelog] · The ability to modify the OSD caption was added. —  Softpedia - Windows - All
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  1. Middle English capcioun, arrest, from Old French capcion, from Latin captiō, captiōn-, from captus, past participle of capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin captio(n-), a taking, seizing, fraud, deceit, fallacy, from capere, past participle captus, take: see capable.
 

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/ˈkæpʃən/
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