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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
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“The Perfect Passive Participle is often equivalent to a coördinate clause; as, -- urbem captam dīruit, _he captured and destroyed the city_ (lit. _he destroyed the city captured_).”
“a participle; as, -- urbe captā, Aenēās fūgit, _when the city had been captured, Aeneas fled_ (lit. _the city having been captured_).”
“I felt the term captured the essence of good parenting rather nicely.”
“To the Middle Dutch maken, French-speakers had added their telltale suffix -age, and the rest of the word captured how people pronounced that mix of borrowed verb and native ending.”
“The state agency supposed to oversee the drilling is what you call a captured agency: the people regulating energy companies are also supposed to promote gas permits.”
“Yet the Pyongyang that Yu captured is one that is ready to celebrate, and this year marked not just the anniversary but also the named succession of Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il's youngest son.”
The Huffington Post: North Korean Workers' Party 65th Anniversary Celebration (PHOTOS)
“Losing the moral advantage of the justness of our cause, of being just and strict with our principles in how we treat those we have captured is frighteningly incompetent stupidity.”
“Details about actions and sensation are captured from the text and integrated with personal knowledge from past experiences.”
“The name captured me at first until its origin was explained to me; Hawke as in to Hawke up plegm, and Wind, as in to pas wind , better than Flobfart i suppose.”
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1906 Railway Cipher Code
Terms from the Standard Cipher Code of the American Railway Association, 1906. The terms were shorthand for common phrases used in telegraphic communications between station agents and Railway Asso...
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MEC4 Lesson 155
colonel, commander, major, escape, bide, captured, legal point, Singapore, surrender, mind you, infraction, military law and 38 more...
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hernesheir Railroad telegraphers' shorthand meaning "emigrant car(s)". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. Jan 21, 2013