I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be captured/caught on video (= recorded on video )
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The crime was captured on video.
capture the moment (= to take a picture, describe something etc that will remind you of a particular time )
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They captured the moment on film.
evaded capture
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So far he has evaded capture .
reflect/capture sb's mood (= show what someone is feeling )
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His comments reflected the national mood.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
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This survey is an attempt to capture much more detailed and precise data.
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Every attempt to capture an image on film or on disk will ultimately fall short.
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An attempt to capture as much sound from a piano as possible.
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Figure 7.2 is an attempt to capture the complexity involved.
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He calculated that the Viet Minh would be destroyed in any attempt to capture his position.
attention
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The lichen-crusted walls bedecked with city grime capture my attention time and time again.
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His 70 homers that season captured the attention of even non-baseball fans.
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But why chose this as a means of capturing the hearer's attention ?
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They will need to be especially mindful of her motivations and create situations that are charged enough to capture her attention .
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The print itself is featureless and does nothing visually to capture the attention or involve the emotions.
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It is the only horse race that captures the attention of the general public, much like motor sports' Indianapolis 500.
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In fact, the newsreader did succeed in capturing my attention .
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The next item particularly captures Michael's attention .
camera
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Since then, cameras have captured her in a variety of moods, phases, faces.
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Given the constraints of magazine as medium, View Camera none the less captures the spirit, if not the essence.
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You're simply using your eye and camera to capture a moment.
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Quite the opposite: Why try to copy naturalistic virtues that the camera can capture more tellingly?
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Gimmelmann wished he had brought his camera to have captured the transformation.
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We will also require a slide scanning attachment to the camera capturing images for our image databases.
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Central's cameras have also captured a good deal of real-life drama thanks to the Cook Report.
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A car park security camera captured the tail end of the attack in the centre of Swindon.
essence
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Nevertheless, it captures the essence of the game very well.
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A few simple brushstrokes have captured the essence of her inextinguishable hope for a better future.
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It is difficult to capture the essence of why a trip is enjoyable.
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We want to capture the essence of his great trio, but with our own arrangements and in our own way.
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To the environmentally concerned, however, the origin and extraction method for capturing an essence may be of vital importance.
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They did capture the essence of what we were looking for: the emotional aspect of growing up with the virus.
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Anyone acquainted with ancient ikons will recognise how acutely she has captured their essence .
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It was mind-boggling how quickly he captured the essence of our business and started making improvements.
film
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We also captured some graphic film of the screaming kids.
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My father captures all this on film .
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A week ago the robbers were captured on film during another raid.
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Every attempt to capture an image on film or on disk will ultimately fall short.
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The Football Association might now look into the incident, which is captured on film .
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The idea was to capture on film how the countryside was changing as the nation underwent great social and economic change.
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You capture light on a film .
headline
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Teenager Lee Ellison captured the headlines , and attracted League scouts to Feethams, with his goal scoring earlier in the season.
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Although Patriots capture headlines and boast of a massive underground movement, they are so amorphous that counting them is guesswork.
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But now that confronting Enron has captured the necessary headlines , the deal is quietly being put back together again.
heart
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Gossip has it that Madonna has also captured Beatty's heart .
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They remember history by evoking magical names from the past, players who captured the hearts of the nation.
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If only he hadn't captured her heart .
image
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Nikon 2 uses multiple-threads so you can capture images even though the program is busy processing other captured images.
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But a thing I found was that kept wanting to freeze the frame: to capture single images that summed everything up.
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Frequently used in discussions about scanners as a measure of their ability to capture halftone images .
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Every attempt to capture an image on film or on disk will ultimately fall short.
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Most people would also consider a scanner so that they can capture images and documents.
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Cameras have already captured the image .
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Using this method, the input device is an optical scanner, which captures the image as a pixel representation.
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Their aim was to capture high-resolution images of the asteroid on the way down.
imagination
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Even the constitutional principle itself hardly captured the popular imagination .
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But it captures their imagination , and they want to buy it.
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Not long afterwards the Dams Raid took place, and this did hit the headlines and captured the imagination of the public.
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But neither has captured the imagination of the electorate.
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Like Lakoff's book about women and language, it captured the imagination of feminists both inside and outside the academy.
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Small enterprises could capture the imaginations and mobilize the energies of young men.
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For the cartoonists, it's a daily battle against time, to create work that captures the imagination .
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The exhibition reveals Andr Citro n's vivid creativity and ability to capture the public's imagination .
interest
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This has captured the public interest .
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Where Ocre captures our interest is in the expression of new experiences conveyed by many of its poems.
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The home pack relates to domestic environmental issues and has been designed to capture the interest of the whole family.
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Britten was particularly revered for his vocal scores for children, which captured their imagination and interest without condescension.
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He made his lecture demonstrations as lively as possible in order to capture the interest of the undergraduates.
market
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Athens is now capturing the western market from Corinth.
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Those factors will prompt first one, then several dealers, to lower prices to capture market share from competitors.
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How do we go about capturing greater market share against sleepy competitors?
mood
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This is ideal for note-taking or capturing the mood of a shot in the accompanying audio.
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Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, captures this mood .
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I am talking about phrases which speak to the country by capturing its mood or its hopes.
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The soundtrack captures the mood of the film with some macho exciting music combined with some mellow saddle-up-and-ride-into-the sunset stuff.
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No one has captured the moods of the sea better than Claude Debussy in his symphonic sketches, La Mer.
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But Michael Foot was a formidable orator and on occasions he could coin a phrase which captured the mood perfectly.
percent
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In January 1989, the party captured a shocking 7.5 percent of the vote in West Berlin's municipal elections.
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He captured less than 5 percent of the vote.
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Those three brands have captured 8 percent of the youth market.
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In simultaneous elections to the Vienna city council, it also captured 28 percent of the vote, a record.
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It captured 15 percent of the viewing audience and finished third behind network comedies.
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Perot captured 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992&038;.
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The two companies say Imax has captured up to 90 percent of the market.
seat
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Republicans captured two open Senate seats that had been held by Democrats.
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Mike Enzi captured the seat vacated by Alan Simpson.
share
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Thomas Cook has introduced a £1 deposit offer to try to capture a greater share of early summer holiday sales.
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Those factors will prompt first one, then several dealers, to lower prices to capture market share from competitors.
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How do we go about capturing greater market share against sleepy competitors?
spirit
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The photograph that best captures the spirit of this book was taken in 1963 at Wembley.
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Seven-year-old Amy Collard captured the spirit of many who watched the space shuttle Challenger disintegrate in the Florida sky.
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This developer's vision and commitment has captured the spirit of the Andalucian craft tradition.
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Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams captures the spirit of the settlement movement.
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Horatio Alger captured this spirit in hundreds of stories.
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Given the constraints of magazine as medium, View Camera none the less captures the spirit , if not the essence.
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Rather, he was a young and fashionable man who was able to capture the spirit of the dawning era.
title
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Rita was on target to capture the singles title when a recurring leg injury regrettably ended her bid.
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At nearly thirty-six years old he captured his fifth Open title , just one short of Harry Vardon's record.
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Allison's big day was in 1969, a year after City captured the title .
town
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Edward captured the town and massacred its inhabitants.
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This force, unlike its predecessors, captured sizeable towns , and in reaching Wilton and Wallingford penetrated a considerable distance inland.
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It revived concern over the harsh army round-ups in captured towns and villages.
■ VERB
fail
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Increasingly, the core-periphery model fails to capture the diversity, in terms of economic performance, of both the periphery and the core.
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No matter how many times I ran it through it failed to capture more than one egg in twenty.
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The liberal pluralist model of complex interdependence is useful, but fails to capture the dynamism of integration as a process.
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Neither the successful actors nor the state intervene to protect those who fail to capture many resources.
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And it is such visions that Pires' pretty, but generic, performances fail to capture .
kill
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Everyone who was in the union was either killed or captured .
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Three Northerners were killed , three Southerners captured .
try
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Oliver Cromwell came to Stamford in 1643, following the retreat of the Cavalier army who had tried to capture Peterborough.
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A photographer tried to capture her in the fading sunlight.
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Rebels from Mabanda tried to capture Vugizo.
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Can you look again, and try to capture all the colors of that sky?
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They're trying to capture a loving relationship, but you can't do it like that.
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Meanwhile, local amateur photographers are having a field day trying to capture the agricultural cloth of gold on film.
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I would spend all my time trying to capture this place on paper.
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On four continents scientists have consumed the equivalent of billions of dollars trying to capture the dream.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
capture/catch sb's imagination
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The story of a boy raised by monkeys has caught the imagination of millions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cole was captured after his plane was shot down outside Hanoi.
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Cuba captured the first gold medal of the Olympic Games.
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Many dolphins are accidentally captured in the nets of tuna fishermen.
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Mayor Agnos captured 28.7% of the vote.
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Rebels wounded 1087 soldiers and captured 417.
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The Super Bowl always captures a large audience.
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The town of Moulineuf was captured after a siege lasting ten days.
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The TV camera captured Dad waving as he left the airplane.
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They've captured twenty enemy soldiers.
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Wilson's autobiography neatly captures the atmosphere of the late 19th century.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At twenty, he went to war against Perugia, where he was captured and imprisoned.
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Cameras have already captured the image.
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In one battle, sources say, the rebels captured 100 tons of ammunition.
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Polay had been captured before, in 1989, but had escaped in July 1990.
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She had captured his father by promising an elegant uncluttered lifestyle very different from the neglected unhappy home he had come from.
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This gives them overlapping fields of view and the true stereo vision that they need to capture their prey.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
evade
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Rámirez-Sánchez, tried inabsentia, had evaded capture since the murders in Paris on June 27, 1975.
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Government officials have been eager to learn exactly when Hanssen was actively spying and how he evaded capture for so long.
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It evades capture by lodging itself inside the very muscles of the pursuer.
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He went to Gouesnou during a recent visit to meet friends who helped him to evade capture for a time.
lead
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Security along the frontier would be strengthened and information likely to lead to the capture of criminals and deserters would be exchanged.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The government has offered $500,000 for information leading to Sanchez' capture .
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They are offering a reward for information leading to his capture .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any disciplinary action taken for failing to follow procedure would be eclipsed by the success of his capture .
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Both met defeat and one suffered capture , thus becoming, in a very real sense, a national liability.
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Particularly significant was his capture of the Republican vote by 69 %-26 % over McCain.
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Rendezvous and capture were expected early Thursday.
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The government's capture of Toro airstrip near Tabanya has put the displaced almost beyond the reach of help.
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Yet the significance for the ancient Israelites of the capture of the ark went beyond the scope of such attachments.