Abduction vs Captured - What's the difference?
abduction | captured |
Leading away; a carrying away.
(physiology) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. (rfex)
(logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
* 2005 , Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction , page 256:
The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
(capture)
An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
* Blackstone
The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
Something that has been captured; a captive.
(computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
* 2014 , Ian Black, "
To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
To reproduce convincingly.
To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
* 1954 , Fred Reinfeld, How to Be a Winner at Chess , page 63, Hanover House (Garden City, NY)
As a noun abduction
is leading away; a carrying away .As a verb captured is
(capture).abduction
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(wikipedia abduction)Noun
(en noun)- The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction , and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.
- the abduction of a child
Usage notes
* In Gregg shorthand (version: ) the word is represented: a - b - d - u - k - shSynonyms
* (sense) kidnapping * (logic) retroduction * (determining most plausible explanation) retroductionAntonyms
* (physiology) adductionDerived terms
* alien abductionReferences
captured
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(head)Anagrams
*capture
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Noun
(en noun)- even with regard to captures made at sea
- the capture of a lover's heart
Verb
- to capture an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal
Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
- She captured the sounds of a subway station on tape.
- She captured the details of the fresco in a series of photographs.
- His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.
- In her latest masterpiece, she captured the essence of Venice.
- My pawn was captured .
- He captured his opponent’s queen on the 15th move.
- How deeply ingrained capturing is in the mind of a chess master can be seen from this story.