Caption vs Transcription - What's the difference?
caption | transcription |
(typography) The descriptive heading or title of a document or part therof
A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
(cinematography) A piece of text appearing on screen as subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast.
(legal) The section on an official paper that describes when, where, what was taken, found or executed, and by whom it was authorized.
(obsolete, legal) A seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel).
* 1919 Thomas Welburn Hughes. A treatise on criminal law and procedure. The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA.
To add captions to a text or illustration.
To add captions to a film or broadcast.
The act or process of transcribing.
Something that has been transcribed, including:
# (music) An adaptation of a composition.
# A recorded radio or television programme.
# (linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
(genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.
As nouns the difference between caption and transcription
is that caption is (typography) the descriptive heading or title of a document or part therof while transcription is the act or process of transcribing.As a verb caption
is to add captions to a text or illustration.caption
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Noun
(en noun)Sec. 557 (p. 378).
- The caption and asportation must be felonious.
Usage notes
In film and video, captions'' may transcribe or describe all significant dialogue and sound for viewers who cannot hear it, while ''subtitles translate foreign-language dialogue.Derived terms
* captionable, captioned, captioner, captioning * (film) closed caption, closed-caption, closed captions, closed captioned, closed-captioned, close captioned, close-captioned, closed captioning, closed-captioning * (film) open caption, open-caption, open captions * (film) real time caption, real-time caption, real time captioning, real-time captioningVerb
(en verb)- Only once the drawing is done will the letterer caption it.
Anagrams
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(wikipedia transcription)Noun
(en noun)- These interludes frequently include transcriptions of Italian folk songs.