Caption vs X - What's the difference?
caption | x |
(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 twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun caption
is (typography) the descriptive heading or title of a document or part therof.As a verb caption
is to add captions to a text or illustration.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.caption
English
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.