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Captioned vs Captioner - What's the difference?

captioned | captioner |

Captioner is a derived term of captioned.



As a verb captioned

is past tense of caption.

As a noun captioner is

one who, or that which, adds captions.

captioned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (caption)

  • caption

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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. 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 captioning

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add captions to a text or illustration.
  • Only once the drawing is done will the letterer caption it.
  • To add captions to a film or broadcast.
  • Anagrams

    Pontiac

    captioner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, adds captions.
  • * 2004 , Gary D. Robson, The Closed Captioning Handbook , , page 177,
  • Some captioners will raise or lower the captions in the center by one row to add one more subtle differentiation, but this is uncommon.
  • * 2007 , Ferguson's Careers in Focus: Broadcasting , 3rd edition, Ferguson (imprint), Infobase Publishing, page 123,
  • In the broadcast setting, real-time captioners do not have to produce transcripts, which eliminates the long hours that go along with that aspect of reporting.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 24, author=Mark Lawson, title=The problems of subtitling the news, work=Guardian citation
  • , passage=And how relieved the Ceefax captioners must be that Sir Alex Ferguson still refuses to give interviews to Match of the Day, because of a BBC documentary that upset him. }}

    Anagrams

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