Capture vs Downfall - What's the difference?
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An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
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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.
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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)
A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
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The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
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An act of falling down.
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To fall down; deteriorate; decline.
* 1977 , Mina P. Shaughnessy, Errors and expectations: a guide for the teacher of basic writing :
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* 2008 , Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra :
Capture is a related term of downfall.
As verbs the difference between capture and downfall
is that capture is while downfall is to fall down; deteriorate; decline.As a noun downfall is
a precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.capture
English
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.
Derived terms
* screen capture * capture the flagSee also
* take * arrest * apprehend * take over * snapshotAnagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Many economic and political reasons led to the downfall of the Roman Empire.
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- It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
Synonyms
* (precipitous decline in fortune) fall * (death or rapid deterioration) doomDerived terms
*Verb
- [...] wants to make civilization his subject, he will have a hard time proceeding with the sentence unless collapse is in his active vocabulary, for he cannot say "our civilization will downfall " or "fall down."
- Common belief has been that in the future the number of middle managers will downfall due to empowerment and team-building.
- It should be noted that the magnitude of satellites decreases when tuning out of degeneracy, and in the wavelength range of 1.2-1.3 pm it downfalls to the value of 10-15% of the main spike magnitude.
- [...] As goodly air as ever From lunar orb downfell — Be it by hazard, Or supervened it by arrogancy?