Captured vs Raptured - What's the difference?
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(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)
(rapture)
Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
* Addison
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* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VII
In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
(obsolete) The act of kidnapping]] or [[abduct, abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
(obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
(obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
* Chapman
* 1888 James Russell Lowell, Agassiz 6.1.21:
A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
(dated) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
* 2012 , The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit , page 138:
(dated) To experience great happiness or excitement.
To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the .
* 2010 , Gerald Mizejewski, ?Jerimiah Asher, Charting the Supernatural Judgements of Planet Earth (page 233)
* 2011 , Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie (ISBN 0758271816)
(rare) To take part in the .
* 2001 , Allan Appel, Club Revelation: A Novel , page 320:
(uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
* 1885 , Edward Everett Hale, G.T.T.; or, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman , page 158:
* 2003 , Jessica Peers, Asparagus Dreams , page 75:
* 2003 , Beverly Adam, Irish Magic , page 121:
As verbs the difference between captured and raptured
is that captured is (capture) while raptured is (rapture).captured
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*capture
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(en noun)- even with regard to captures made at sea
- the capture of a lover's heart
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- 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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(head)rapture
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(en noun)- Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture .
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.
- My heart filled with rapture then, and it fills now as it has each of the countless times I have recalled those dear words, as it shall fill always until death has claimed me. I may never see her again; she may not know how I love her--she may question, she may doubt; but always true and steady, and warm with the fires of love my heart beats for the girl who said that night: "I love you beyond all conception."
- That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture .
- With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes.
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* ("rapture" on Wikipedia)References
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(raptur)- She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.
- The third person raptured by God into heaven was Elijah
- “Praise the Lord, he's been raptured.” Good grief. “I don't think so, Mrs. Farris. 'Course, I'm Episcopalian, and I'm pretty sure we don't get raptured'. But, Baptists get ' raptured , don't they?”
- "If she's raptured ," Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, "if that's what happened to her, then "
- And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them.
- Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.
- They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.