Headline vs Caption - What's the difference?
headline | caption |
A heading or title of an article.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (entertainment) The top-billed attraction.
(nautical) A headrope.
(entertainment) To have top billing; to be the main attraction
(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.
As nouns the difference between headline and caption
is that headline is a heading or title of an article while caption is the descriptive heading or title of a document or part therof.As verbs the difference between headline and caption
is that headline is to have top billing; to be the main attraction while caption is to add captions to a text or illustration.headline
English
Noun
(en noun)Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
Synonyms
* (heading) hed * (top-billed attraction) headlinerSee also
*Verb
(headlin)Derived terms
* headlinercaption
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.