Subscript vs Caption - What's the difference?
subscript | caption |
(printing) A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it.
(computing) A numerical index into an array.
(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 subscript and caption
is that subscript is a type of lettering form written lower than the things around it while caption is the descriptive heading or title of a document or part therof.As a verb caption is
to add captions to a text or illustration.subscript
English
Noun
(en noun)- In chemical formulas the number of atoms in a molecule is written as a subscript , so we write H2O for water which has two atoms of hydrogen for each one of oxygen.
Antonyms
* superscriptSee also
* superscribecaption
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.