Win vs Capture - What's the difference?
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To conquer, defeat.
*1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book IV:
*:For and we doo bataille we two wyl fyghte with one kny?t at ones / and therfore yf ye wille fyghte soo we wille be redy at what houre ye wille assigne / And yf ye wynne vs in bataille the lady shal haue her landes ageyne / ye say wel sayd sir Vwayne / therfor make yow redy so that ye be here to morne in the defence of the ladyes ryght
*1998 , Rhapsody, Emerald Sword
*:For the glory, the power to win the Black Lord, I will search for the Emerald Sword.
(label) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
(label) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
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(label) To obtain (someone) by wooing.
*Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
*:Thy virtue won me; with virtue preserve me.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She is a woman; therefore to be won .
(label) To achieve victory.
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(label) To obtain (something desired).
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(label) To cause a victory for someone.
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To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Even in the porch he him did win .
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:And when the stony path began, / By which the naked peak they won , / Up flew the snowy ptarmigan.
To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
:(Raymond)
gain; profit; income
wealth; owndom; goods
an individual victory (opposite of a loss)
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(slang) a feat, an (extraordinary) achievement (opposite of a fail)
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)
Win is a related term of capture.
As verbs the difference between win and capture
is that win is to conquer, defeat while capture is .As a noun win
is pleasure; joy; delight or win can be gain; profit; income.win
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Verb
Derived terms
* play to win * win friends * win upEtymology 3
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Our first win of the season put us in high spirits.
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Derived terms
* winning * winnings * winner * for the win * you win * win back * win through * win round * win out * win over * win-win English irregular verbs English three-letter words 1000 English basic words ----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.
