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# caption

«caption» in Mova's school dictionary: **a short piece of text next to a picture, photo or cartoon…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a caption, captions); verb (caption, captions, captioned, captioning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A caption is a short piece of text next to a picture, photo or cartoon that explains it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caption/#m1)

2) Captions are words shown on a screen that write down what people say, for people who cannot hear well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caption/#m2)

3) To caption a picture is to write a caption for it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caption/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In literacy and non-fiction writing pupils add captions to diagrams, photos and posters; captions are a feature of information texts. In everyday life captions appear in newspapers, comics and on social media; closed captions or subtitles help deaf viewers. Online safety: captions can be misleading, so check where the picture came from.

### examples

- Write a caption under each photo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caption/#x1)
- The caption said «A baby elephant at the zoo». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caption/#x2)
- Turn on the captions so Grandad can follow the film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caption/#x3)
- The comic had funny captions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caption/#x4)
- Caption your diagram: «The water cycle». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caption/#x5)
- The picture was real, but the caption was false. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caption/#x6)

### note

Countable: captions. Regular verb: captioned. Captions describe pictures; headings go above a section of text. Subtitles usually translate speech; captions can also include sounds like «[door slams]».

### In the corpora

- [Automatic captions guess words from sound and sometimes mishear, which matters a lot for deaf viewers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/9/)
- [Tables, captions, headings and bullet points are part of a text and can hold answers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/21/)
- [Look for a photo, a caption under it and columns too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/11/)
- [Newspaper features include a headline, a photo, a caption and columns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/22/)
- [Old videos are often shared with new captions as if they were happening now; this is called recycled footage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «caption» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caption/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.