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Graphic device to add descriptive text to visuals
A caption is a short descriptive or explanatory text, usually one or two sentences long, which accompanies a photograph, picture, map, graph, pictorial
Caption_(text)
Process of displaying interpretive texts to screens
Closed captioning (CC) is the processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive
Closed_captioning
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up caption in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Caption may refer to: Caption (text), explanatory text about specific published photos and articles
Caption
Alternative text that appears when a HTML element cannot be rendered
HTML attribute used in HTML and XHTML documents to specify alternative text (alt text) that is to be displayed in place of an element that cannot be rendered
Alt_attribute
Text used to explain and elaborate on published photographs
Photo captions, also known as cutlines, is a few lines of text used to explain and elaborate on published photographs. In some cases captions and cutlines
Photo_caption
English language term
A caption contest or caption competition is a writing competition where participants are required to write an image's accompanying text. Writing contests
Caption_contest
Textual representation of events and speech in motion imagery
Integration Language; Timed Text DFXP. Some programs and online software allow automatic captions, constructed mainly by way of speech-to-text technology. For example
Subtitles
Machine learning model
inverse task, image captioning, was more tractable, and a number of image captioning deep learning models came prior to the first text-to-image models. The
Text-to-image_model
Generation of text in natural languages
output texts. The end-to-end approach has perhaps been most successful in image captioning, that is automatically generating a textual caption for an
Natural_language_generation
Text transmitted instantly as it is typed or created
Real-time text is used for conversational text, in collaboration, and in live captioning. Technologies include TDD/TTY devices for the deaf, live captioning for
Real-time_text
Human occupation
A speech-to-text reporter (STTR), also known as a captioner, is a person who listens to what is being said and inputs it, word for word (verbatim), as
Speech-to-text_reporter
caption_text Actor (role) Tenure First regular appearance Last regular appearance William Hartnell (First Doctor) 23 November 1963 – 29 October 1966 (2 years
List of actors who have played the Doctor
List_of_actors_who_have_played_the_Doctor
Analog television closed captioning standard
subtitle format, EIA-608 captioning is classified as a closed, analog, in-band (transmitted inside the video stream), and text-based protocol (the latter
EIA-608
Digital text modified to appear frightening or glitchy
resembling Zalgo text. In 2020, a teenager and TikTok creator submitted the word "hamburger" in Zalgo text for his school yearbook caption; when the yearbook
Zalgo_text
Oldest form of comics, where the stories are told in captions below the images
Text comics or a text comic is a form of comics where the stories are told in captions below the images and without the use of speech balloons. It is the
Text_comics
XML-based file format
authoring, transcoding or exchanging timed text information presently in use primarily for subtitling and captioning functions. TTML2, the second major revision
Timed_Text_Markup_Language
Machine learning model
videos of interest, generated videos, captioned-videos, and textual information that help train models for accuracy. Text-video datasets used to train models
Text-to-video_model
Caption Text Meaning Yes Compliant equipment may emit in this band without special restrictions. No Equipment shall not emit in this band. Indoors Equipment
List_of_WLAN_channels
players that support closed captioning and SAMI format may display the contents of the included SAMI file. A SAMI file is a plain text file and therefore can
SAMI
Series of US coins
The 50 State quarters (authorized by Pub. L. 105–124 (text) (PDF), 111 Stat. 2534, enacted December 1, 1997) were a series of circulating commemorative
50_State_quarters
Japanese TV entertainment term
itadakimashita; more fully translated as the staff ate and enjoyed it later) is a caption shown on screen in a Japanese TV program to indicate that the food presented
The_staff_ate_it_later
Canadian software company
Open Text Corporation (styled as opentext) is a global software company that develops and sells information management software. OpenText, headquartered
OpenText
Video-generating LLM (2024–2026)
is employed to augment training data by using a video-to-text model to create detailed captions for videos. OpenAI trained the model using publicly available
Sora_(text-to-video_model)
Tibeto-Burman language of Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan
sample words published in Renato Figuerido's Lepcha dictionary. The following text is Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Lepcha: ᰠᰕᰆᰪ
Lepcha_language
Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Caption text Team Sport Georges River Tigers Soccer Oyster Bay Bullets Basketball Green Point Kookaburras Netball
Oyster_Bay,_New_South_Wales
American department store chain
forever [Caption text only.]". Chicago Tribune. September 10, 2008. Archived from the original on July 25, 2012. "More grieving in store [Caption text only
Marshall_Field's
2016 studio album by Ayumi Hamasaki
Japanese). Retrieved June 29, 2016. Hamasaki, Ayumi (January 2016). "Caption text; Heard that today n tmrw will b snowy days so I changed my plans and
Made in Japan (Ayumi Hamasaki album)
Made_in_Japan_(Ayumi_Hamasaki_album)
contact details, and sometimes a photograph of the journalist. caption 1. Explanatory text placed below or beside a photograph, map, graph, or other form
Glossary_of_journalism
Type of artificial intelligence system
or rule-based text templates to generate descriptions. With the rise of deep learning, neural networks became dominant in image captioning. In 2015, methods
Vision–language_model
American nonprofit organization
that would decode and display the text while watching closed-captioned television programs. Up to that point, captioning of television shows was rare, with
National_Captioning_Institute
Australian accessibility organisation
[citation needed] Media Access Australia, originally known as the Australian Caption Center (A.C.C.), was co-founded by Adam Salzer and Alexandra Hynes in 1982
Media_Access_Australia
French water treatment & waste management company
Caption text Meridiam 38.3% GIP 38.3% Caisse des Dépôts et Consignation / CNP Assurances 18.8% Employees 4.4%
Suez_(company,_2015)
Fictional detectives created by Reginald Hill
Caption text Novel Year released TV Adaptation A Clubbable Woman 1970 Series 1, Episode 1 An Advancement of Learning 1971 Series 1, Episode 2 Ruling Passion
Dalziel_and_Pascoe
Recording of text(s) being read
recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements
Audiobook
Film captioning system
The Rear Window Captioning System (RWC) is a method for presenting, through captions, a transcript of the audio portion of a film in theatres for deaf
Rear_Window_Captioning_System
Program that extracts subtitles from video
default. YouTube began supporting WebVTT in April, 2013. Closed captioning Timed text Comparison of video player software § Subtitle ability Avidemux
SubRip
International auxiliary language
Esperanto texts. Lou Harrison, who incorporated styles and instruments from many world cultures in his music, used Esperanto titles and/or texts in several
Esperanto
English singer (born 1983)
Caption text Year Title Role Venue 2010–2011 Flashdance Nick Hurley UK and Ireland tour 2011 Footloose Chuck Cranson UK and Ireland tour 2011–2012 Wicked
Matt_Willis
Title for a retired emperor of Japan
Capital, 794-1869, pp. 340-341. ...Sakuramachiden Gyokozu: information in caption text Archived 2008-01-19 at the Wayback Machine "Emperor Akihito to Be Called
Daijō_Tennō
Computer recognition of visual text
handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and
Optical_character_recognition
Time between drawing frames or fields
"vertical blanking" part of the datastream, they are unable to carry closed caption text or most of the other items that, in analog TV interconnects, are transmitted
Vertical_blanking_interval
Automatic conversion of spoken language into text
recognition is used in deaf telephony, such as voicemail to text, relay services, and captioned telephone. Individuals with learning disabilities who struggle
Speech_recognition
1749 novel by Henry Fielding
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957. English Wikisource has original text related to this article: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Wikimedia
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The_History_of_Tom_Jones,_a_Foundling
Rock music with a story told over multiple parts
April 21, 2009. ISSN 1053-6590. ProQuest 239922403. "Picks of the week [Caption text only]". Vancouver Courier. Vancouver, B.C: Postmedia Network Inc. August
Rock_opera
Internet meme
sunglasses. A Tumblr blog added various captions under the photo, imagining what Clinton might have been texting, and paired them with a matching photo
Texts_from_Hillary
Presentation of text media in synchrony with other media, such as audio and video
captioning for people lacking audio devices or having hearing impairments, karaoke, scrolling news items or teleprompter applications. Timed text for
Timed_text
Australian airline
Caption text Aircraft Number Notes Cessna 310R 2 Piper PA-31-350 Chieftain 10 Piper PA-31P Mojave 3 Pressurized Cessna CitationJet/M2 1 Cessna CJ2+ 1 Cessna
Air_Link
Machine learning methods using multiple input modalities
question answering, cross-modal retrieval, text-to-image generation, aesthetic ranking, and image captioning. Multimodal learning was proposed in 2011
Multimodal_learning
Five tiles used in Islamic decorative art
succession of two- and three-dimensional geometric patterns. There is no text, but there is a grid pattern and color-coding used to highlight symmetries
Girih_tile
Catholic French language weekly junior newspaper
puzzled by the lack of caption text below Hergé's comic panels (as was the norm for comics of the day) and added their own text below each panel. Hergé
Cœurs_Vaillants
Improving the formatting, style, and accuracy of text
the illustrations against the captions and the text Read the list of illustrations against the illustrations and captions Read the table of contents against
Copy_editing
Emperor of Japan from 1779 to 1817
pp. 152–54, 249–50 National Archives of Japan Sakuramachiden Gyokozu: caption text Archived 2008-01-19 at the Wayback Machine Cullen, L.M. (2003). A History
Emperor_Kōkaku
Non-profit German artificial intelligence organization
large datasets of images and captions scraped from the web which have been used to train a number of high-profile text-to-image models, including Stable
LAION
Application programming interface for multimedia processing
filter graphs for DirectShow. Filters are displayed as boxes, with a text caption showing the name of the filter. GraphEdit can be used to prototype DirectShow
DirectShow
Fictional character in Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Last Frakkin' Special Archived 2009-03-22 at the Wayback Machine closed caption text during episode "Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words"
Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)
Number_Six_(Battlestar_Galactica)
Videoconferencing software
improved keyboard shortcuts; new tools to adjust the size of closed captioning text; and sign language interpreters' windows can now sit directly next
Zoom_(software)
Caption text Year Number of civil servants subject to stoppage of increment 2016 8(5) 2017 17(7) 2018 10(4) 2019 9(7) 2020 9(2)
Hong_Kong_Civil_Service
Tibetic language of Baltistan, Pakistan
is the first sura (chapter) of the Quran, Al-Fatiha, its original Arabic text, English translation, as well as the Balti translation, as published (un-edited)
Balti_language
Image-generating machine learning model
images and captions taken from LAION-5B, a publicly available dataset derived from Common Crawl data scraped from the web, where 5 billion image-text pairs
Stable_Diffusion
British colony in Asia from 1946 to 1963
The Crown Colony of North Borneo was a Crown colony on the island of Borneo established in 1946 shortly after the dissolution of the British Military Administration
Crown_Colony_of_North_Borneo
Territory of Western Sahara
Río de Oro (Spanish: [ˈri.o ðe ˈoɾo] , Spanish for "River of Gold"; Arabic: وادي الذهب, Wādī-aḏ-Ḏāhab, often transliterated as Oued Edhahab) is the southern
Río_de_Oro
Caption text College Head Term start College of St Hild and St Bede Simon Forrest 2020 Collingwood College Thom Brooks 2025 Grey College Sonia Virdee 2023
Colleges_of_Durham_University
File format
discussions about what caption format should be supported by HTML5—the main options being the relatively mature, XML-based Timed Text Markup Language (TTML)
WebVTT
1930s–1960s American children's book series
Wisconsin, were small, compact books designed with a captioned illustration opposite each page of text. Other publishers, notably Saalfield, adopted this
Big_Little_Book_series
Former state in Northern Italy
The March (also margraviate or marquisate) of Montferrat was a frontier march of the Kingdom of Italy during the Middle Ages and a state of the Holy Roman
March_of_Montferrat
Technique in neural networks for learning joint representations of text and images
image-caption pairs. During training, the models are presented with batches of N {\displaystyle N} image-caption pairs. Let the outputs from the text and
Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training
Contrastive_Language–Image_Pre-training
Country in central Europe (960–1025)
Civitas Schinesghe (Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈtʃivitas skiˈnesɡe]; Polish: Państwo Gnieźnieńskie), commonly referred to in historiography as the Duchy of
Civitas_Schinesghe
Short-lived unilaterally proclaimed state
The Democratic Republic of East Timor (Portuguese: República Democrática de Timor-Leste, Tetum: Repúblika Demokrátika de Timór-Lorosa'e), or simply East
Democratic Republic of East Timor (1975)
Democratic_Republic_of_East_Timor_(1975)
Transcription service and company
Rev is an American speech-to-text company that provides closed captioning, subtitles, and transcription services. The company, based in San Francisco and
Rev_(company)
American rock band
April 21, 2009. ISSN 1053-6590. ProQuest 239922403. "Picks of the week [Caption text only]". Vancouver Courier. Vancouver, B.C: Postmedia Network Inc. August
The_Protomen
Family of machine learning approaches
Applications include language translation, image captioning, conversational models, speech recognition, and text summarization. Seq2seq uses sequence transformation:
Seq2seq
American rating system
Caption text Symbol Rating Descriptor Content GA — General Audiences Appropriate for all audiences. No blood or graphic violence. No profanity, no mature
Videogame_Rating_Council
Northernmost region of Egypt
Lower Egypt (Arabic: مصر السفلى Miṣr as-Suflā) is the northernmost region of Egypt, which consists of the fertile Nile Delta between Upper Egypt and the
Lower_Egypt
Silesian duchy (1315–1564)
The Duchy of Oświęcim (Polish: Księstwo Oświęcimskie), or the Duchy of Auschwitz (German: Herzogtum Auschwitz), was one of the Duchies of Silesia in the
Duchy_of_Oświęcim
Symbol representing the word "and" (&)
(Computer Modern) fonts. In Microsoft Windows menus, labels, and other captions, the ampersand is used to denote the next letter as a keyboard shortcut
Ampersand
Historical building in India
Caption text Event Periodicity Notes All India Dance Festival aka Nishagandhi festival Annual Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters Annual Literature
Kanakakkunnu_Palace
Revolutionary municipality (1796)
The Republic of Alba (Italian: Repubblica di Alba) was a revolutionary municipality proclaimed on 26 April 1796, in Alba, Piedmont, when the town was taken
Republic_of_Alba
Measurement of letters in a typeface
increase again for optical sizes of fonts designed for small print, such as captions, so that they can be clearly read printed small. High x-heights on display
X-height
Japanese manga series
Caption text Issue Copies Sold As Of (Date) Volume 1 22,146 June 14, 2009 Volume 2 Volume 3 44,737 February 14, 2010 Volume 4 69,471 August 15, 2010 Volume
Happy_Marriage!?
Markup language for documents
elements align (Deprecated. use CSS instead.) attribute on legend and caption elements align (Deprecated. use CSS instead.) and bgcolor (Deprecated.
HTML
Style of animation mixing text and motion
vampire, he is in a pool and the camera is underwater. The caption appears as blood red text that dissolves as blood would in water. Kinetic typography
Kinetic_typography
Piece of digital media featuring an image with text superimposed
humorous captions. These characters can include "Bad Luck Brian", "Success Kid", and "Scumbag Steve", among others. Bad Luck Brian image captions are used
Image_macro
Captions embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry tituli are Medieval Latin captions embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry, which describe the 58 scenes portrayed on the tapestry. These
Bayeux_Tapestry_tituli
of programs on individual stations. From "time clearance". Closed captioning Text version of a program's dialogue overlaid on the screen by an equipped
Glossary of broadcasting terms
Glossary_of_broadcasting_terms
Coral atoll in the Marshall Islands
Ailinglaplap or Ailinglapalap (Marshallese: Aelōn̄ļapļap, [ɑelʲɤŋ(ɤ)lˠɑbʲ(ɛ)lˠɑpʲ]) is a coral atoll of 56 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative
Ailinglaplap_Atoll
1939–1940 Soviet puppet state in occupied Karelia
The Finnish Democratic Republic (Finnish: Suomen kansanvaltainen tasavalta or Suomen kansantasavalta, Swedish: Demokratiska Republiken Finland, Russian:
Finnish_Democratic_Republic
1941–1944 occupation of Guam by Empire of Japan
The Japanese occupation of Guam was the period in the history of Guam between 1941 and 1944 when Imperial Japanese forces occupied Guam during World War
Japanese_occupation_of_Guam
The Eastern Roman Empire was ruled by the Leonid dynasty from AD 457, the accession of Leo I, to 518, the death of Anastasius I. The rule of the Leonid
Byzantine Empire under the Leonid dynasty
Byzantine_Empire_under_the_Leonid_dynasty
Part of World War II
The Japanese occupation of the Solomon Islands was the period in the history of Solomon Islands between 1942 and 1945 when Imperial Japanese forces occupied
Japanese occupation of the Solomon Islands
Japanese_occupation_of_the_Solomon_Islands
1463–1867 feudal state in Georgia
The Principality of Mingrelia (Georgian: სამეგრელოს სამთავრო, romanized: samegrelos samtavro), also known as Odishi and as Samegrelo, was a historical
Principality_of_Mingrelia
Principality in the Holy Roman Empire
Anhalt-Zerbst was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the House of Ascania, with its residence at Zerbst in present-day Saxony-Anhalt. It
Principality_of_Anhalt-Zerbst
Medieval Armenian principality
The Principality of Khachen (Modern Armenian: Խաչենի իշխանություն, Khach’eni ishkhanut’yun) was a medieval Armenian principality on the territory of historical
Principality_of_Khachen
Comic book story arc in Spider-Man
"Torment" is a comic-book story arc written and illustrated by Todd McFarlane that encompasses the first five issues of an ongoing Spider-Man series. It
Torment_(comics)
Protected state of the United Kingdom in Polynesia
The Kingdom of Tonga was a protected state of the United Kingdom from 1900 to 1970, when its protectorate status was removed. Tonga became a British protected
Kingdom_of_Tonga_(1900–1970)
State of the Holy Roman Empire (1567–1806)
The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt (German: Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a younger branch of the House
Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt
Landgraviate_of_Hesse-Darmstadt
IP. Real-time text is streaming text that is transmitted as it is produced, allowing text to be used conversationally. Real-time text is defined in ITU-T
Text_over_IP
Dam in Newaygo County, Michigan
30 data pages, 1 photo caption page HAER No. MI-100-A, "Hardy Hydroelectric Plant, Embankment", 4 photos, 7 data pages, 1 photo caption page HAER No. MI-100-B
Hardy_Dam
Short-lived Serb breakaway region in Yugoslavia
The SAO of Romanija (Serbian Cyrillic: САО Романија, Serbian: SAO Romanija) was a self-proclaimed ethnic Serb autonomous region within SR Bosnia and Herzegovina
SAO_Romanija
Image-generating deep learning model
of images with text captions scraped from the Internet. Its role is to "understand and rank" DALL-E's output by predicting which caption from a list of
DALL-E
Provisional government led by the Tongmenghui from 1912–1913
The provisional government (Chinese: 臨時政府) of the Republic of China (Chinese: 中華民國) was established by Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing after the defeat of the Qing
Provisional government of the Republic of China (1912–1913)
Provisional_government_of_the_Republic_of_China_(1912–1913)
CAPTION TEXT
CAPTION TEXT
Boy/Male
English
Captain.
Boy/Male
Australian, British, English
He who is in Charge
Boy/Male
Latin
Intelligent; shrewd.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Campton in Bedfordshire, named in Old English as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) by the Camel river’ (a lost river-name of Celtic origin).
Girl/Female
Greek
Pure.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Captain
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin) and French
English (of Norman origin) and French : status name for a professional champion (see Champion, Kemp), from the Norman French form campion.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a chantry priest (or the servant of one), a priest endowed to sing mass daily on behalf of the souls of the dead (Late Latin capellanus). Compare Chaplin.Americanized spelling of Swiss German Kaeppelin, a diminutive of Kappel.
Boy/Male
British, English, Indian, Russian
Work
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Norfolk named Caston, from an unattested Old English personal name Catt or the Old Norse personal name Káti + Old English tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Boy/Male
Arabic
Prudence; Caution
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Armed with a Bow
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places, in Staffordshire and North Yorkshire, named Calton, from Old English calf ‘calf’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. There are also numerous minor places so named, notably in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and they may also have given rise to the surname in some instances.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : metonymic occupational name for a hood maker, from Old Norman French caprun, Old French chaperon ‘hood or cap (worn by the nobility)’.French : from a Picard and southern form of chaperon (see 1, above).
Surname or Lastname
English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : most probably a variant of Nathan, altered by folk etymology under the influence of the English vocabulary word nation.
Girl/Female
British, English, Latin, Spanish
Caution; Discretion; Prudent
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places called Caton, in Derbyshire and Lancashire. The former is probably named with the Old English personal name or byname Cada (see Cade) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter is from the Old Norse byname Káti (see Cates) + tūn.English and French : from a pet form of Catlin.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the various places called Catton, for example in Derbyshire, Norfolk, and North Yorkshire, all apparently from an Old English byname Catta meaning ‘cat’ or Old Norse Káti meaning ‘boy’ + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.English : from a pet form of Catherine.
Boy/Male
Arabic
Caution; Care
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places in North Yorkshire called Cayton, near Scarborough and in South Stainley; both are named from the Old English personal name Cǣga + Old English tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
CAPTION TEXT
CAPTION TEXT
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Permanent; Who is Made Forever
Boy/Male
Arabic
The Biblical Jesus is the English Language Equivalent; A Prophet's Name
Girl/Female
Tamil
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Practising Penance; Lord Rama
Girl/Female
Muslim
Jewels
Girl/Female
Hebrew
Peace.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Examination; Test
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Sherilyn, SHARALYN means "darling lake."
Surname or Lastname
English, of Welsh origin
English, of Welsh origin : variant spelling of Voyles.
Girl/Female
Indian
Name of River
CAPTION TEXT
CAPTION TEXT
CAPTION TEXT
CAPTION TEXT
CAPTION TEXT
n.
The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process.
n.
An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
n.
A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.
n.
One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc.
n.
That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed.
n.
A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.
v. t.
To castrate; to make a capon of.
n.
Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
n.
A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team.
n.
By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain.
a.
Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours.
a.
Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
v. t.
To act as captain of; to lead.
n.
A caviling; a sophism.
n.
Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.
n.
The heading of a chapter, section, or page.
n.
A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.
n.
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.