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Definition: Captor |
CaptorNoun1. A person who captures and holds people or animals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "captor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1825. (references) |
Etymology: Captor \Cap"tor\, noun. [Latin expression, cather (of animals), from caper to take.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CAPTOR | English | Captive torpedo | Military & Defense |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: CaptorSynonym: capturer (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: liberator (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Taking | Taker, captor. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Captor |
| English words defined with "captor": surpriser. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "captor": Shobi. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Captor" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (captor, taker). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This is your captor speaking. (Under Siege 2: Dark Territory; writing credit: Richard Hatem) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Captor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Captor" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 45 | 50,900 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "captor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kapës (hooker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | човек който хваща пленник, кораб който взема приза, капер (marque, privateer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 俘虏 (Captive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | uchvatitel (invader, usurper), kdo bere do zajetí, únosce (abducent, abductor, kidnapper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | CAPTOR (captive torpedo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | captor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اسیرکننده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fänger (backstop, catcher, fielder, Hunter, sealer, trapper, whaler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συλλαμβάνων (capturer), αιχμαλωτίζων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שבאי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | foglyul ejtõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | chi fa prigioniero. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 逮捕者 (arrestee, person arrested). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいほしゃ (arrestee, person arrested). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 체포자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | taareyder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aptorcay capturador, captor (taker), apreensor. (various references) corsar (buccaneer, corsair, filibuster, freebooter, picaroon, pirate, sea rover), tâlhar (brigand, cracksman, footpad, gangster, harrier, highwayman, lurcher, miscreant, robber, rogue, scoundrel, sharp, thief), pirat (buccaneer, corsair, filibuster, freebooter, picaroon, pirate, sea rover, sea wolf), persoanã care ia pe cineva în captivitate. (various references) взявший в плен. (various references) zarobljivač. (various references) apresador. (various references) tillfångatagare. (various references) tutan kimse, hükümet izniyle savaşan korsan gemisi, esir alan kimse. (various references) той, хто захопив у полон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "captor": captors. (additional references) | |
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"Captor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: captoe, Capton, captur, capturn, cataora, catori, catur, Cepror, ceptor, Chapot, Chatoor, citor, Copnor, katorgu, septor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "captor" (pronounced ka"pter) |
| 4 | -a" p t er | adapter, adaptor, apter, chapter, raptor, subchapter. |
| 3 | -p t er | helicopter, interceptor, lithotripter, receptor, sceptre, sculptor, sumpter, velociraptor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cartop. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: actor, aport, coapt, copra, taroc. | |
-2 letters: arco, atop, capo, carp, cart, coat, crap, crop, orca, pact, part, port, prao, prat, proa, rapt, rato, rota, taco, taro, tarp, tora, torc, trap, trop. | |
-3 letters: act, apt, arc, art, cap, car, cat, cop, cor, cot, oar, oat, oca, opt, ora, orc, ort, pac, par, pat, pot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: apricot, aprotic, caltrop, captors, carport, compart, parotic. | |
+2 letters: acceptor, apricots, atrophic, calthrop, caltrops, carports, comparts, coparent, copastor, copatron, crackpot, impactor, mercapto, operatic, outcaper, pectoral, piscator, portance, postcard, postrace, protatic, protract, traprock, tropical. | |
+3 letters: acceptors, acropetal, ametropic, anthropic, backdropt, calthrops, capacitor, captopril, carrottop, cartopper, cataphora, catoptric, compacter, compactor, comparted, cooperate, coparents, copartner, copastors, copatrons, corporate, corposant, crackpots, crapshoot, cryptogam, cystocarp, impactors, jockstrap, operatics, outcapers, outpreach, pantropic, patchwork, patriotic, pectorals, peculator, percolate, pictogram, pictorial, piscators, piscatory, placatory, plutocrat, podiatric, portances, portapack, portulaca, postcards, postcrash, preatomic, precatory, precoital, proactive, procreant, procreate, prolactin, prostatic, protracts, psoriatic, retropack, spaceport, spectator, traprocks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 70 74 6F 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .--. - --- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110000 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a p t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0070 0074 006F 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376782868184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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