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captioned

captioned

4.0
People add text to explain a photo or video
  • adjective
  • /ˈkæpʃənd/
translation icon : con subtítulos
  • The video was captioned to make it accessible for people with hearing difficulties.

Examples

  • All the photos in the exhibition were captioned with interesting facts about the subjects.

  • She prefers watching captioned movies to improve her English vocabulary.

  • The photo was captioned beautifully.

  • Can you make sure the video is captioned?

  • All the photos in the exhibition were captioned with interesting facts about the subjects.

  • The video was captioned to make it accessible for people with hearing difficulties.

  • She prefers watching captioned movies to improve her English vocabulary.

Compounds

closed-captioned
1 4.3

Includes captions that viewers can turn on to read the dialogue

How Captioned

captioned
4.0
subtitle
167 3.2

Surface Forms

captioned positive

Morphology

captioned = caption (transparent) = caption + ed

Standard past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'caption' meaning 'having a caption'.

Etymology

Captioned comes from caption, which originally meant a 'heading' or 'short title' — like the 'head' of a picture or page. So when something is captioned, it has a small piece of text added to explain or describe what you see or hear.