What's the difference between caption and description?

Caption


Definition:

  • (n.) A caviling; a sophism.
  • (n.) The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process.
  • (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.) The heading of a chapter, section, or page.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So again, they did what they had to and should do.” Aakjaer’s Facebook account also contained other derogatory references to eastern Europeans, a message of support for the right-wing Dansk Folkeparti’s views about border control and a photograph of six pigs with a caption: “It’s time to deploy our secret weapons against Islamists.” When Aakjaer was contacted by the Guardian in January, he said that he was not “a racist at all”.
  • (2) The BBC News Channel had it right when it captioned its live coverage “Cameron immigration speech”.
  • (3) The caption blamed "the dogs of the Interior [ministry]", and claimed that incendiary bombs had been fired at the building by police, "causing a very big fire" that "burned everything to ashes".
  • (4) This act and the physical fact of it are what the pictures principally announce, even if the caption claims that they are impressions of the countryside around Rome and that this is what connects them to the Poussin canvas.
  • (5) Toyota, said the closing caption, is working towards making a car that will "clean the air" as it drives.
  • (6) Stimuli were videotaped sentences that differed on half of the trials from a captioned target sentence by one viseme embedded in the middle of the sentence.
  • (7) I write this because the filmstar Keira Knightley married in France last week, and the news that she recycled (or, in human phrasing, wore her wedding dress for a second time ) was greeted by the media as a sign that Bridezilla is dead, even though I am sure it thought no such thing – but such are the imperatives of picture editors in need of captions.
  • (8) Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who had earlier expressed reservations about forcing Sterling to sell the Clippers , said he supported Silver's actions "100%" and posted a photo of the NBA's constitution on Instagram with the caption: "It exists for a reason."
  • (9) Their deepest worry should be that the clarity of that front-page image – a photo that requires no caption – might already have defined Labour’s leader with large sections of the public.
  • (10) Given all of the Department of State cables that I read, the fact that most of the cables were unclassified, and that all the cables have a SIPDIS caption.
  • (11) It's captioned "shoppy shoppy" and "#goldrush", but a photograph whose purpose is to illustrate plenty seems instead to depict a void.
  • (12) The original picture caption referred to "tar sandhills" in Nebraska.
  • (13) Egypt’s next president will come from this generation,” wrote the medic in his online caption for the video.
  • (14) Photograph and caption: terriblerealestateagentphotos.com When civil servant Helen O'Shea, 58, and her husband Peter, 59, who works for the International Cricket Council, marketed their home in Shepperton, Surrey, on 26 June, they were determined to present it at its best.
  • (15) On Thursday her daughter posted a photo on Instagram captioned "Mom's badass new hobby."
  • (16) The earlier photograph showed boarded-up houses in Liverpool, and had a caption implying that the city had a majority of leave voters.
  • (17) In fact, no UK ISP has ever blocked a private torrent site before.” Barack Obama’s support for net neutrality sets precedent for the rest of the world • The headline, subheading and caption on this article were amended on 28 November.
  • (18) It was captioned “A West End shopper argues with a protester”, but that’s not what happened at all: I was trying to calm him down.
  • (19) The original included a photograph which erroneously included Glenn Close in the caption.
  • (20) Anyone who thinks everything can be reduced to data is probably deluding themselves.” A picture caption in this article was edited on 4 August 2015.

Description


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  • (n.) A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
  • (n.) A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
  • (2) A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects.
  • (3) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
  • (4) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
  • (5) This paper provides a description of the cerebellar-vestibular-determined (CV) neurological and electronystagmographic (ENG) parameters characterizing 4,000 patients with learning disabilities.
  • (6) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
  • (7) Studies of diarrhoeal disease have been limited mainly to descriptive epidemiological investigations.
  • (8) In our laboratory we have contributed to these studies with the description of: a) the regulatory activity of different neuroendocrine substances on interferon-gamma production; b) the characterization of the immune regulation exercised by the muscarinic cholinergic system; c) the in vitro activity of the indoleamines, serotonin and melatonin on the immune response, and the production of these indoleamines by lymphocytes and monocytes, thus establishing a model of paracrine regulation.
  • (9) Five psychrophilic and five mesophilic phage were selected for a description of some of their biological properties.
  • (10) The molar refractivity has been shown to be a superior parameter for the description of the activity of sulphonamides than the sum of electronegativities of atoms making up a heterocyclic substituent in the sulphonamide molecule and molecular weight of the substituent.
  • (11) However, it was concluded that the biochemical models fail to give a complete description of photosynthesis in plants using the C4-dicarboxylic acid cycle.
  • (12) This review of androgenetic alopecia (AA) in women provides a summary of hair physiology and biochemistry, a general discussion of AA, and a brief description of other types of hair loss in women.
  • (13) The calculation, based on analytical expression derived by Cowley, has been shown previously to give an almost quantitative description of kinematical diffraction from linear chain systems.
  • (14) This short paper includes extracts from the original translations of Leeuwenhoek's descriptions of the histology of teeth, investigates his findings and demonstrates that in addition to describing dentinal tubules, he may have identified the presence of calcospherites within that tissue.
  • (15) We report a descriptive study of 56 cases of HIV infection in a primary care center to evaluate its impact on the population on care, the practices at risk, the associated infections and the difficulties for control.
  • (16) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.
  • (17) A brief description of suggested treatment and management regimens for the various forms of AIDS-related psychopathology then follows.
  • (18) Lazarus' phenomenological theory of stress and coping provided the basis for this descriptive study of perceived threats after myocardial infarction (MI).
  • (19) A descriptive case study approach was used to analyze findings.
  • (20) This is the first description of a restriction enzyme from a mycoplasma.