What's the difference between caption and quote?

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.

Quote


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.
  • (v. t.) To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.
  • (v. t.) To name the current price of.
  • (v. t.) To notice; to observe; to examine.
  • (v. t.) To set down, as in writing.
  • (n.) A note upon an author.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (2) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
  • (3) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
  • (4) Quoting the BBC-commissioned survey of more than 2,000 adults, Lyons said they had been given six choices what to do with the licence fee surplus once digital switchover was complete.
  • (5) Her success has not been universally welcomed - anonymous colleagues are occasionally quoted in the media portraying her as "ambitious" and "bossy".
  • (6) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
  • (7) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
  • (8) Kerry presented Lavrov with a dossier of quotes from Russian media that “do not help improve Russian-American relations”, according to Russian television.
  • (9) This has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," Koch spokespeople were quoted as telling the congressman's staff members in a May 20 letter that Waxman sent to Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the Energy and Commerce Committee chair, and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who chairs the Energy and Power Subcommittee.
  • (10) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.
  • (11) "We are probably steering towards Russia turning off its gas provision," he was quoted as saying.
  • (12) However, LaBoeuf's subsequent apologies were themselves discovered to have been copied from other sources ; his quoting of Cantona's lines are entirely true to form.
  • (13) At the end of the article the Department for Work and Pensions is quoted as saying that it’s “misleading to link food bank use to benefit delays and sanctions”.
  • (14) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
  • (15) A 3 week immunization schedule is suggested where BCG and C. parvum are used as immunotherapeutic agents, in the doses quoted.
  • (16) A member of the P2PFA ThinCats ThinCats logo Date launched January 2011 Quoted returns Lenders can earn "between 6% and 13%".
  • (17) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
  • (18) These concentrations were less than the routinely used half-saturated solutions and different from the sometimes quoted one-third-saturated solutions.
  • (19) US Banker magazine, which ranked her the fifth most powerful female banker in the US, has quoted her as admitting to preaching a work-life balance but admitting: "I don't have much of one myself."
  • (20) "Strong voices from across the Republican spectrum agree with the fundamental point – the nation, and the GOP, need to act on immigration.” • This article was amended on 31 January 2014 to correct the attribution of a quote.