| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb captive.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (captively) | 1. Adverbial inflection of the adjective captive.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (captive) | 1. To take prisoner; to capture.[Websters]. 2. Base verb from the following inflections: captiving, captived, captives, captiver, captivers, captivingly and captivedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CAPTIVING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: captive
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Bible | 1: A prisoner of war. Such were usually treated with great cruelty by the heathen nations. They were kept for slaves, and often sold; but this was a modification of the ancient cruelty, and a substitute for putting them to death Although the treatment of captives by the Jews seems sometimes to be cruel, it was very much milder than that of the heathen, and was mitigated, as far as possible in the circumstances, by their civil code. (references) | 2: Captive one taken in war. Captives were often treated with great cruelty and indignity (1 Kings 20:32; Josh. 10:24; Judg. 1:7; 2 Sam. 4:12; Judg. 8:7; 2 Sam. 12:31; 1 Chr. 20:3). When a city was taken by assault, all the men were slain, and the women and children carried away captive and sold as slaves (Isa. 20; 47:3; 2 Chr. 28:9-15; Ps. 44:12; Joel 3:3), and exposed to the most cruel treatment (Nah. 3:10; Zech. 14:2; Esther 3:13; 2 Kings 8:12; Isa. 13:16, 18). Captives were sometimes carried away into foreign countries, as was the case with the Jews (Jer. 20:5; 39:9, 10; 40:7). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | |
| Dream Interpretation | 1: To dream that you are a captive, denotes that you may have treachery to deal with, and if you cannot escape, that injury and misfortune will befall you. 2: To dream of taking any one captive, you will join yourself to pursuits and persons of lowest status. 3: For a young woman to dream that she is a captive, denotes that she will have a husband who will be jealous of her confidence in others; or she may be censured for her indiscretion. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Law | CAPTIVE. By this term is understood one who has been taken; it is usually applied to prisoners of war. (q.v.) Although he bas lost his liberty, a captive does not by his captivity lose his civil rights. (references) | ||
| Sports & Leisure | Some patrons of movie houses feel that they have paid their money for entertainment and do not want to be part of a -- audience for advertising. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: captive
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Captive bead | A captive bead ring (CBR) (also ball closure ring or less frequently captive ball ring) is a common example of body piercing jewelry. (references) | ||
| Captive bolt pistol | A captive bolt pistol (stunner) is a device used for stunning animals prior to slaughter. The stunning is essential to prevent the pain and suffering of the animal while sticking (bleeding). (references) | ||
| Captive breeding | Captive breeding is the process of breeding endangered animals by capturing them from their natural environment, breeding them in restricted conditions in zoos and other conservation facilities, and releasing them back to the wild when the population stabilizes and the threat to the animal in the wild is lessened or removed. (references) | ||
| Captive carry | Captive carry refers to a flight by a mothership (carrier aircraft) and spaceplane, rocket, or missile paired together in a parasite aircraft configuration. The two are not separated in flight, as would occur during an air launch. Captive carry flights are normally used to test out new aircraft before they are launched under their own power, as well as for transportation, as in the case of NASA ferrying operations for the Space Shuttle, involving Boeing 747-100 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. (references) | ||
| Captive finance company | A finance company owned by a manufacturer to finance dealers' inventories or to make loans to consumers buying the company's products. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Captive import | Captive import is an automobile marketing term denoting a foreign-built vehicle which is sold and serviced by a domestic manufacturer through its own dealer body. (references) | ||
| Captive Nations Week | Captive Nations Week, a week aimed at raising public awareness of the oppression of nations under the control of Communist and other non-democratic governments, was declared by a Congressional resolution signed into law (Public Law 86-90) by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959. President Eisenhower, and every successive U.S. President up to the current administration of President George W. Bush, has declared the third week of July to be Captive Nations Week. (references) | ||
| Captive NTFS | Captive NTFS is an open-source project within the Linux programming community, started by Jan Kratochvil, to create a "software wrapper" around the original Microsoft Windows NTFS file system driver. By taking this approach captive NTFS aims to provide safe write support to NTFS partitions. (references) | ||
| Captive Pursuit | Captive Pursuit is the sixth episode of the first season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (references) | ||
| Captive Queens | Captive Queens is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. The game is so named because the queens are being "enclosed" as the foundations are built. (references) | ||
| Captive Rover | A captive rover is an amateur radio mobile station equipped to operate on one or more VHF, UHF and Microwave bands during ARRL VHF or UHF contests who is forced to operate in locations that he does not want to operate and contacts only one other contestant. It's not clear if a captive rover is real, or a figment of the imagination of stations who often lose the contest. (references) | ||
| Captive supply | Captive supply is a term for that part of the supply that is not owned by a company but is used by the company to maximize its own profits often at the unknowing expense of those who actually own those supplies. This is usually a characteristic of a market that is dominated by one firm or a few firms and implicit collusion between those firms. Often captive supply is called a beneficial market agreement by those controlling the supply but the actions of those controlling that supply reveal otherwise. Captive supply is used to subvert the natural forces of market price determinination to accrue more economic benefits to those who control it. (references) | ||
| Liberation: Captive 2 | Liberation was an Amiga game written by Byte Engineers and published by Mindscape in 1994. It was a sequel to Captive. (references) | ||
| The Captive Heart | The Captive Heart is a 1946 British war drama, directed by Basil Dearden. (references) | ||
| The Captive Temple | The Captive Temple by Jude Watson is the seventh in a series of young reader novels called Jedi Apprentice. All the books in the series are written by Jude Watson, except for the first book, The Rising Force, which was written by Dave Wolverton. The series explores the adventures of Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi prior to Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. (references) | ||
| To lead captive | To carry or bring into captivity. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: captive
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| CAPTIVE ACCOUNT | Math | A guest's user account in a computer system for any user to access without special procedures (such as registration). The account puts the user directly into an application, without access to the rest of the system on which the application is hosted. ESDIS IMS Lexicon. (references) | |
| Captive coal | Energy | 1: Coal produced to satisfy the needs of the mine owner, or of a parent, subsidiary, or other affiliate of the mine owner (for example, steel companies and electricity generators), rather than for open market sale. (references) | |
| 2: Coal produced and consumed by the mine operator, a subsidiary, or parent company (for example, steel companies and electric utilities). (references) | |||
| Captive customer | Energy | 1: A customer who does not have realistic alternatives to buying power from the local utility, even if that customer had the legal right to buy from competitors. (references) | |
| 2: A customer whodoes not have realistic alternatives to buying power from the localutility, even if that customer had the legal right to buy fromcompetitors. (references) | |||
| Captive firing | Aerospace | Test firing of a propulsion system, in which the engine is operated at full or partial thrust while restrained in a test stand; the system is completely instrumented, and data to verify design and demonstrate performance are obtained. (references) | |
| Captive firing | Military | (DOD, NATO) A firing test of short duration, conducted with the missile propulsion system operating while secured to a test stand. (references) | |
| Captive foundry | Metallurgy | A foundry that is an element of a manufacturing establishment or group and where castings are usually made for this establishment or for the parent companies. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Captive imports | Energy | Products produced overseas specifically for domestic manufacturers. (references) | |
| Captive mine | Mining | Aust. A mine that produces coal or mineral for use by the same company. (references) | |
| Captive public transport passenger | Transportation | A person who does not have a private vehicle available or who cannot drive and who must use public transport in order to travel. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Captive refinery MTBE plants | Energy | MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether) production facilities primarily located within refineries. These integrated refinery units produce MTBE from Fluid Cat Cracker isobutylene with production dedicated to internal gasoline blending requirements. (references) | |
| Captive refinery oxygenate plants | Energy | Oxygenate production facilities located within or adjacent to a refinery complex. (references) | |
| Captive supply | Agriculture | Products that manufacturers or processors own or contract to purchase for future delivery so as to have a predictable source of raw materials for their plants. In agriculture, the term often is used, for example, to refer to the cattle that beef packers own or contract to purchase 2 weeks or more before slaughter. Examples of such contracts include an exclusive agreement with an individual feedlot in which the price is based on market prices at time of slaughter; or a contract in which the price is specified in advance or is based on some other formula. At issue is the effect that captive supplies have on prices paid to cattle producers. (references) | |
| Captive test | Aerospace | A holddown test of a propulsion subsystem, rocket engine or motor. Distinguished from a flight test. (references) | |
| Captive tonnage | Mining | The quantity of mineral product from a mine produced solely for use by theparent company or subsidiary. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: captive
| 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 | |
| CAPTIVE | English | Collaborative Authoring Production and Transmission of Interactive Video for Education | Computing | |
| CAPP | English | Captive atmosphere partial pressure | N/A | |
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