captioning

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noun

The act of assigning a caption.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of caption.
nouncaptioning (plural captionings)

plural captionings

  1. The act of assigning a caption.

    Instead of dismissing all the differing readings her poems have been given, we need to account for their possibility in terms of the multiple captionings to which her poetry lends itself […]

    2019, Daniel Cottom, Ravishing Tradition: Cultural Forces and Literary History, page 103
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APA

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“captioning.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/captioning. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “captioning,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/captioning.

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