[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

caption \cap"tion\, n. l. captio, fr. caper to take. in senses
   3 and 4, perhaps confounded in meaning with l. caput a head.
   see capacious.
   1. a caviling; a sophism. obs.
      1913 webster

            this doctrine is for caption and contradiction.
                                                  --bacon.
      1913 webster

   2. the act of taking or arresting a person by judicial
      process. r. --bouvier.
      1913 webster

   3. law 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. --bouvier.
      --wharton.
      1913 webster

   4. the heading of a chapter, section, or page. u. s.
      1913 webster
see also:
capacious 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

caption
     n 1: taking exception; especially an quibble based on a captious
          argument; "a mere caption unworthy of a reply"
     2: translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or tv program;
        usually displayed at the bottom of the screen syn: subtitle
     3: brief description accompanying an illustration syn: legend
     v : provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing
see also:
subtitle legend 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

29 moby thesaurus words for "caption":
   banner, banner head, drop head, dropline, epigraph, hanger, head,
   head up, heading, headline, jump head, legend, motto, overline,
   rubric, running head, running title, scarehead, screamer, spread,
   spreadhead, streamer, subhead, subheading, subtitle,
   superscription, title, title page, underline

[4] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

caption, practice. that part of a legal instrument, as a 'commission, 
indictment, c., which shows where, when, and by what authority it was 
taken, found or executed. as to the forms and requisites of captions, see 1 
murph. 281; 8 yerg. 514; 4 iredell, 113; 6 miss,. 469; 1 scam. 456; 5 how. 
mis. 20; 6 blackf. 299; 1 hawks, 354; 1 brev. 169. 
     2. in the english practice, when an inferior court in obedience to the 
writ of certiorari, returns an indictment into the k. b., it is annexed to 
the caption, then called a schedule, and the caption concludes with stating, 
that "it is presented in manner and form as appears in a certain indictment 
thereto annexed," and the caption and indictment are returned on separate 
parchments. 1 saund. 309, n. 2. vide dane's ab. index, h.t. 
     3. caption is another name for arrest. captive. by this term is 
understood  one who has been taken; it is usually applied to prisoners of 
war. q.v. although he has lost his liberty, a captive does not by his 
captivity lose his civil rights. 

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Auscap Splash
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http://www.auscap.com.au/, score=100, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 9:42 am

CAPTION: Oxford's annual alternative comics convention
...Read about CAPTION Noir! See the results of the Crazy Caption Comics ... "CAPTION is HISTORY". This year, Caption moved to a new venue: Wolfson ... ..
http://www.caption.org/, score=99, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 2:45 am

WGBH - Media Access Group
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http://www.wgbh.org/caption, score=96, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 7:10 pm

Closed Caption Decoder
...... Decoder. This is a closed-caption decoder with serial output based on ... The earliest version of this closed-caption decoder was developed in ... ..
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/pic/caption.html, score=95, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 2:50 am

Neopets - Caption Competition
...Every so often we will be adding a new caption competition here. The ... Note - your caption will NOT automatically be displayed, it has to be ... ..
http://www.neopets.com/games/new_caption.phtml, score=95, date indexed=November 4, 2005, 4:14 pm

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http://www.captioncolorado.com/, score=94, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 2:52 pm

Funny Pictures - Free funny pictures gallery, jokes and funny pics
...... and now it's up to YOU to give us a funny caption. This is your chance ... Funny Caption Contest - Website Tools - Add Tell-A-Friend To Your Site ... ..
http://www.caption-contest.com/, score=93, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 12:17 am

Caption First: CART: Communication Access Realtime Translation
...Caption First provides realtime captioning to the deaf and hard-of- ... Caption First is a privately held corporation that was founded in 1989 ... ..
http://www.captionfirst.com/, score=90, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 2:28 pm

WGBH - Media Access Group
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http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/captioncenter/, score=87, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 2:00 am

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