Antonym: free. Similar words: captivate, captivation, captivating, adaptive, caption, captious, receptive, deceptive. Meaning: ['kæptɪv] n. 1. a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war 2. an animal that is confined 3. a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion. adj. 1. in captivity 2. giving or marked by complete attention to.
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91 Television advertisers can exploit a captive audience.
92 The most detail behavior ethogram of adult and nestling of captive Oriental white stork was recorded.
93 And so the staff is a captive audience for their manager's jazz-band gigs, elegies over his approach shot to the 17th green, or any other avocation mistaken as part of the vocation.
94 To be Shanghaied meant to be drugged, kidnapped and forced become a captive deckhand on an outbound ship.
95 In 2 Kings 5, we find two people who had bad things happen to them. First is a young girl from Israel who was taken captive by the Syrian army.
96 Ren became enamored with Jessica's fiery spirit, and held her captive as his own personal guest.
97 Shek Office told reporters that the venture take captive by the two elder affairs should be decided, on the one hand , Germany headquarters, on the other hand , Peterson take captive La themselves.
98 With a rush of panic, he realized the rope harness held him captive underwater.
99 You allured him with beauty, made him captive, and crowned the formless death with fadeless form.
100 The enterprise mainly manufactures bolt cutters, pipe wrenches, captive hand tools most other pipeline products, including pipe clamp production scale ranks first in the country counterparts.
101 He became a captive , bound to the chariot social existence.
102 Perhaps most important to the marketer is the captive nature of the audience.
103 In the Apocrypha , a captive in Babylon who was falsely accused of adultery and was rescued by Daniel.
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104 A new method was developed to analyze the population age groups of the captive Alpine musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster) based on the visible-near infrared reflectance spectra of their feces.
105 The bash shell uses the tab key for command completion, so it can be handy to have a captive tab character that you can use when you want a real tab.
106 You are to save the poor female poodles that were stolen and hold captive by mean dog enemies.
107 The patterns of activity rhythms of captive Amur tigers did not show any seasonal difference.
108 Book Reviews: 1. Uromastyx. Natural History, Captive Care, Breeding 2. The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Western Sahara 3. Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Japan.
109 The last captive Quagga, a mare, died on 12 August 1883 in Amsterdam Zoo, where she had lived since 9 May 1867.
110 I saw my first whale in a safari park outside London—a captive orca named Ramu—back in the early 1970s.
111 A kin slayer and fugitive, Tyrion assumes manifold roles in "Dragons": mummer, soldier, paymaster, slave, river rat and captive.
112 Wallace sets about reprogramming his captive bunnies to shun vegetables.
113 During the Nadd uprising, Arca Jeth was held captive by the vile King Ommin.
114 The team, from Hayashibara Great Ape Research Institute in Okayama, Japan, lived and even slept in the same enclosures as the captive chimps, to ensure they would be there when they gave birth.
115 Even the study of captive red goral was not sufficient, which focused mainly on the nutrition, reproduction, life history and other biology aspects.
116 The push rod can be supplied free or captive, with female M5 thread, an M5 rod eye, or dome end, Captive push rods can be sprung loaded, in either direction, on sensors up to 250 mm of travel.
117 Lying in my hospital bed, I was a captive audience to her uninteresting stories.
118 Or at least the relief that some must have felt. For others, taken captive by wild tribesmen then sold to merchants, the town's infamous slave market would only be the latest stage of their nightmare.
119 Griffin - Sets forth the property of a valorous soldier whose magnanimity is such that he will dare all dangers, and even death itself, rather than become captive.
120 At the same time, the captive breeding of Chinese water deer is becoming popular in China, but researches on reproductive behavior, genetic background of captive Chinese water deer is still lack.
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