The phrase "capture the idea" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It means to understand or express the essence or main concept of something. Example: During the brainstorming session, the team worked together to capture the idea behind their new marketing campaign.
"I was trying to capture the idea of a haunted house," Ms. Gaskell said.
Some bands, you feel, work out what they want to sound like and then strive to capture the idea they have in their head.
Whenever someone would propose some structure — "Maybe there should be a flag or something that we try to capture?" — the idea would die a quick death.
To develop a satisfactory account of explanatory asymmetry, therefore, the logical empiricists needed to capture the idea of causal dependence by formulating conditions on genuine explanation in an acceptable idiom.
Till Guldimann of SunGard, a technology company, thinks that regulators need to borrow from other disciplines, such as computing and biology, to capture the idea of network effects between financial institutions.
He made two designs for Capanema's ministry: one idealistic, for an unobtainable site by the ocean, the other a low-rise building that somehow failed to capture the idea of the new Brazil and the new Brazilian.
I wanted to capture the idea of division, the way two completely conflicting accounts of our history – from the Troubles to where we are now – can exist side by side.
In doing this, she manages to capture the idea that Lily Bart is trapped in a cell of her own making, a cell which is the only place where someone as original as she can feel enclosed and nurtured and engaged and then destroyed.
At the heart of their discussions will be the concept of 'natural capital', which is intended to capture the idea that animal, plants and other forms of life, together with the habitats in which they live, have an intrinsic value upon which human society depends for its prosperity and well-being.
Obviously, the MPI doesn't manage to fully capture the idea of development as freedom, but it takes a fairly cogent stab at running with Mr Sen's ideas.Ms Alkire was also at pains to point out that the MPI isn't meant to replace, but rather to supplement, income-based poverty measures like the World Bank's dollar (or $1.25) per day-type measures.
