captain

[capĀ·tain]

A captain is the person in charge of a group. The captain of a high school soccer team is usually an elected or appointed leader.

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A head, or chief officer

Noun
a diningroom attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers

Noun
the pilot ins charge of an airship

Noun
the naval officer in command of a military ship

Noun
a policeman in charge of a precinct

Noun
an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant

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Noun
the leader of a group of people; "a captain of industry"

Noun
an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship

Verb
be the captain of a sports team


n.
A head, or chief officer

n.
The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service.

n.
An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army.

n.
By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain.

n.
The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel.

n.
One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc.

n.
The foreman of a body of workmen.

n.
A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team.

n.
A military leader; a warrior.

v. t.
To act as captain of; to lead.

a.
Chief; superior.


Captain

Cap"tain , n. [OE. capitain, captain, OF. capitain, F. capitaine (cf. Sp. capitan, It. capitano), LL. capitaneus, capitanus, fr. L. caput the head. See under Chief, and cf. Chieftain.] 1. A head, or chief officer; as: (a) The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service. (b) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the ermy. (c) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain. (d) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel. (e) One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc. (f) The foreman of a body of workmen. (g) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team.
A trainband captain eke was he.
The Rhodian captain, relying on . . . the lightness of his vessel, passed, in open day, through all the guards.
2. A military leader; a warrior.
Foremost captain of his time.
Captain general. (a) The commander in chief of an army or armies, or of the militia. (b) The Spanish governor of Cuba and its dependent islands. -- Captain lieutenant, a lieutenant with the rank and duties of captain but with a lieutenant's pay, -- as in the first company of an English regiment.

Captain

Cap"tain , v. t. To act as captain of; to lead. [R.]
Men who captained or accompanied the exodus from existing forms. Lowell.

Captain

Cap"tain, a. Chief; superior. [R.]
captain jewes in the carcanet.

A head, or chief officer

To act as captain of; to lead.

Chief; superior.

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Usage Examples

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

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Other Usage Examples

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

He is a very positive captain he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

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