To act as captain
To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
The head boy of a school.
A maître d', a headwaiter.
A chief or leader.
An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
The leader of a group of workers.
To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
A distinguished professorship at a university.
The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.