A chief or leader.
An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
The head boy of a school.
A maître d', a headwaiter.
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 captain
To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
Influence or authority over something.
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box (abbreviated Ctrl).
A control group or control experiment.
A checkpoint along an audax route.
A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
(construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
to hold in check, to curb, to restrain
To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.