To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
To act as captain
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 carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
To press together or collect in numbers
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
To push, to press, to shove.
To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
To fill by pressing or thronging together
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
A fiddle.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.