captain vs follower

captain

noun
  • A maître d', a headwaiter. 

  • An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel. 

  • The head boy of a school. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To act as captain 

  • To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team. 

follower

noun
  • One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer. 

  • A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly. 

  • A tool used to remove the core from a pin-tumbler lock without causing the driver pins and springs to fall out. 

  • Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually follow the ball around the ground rather than occupying a fixed position. 

  • An imitator, who follows another's example. 

  • A machine part receiving motion from another. 

  • A pursuer. 

  • An account holder who subscribes to see content from another account on a social media platform. 

  • One who follows, comes after another. 

  • A man courting a maidservant; suitor. 

  • Something that comes after another thing. 

  • One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc. 

  • Young cattle. 

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