captain vs host

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. 

host

noun
  • A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance. 

  • One that provides a facility for an event. 

  • The consecrated bread of the Eucharist. 

  • A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite. 

  • An organism bearing certain genetic material, with respect to its cells. 

  • A large number of items; a large inventory. 

  • Any computer attached to a network. 

  • One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially. 

  • A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan. 

  • A person or organization responsible for running an event. 

  • A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels) 

verb
  • To perform the role of a host. 

  • To run software made available to a remote user or process. 

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