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.
Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
(of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
Lower in rank, status, or quality.
On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
Of low rank, standard or quality.
Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
Below the horizon.
Printed in subscript.
An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.
A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.