captain vs jockey

captain

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

  • To act as captain 

noun
  • 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. 

jockey

verb
  • To maneuver (something) by skill for one's advantage. 

  • To cheat or trick. 

  • To jostle by riding against. 

  • To ride (a horse) in a race. 

noun
  • A rapist. 

  • One who rides racehorses competitively. 

  • An operator of some machinery or apparatus. 

  • A prostitute's client. 

  • That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire 

  • The selling of an unsound horse for a sound price is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey 

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