A chief or leader.
An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
The head boy of a school.
A maître d', a headwaiter.
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 act as captain
To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
One having authority to direct.
The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs
Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
Any person who leads or directs.
The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
One who goes first.
A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.