captain vs minister

captain

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • To act as captain 

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

minister

noun
  • A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service). 

  • A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church. 

  • A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. 

  • In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador. 

verb
  • To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service. 

  • to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship 

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