To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
To act as captain
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.
To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
To enroll (into service).
To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
To gather or round up livestock.
An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.
A collection of peafowl. (not a term used in zoology)
An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
Synonym of mustee