captain vs name

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. 

name

noun
  • Authority. 

  • Those of a certain name; a race; a family. 

  • An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability. 

  • An abusive or insulting epithet. 

  • A person (or legal person). 

  • Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking. 

  • Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing. 

  • A unique identifier, generally a string of characters. 

  • Reputation. 

verb
  • To designate for a role. 

  • To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct. 

  • To identify as relevant or important 

  • To mention, specify. 

  • To publicly implicate by name. 

  • To give a name to. 

  • To disclose the name of. 

How often have the words captain and name occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )