captain vs pop

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. 

pop

verb
  • To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle. 

  • To burst (something) with a popping sound. 

  • To give birth. 

  • To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound. 

  • To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses. 

  • To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm. 

  • To ejaculate; to orgasm. 

  • To pawn (something) (to raise money). 

  • To hit (something or someone). 

  • To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack. 

  • To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement. 

  • To perform the popping style of dance. 

  • To swallow or consume (especially a tablet of a drug, sometimes extended to other small items such as sweets or candy). 

  • To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open. 

  • To make a short trip or visit. 

  • To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart. 

  • To arrest. 

noun
  • Something that stands out or is distinctive to the mind or senses. 

  • A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson. 

  • A bird, the European redwing. 

  • A quantity dispensed; a portion; apiece. 

  • A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. 

  • A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle. 

  • An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop. 

  • The removal of a data item from the top of a stack. 

  • One's father. 

  • A small, immature peanut, boiled as a snack. 

  • Pop music. 

  • A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop. 

  • The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle. 

adj
  • Popular. 

intj
  • Used to represent a loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle. 

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