To act as captain
To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
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 work as a professor of; to teach.
To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
To declare oneself (to be something).
To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
To declare; to assert, affirm.