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.
Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
To search through (thoroughly).
To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
A lot, plenty.
A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
The act of raking.
In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
Rate of progress; pace, speed.
A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.