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 ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
To set sail; to begin a voyage.
To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
To move briskly but sedately.
To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.
To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
A sailfish.
The blade of a windmill.
The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
The conning tower of a submarine.
The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.