captain vs station

captain

verb
  • To act as captain 

  • To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team. 

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. 

station

verb
  • To put in place to perform military duty. 

  • To put in place to perform a task. 

noun
  • A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers. 

  • The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion. 

  • Standing; rank; position. 

  • A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing. 

  • The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres. 

  • A regular stopping place for ground transportation. 

  • An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc. 

  • A place used for broadcasting radio or television. 

  • Any of the Stations of the Cross. 

  • A gas station, service station. 

  • The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat. 

  • A place where some object is provided. 

  • A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task. 

  • A military base. 

  • An official building from which police or firefighters operate. 

  • A ground transportation depot. 

  • A very large sheep or cattle farm. 

  • The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion. 

  • A broadcasting entity. 

  • Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path. 

  • Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment. 

  • A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay. 

  • In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside. 

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