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 put in place to perform military duty.
To put in place to perform a task.
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.