captain vs supply

captain

noun
  • A maître d', a headwaiter. 

  • An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel. 

  • The head boy of a school. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To act as captain 

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

supply

noun
  • Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute. 

  • An amount of something supplied. 

  • An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures. 

  • Provisions. 

  • The act of supplying. 

adv
  • Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness. 

verb
  • To furnish or equip with. 

  • To fill up, or keep full. 

  • To act as a substitute. 

  • To serve instead of; to take the place of. 

  • To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of. 

  • To provide (something), to make (something) available for use. 

  • To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of. 

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