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.
To act as captain
To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
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.
Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
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.