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.
An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.
To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.
To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.