captain vs team

captain

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

  • To act as captain 

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. 

team

verb
  • To convey or haul with a team. 

  • To go together well; to harmonize. 

  • To form a group, as for sports or work. 

  • To give work to a gang under a subcontractor. 

  • To form together into a team. 

noun
  • A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. 

  • Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work. 

  • A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus. 

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