To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
To act as captain
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 work or operate, especially mechanically.
To strike gently; to pat.
To make a tick or checkmark.
To go on trust, or credit.
To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
To give tick; to trust.
To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
Credit, trust.
The whinchat.
A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
A short period of time, particularly a second.
A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
Ticking.
A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.