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 do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
To embroider with thread.
To cause to ferment.
To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
To shape, form, or improve a material.
Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
Followed by as. Said of one's job title
To behave in a certain way when handled
To exhaust, by working.
Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
To ferment.
To set into action.
Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
To provoke or excite; to influence.
To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
To cause to work.
To effect by gradual degrees;
To influence.
To move in an agitated manner.
To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
To effect by gradual degrees.
To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
The staging of events to appear as real.
The result of a particular manner of production.
Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
Ore before it is dressed.
A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
Something produced using the specified material or tool.
One's employer.
Something on which effort is expended.
effort expended on a particular task.
The place where one is employed.
A fortification.
A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
labour, occupation, job.