capital vs flagship

capital

noun
  • The chief or most important thing. 

  • A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it. 

  • Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system. 

  • Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures). 

  • The most important city in the field specified. 

  • An uppercase letter. 

  • The uppermost part of a column. 

  • Knowledge; awareness; proficiency. 

adj
  • Of prime importance. 

  • Of or relating to the head. 

  • Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death. 

  • used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness 

  • Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation. 

  • Uppercase. 

flagship

noun
  • The most important one out of a related group. 

  • The ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag. 

  • The ship regarded as most important out of a group, e.g. a nation's navy or company's fleet. 

verb
  • To act as a flagship for. 

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