captain vs king

captain

noun
  • A chief or leader. 

  • An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel. 

  • The head boy of a school. 

  • A maître d', a headwaiter. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To act as captain 

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

king

noun
  • A powerful or majorly influential person. 

  • Something that has a preeminent position. 

  • The central pin or skittle in bowling games. 

  • A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit. 

  • A male dragonfly; a drake. 

  • A king skin. 

  • A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it is an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation. 

  • The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top. 

  • A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement. 

  • A king-sized bed. 

  • The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex. 

  • A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2. 

verb
  • To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over. 

  • To rule over as king. 

  • To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards. 

  • To crown king, to make (a person) king. 

  • To perform the duties of a king. 

  • To dress and perform as a drag king. 

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