Word Finder - captain

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A chief or leader.

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The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.

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The captain is the last man to leave a sinking ship.

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An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.

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A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.

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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 an Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.

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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.

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The leader of a group of workers.

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John Henry said to the captain, "A man ain't nothing but a man."

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The head boy of a school.

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A maître d', a headwaiter.

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

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To act as captain

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

The captain smiled and touched his hat.

The captain was responsible for the freight and the ship; he had to replace all loss.

And, by and by, I might become the captain of a ship.

Meanwhile, Captain Beechey visited the islands in the "Blossom," assigned names to some of them, and published a description of their features.

He was furnished with a yacht, the " Heemskirk," and a fly-boat, the " Zeehaen " (or " Sea Hen "), under the command of Captain Jerrit Jansen.

The captain was very angry.

Captain Keller invited some of the ministers to dinner.

Two of the lots were immediately purchased by Captain Ephraim Williams (1715-1755), who was at the time commander of Fort Massachusetts in the vicinity; several other lots were bought by soldiers under him; and in 1 753 the proprietors organized a township government.

He entered the navy as midshipman (1799) with his father, Christopher Raymond Perry (1761-1818), a captain in the navy, and saw service against the Barbary pirates.

The general looked the captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he approached.

Speak to the captain when he makes his round, he will do anything for you.

The four players in a rink are known as the leader, second player, third player and skip (or driver, captain or director), and their positions, at least in matches, are unchangeable.

The captain of the people, acting as head of the ascendant Guelphs or Ghibellines, undertakes the responsibility of proscriptions, decides on questions of policy, forms alliances, declares war.

Growing up out of the captain of the people or signore of the commune, the tyrant annihilated both parties for his own profit and for the peace of the state.

The captain returned to the room, limping slightly and whistling a tune.

The captain gazed intently at him as he had done when he learned that "shelter" was Unterkunft in German, and his face suddenly brightened.

When that door was opened and the prisoners, crowding against one another like a flock of sheep, squeezed into the exit, Pierre pushed his way forward and approached that very captain who as the corporal had assured him was ready to do anything for him.

The captain was also in marching kit, and on his cold face appeared that same it which Pierre had recognized in the corporal's words and in the roll of the drums.

Fitzgerald looked as if he'd found a Captain Midnight ring in his cereal.

His grandfather was a small farmer in county Kildare, and his mother was the daughter of a captain in the merchant service.

In 1642 the governor and council of Batavia fitted out two ships to prosecute the discovery of the south land, then believed to be part of a vast Antarctic continent, and entrusted the command to Captain Abel Jansen Tasman.

One of their most distinguished explorers was Samuel Champlain, a captain in the navy, French North who, after a remarkable journey through Mexico and the America.

Two English missions sent by Warren Hastings to Tibet, one led by George Bogle in 1774, and the other by Captain Turner in 1783, complete Tibetan exploration in the 18th century.

But a romantic interest attaches to the wreck of the " Wager," one of Anson's fleet, on a desert island near Chiloe, for it bore fruit in the charming narrative of Captain John Byron, which will endure for all time.

In 1764 Byron himself was sent on a voyage of discovery round the world, which led immediately after his return to the despatch of another to complete his work, under the command of Captain Samuel Wallis.

The expedition, consisting of the " Dolphin " commanded by Wallis, and the " Swallow " under Captain Philip Carteret, sailed in September 1766, but the ships were separated on entering the Pacific from the Strait of Magellan.

Stevenson vividly describes the heroism of the captain and crew.

Some other officers, who had seen the whole affair, cried out to the captain, Shame!

The captain showed me Columbus's cabin and the desk with an hour-glass on it.

It was Captain Best who secured a regular firman for trade from the Great Mogul.

The three voyages of Captain James Cook form an era in the history of geographical discovery.

In 1767 he sailed for Tahiti, with the object of observing the transit of Venus, accompanied Captain ' '.

In September 1791 Captain Antoine d'Entrecasteaux sailed from Brest with two vessels to seek for tidings.

Captain Peter Dillon at length ascertained, in 1828, that the ships of La Perouse had been wrecked on the island of Vanikoro during a hurricane.

The " Pandora," under Captain Edwards, was sent out in search of the " Bounty," and discovered the islands of Cherry and Mitre, east of the Santa Cruz group, but she was eventually lost on a reef in Torres Strait.

Among them was Captain Isaac Hull.

Captain Garrick died about a month after David's arrival in London.

In 1796-1797 Captain Wilson, in the missionary ship " Duff," discovered the Gambier and other islands, and rediscovered the islands known to and seen by Quiros, but since called the Duff Group. Another result of Captain Cook's work was the colonization of Australia.

On the 18th of January 1788 Admiral Phillip and Captain Hunter arrived in Botany Bay in the " Supply " and " Sirius," followed by six transports, and established a colony at Port Jackson.

Yet another outcome of Captain Cook's work was the voyage of George Vancouver, who had served as a midshipman in Cook's second and third voyages.

Captain Vancouver was sent out to receive the cession, and to survey the coast from Cape Mendocino northwards.

In 1741 Captain Christopher Middleton was ordered to solve the question of a passage from Hudson Bay to the westward.

Moor in 1746, and Captain Coats in 1751, who examined the Wager Inlet up to the end.

He had fought as captain of the vanguard at Flodden and after the victory was created earl of Surrey.

Another son, Charles King (1789-1867), was also educated abroad, was captain of a volunteer regiment in the early part of the war of 1812, and served in 1814 in the New York Assembly, and after working for some years as a journalist was president of Columbia College in 1849-1864.

In December 1774, as a militia captain he assisted in the capture of Fort William and Mary at New Castle, New Hampshire, one of the first overt acts of the American colonists against the property of the crown.

He contributed largely to raise troops in 1777 to meet Burgoyne; and he served as a captain at Bennington and at Saratoga.

Following on this first experiment, the East India Company, in 1841, proposed to maintain a permanent flotilla on the Tigris and Euphrates, and set two vessels, the " Nitocris " and the " Nimrod," under the command of Captain Campbell of the Indian navy, to attempt the ascent of the latter river.

In 1615 the town was visited by an English expedition under Captain Keeling, who concluded a treaty with the zamorin; but it was not until 1664 that an English trading settlement was established by the East India Company.

The Maoris ate their enemies' hearts to gain their courage, but to whatever degree animistic beliefs may have once contributed to their cannibalism, it is certain that long before Captain Cook's visit religious sanction for the custom had long given place to mere gluttonous enjoyment.