Word Finder - command

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An order to do something.

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I was given a command to cease shooting.

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The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.

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to have command of an army

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Power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.

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England has long held command of the sea

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A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.

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General Smith was placed in command.

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The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.

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A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.

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Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.

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A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.

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The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.

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He's got good command tonight.

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A command performance.

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To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.

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The king commanded his servant to bring him dinner.

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To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.

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to command an army or a ship

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To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.

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he commanded silence

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To dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.

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Bridges commanded by a fortified house. (Motley.)

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To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.

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A good magistrate commands the respect and affections of the people.

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To hold, to control the use of.

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The fort commanded the bay.

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To have a view, as from a superior position.

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To direct to come; to bestow.

But when his Serenity took command everything became straight forward.

He sat in the only seat in the tiny craft, studying Ne'Rin, who transmitted from A'Ran's battle command center on the moon that was his interim home.

When the pit had been filled up a command was given.

The command was sharp.

Destiny immediately followed her command, looking back at the skunk.

His command was weak, yet the air around her stiffened until she hit an invisible wall.

They were astonished at her command of language.

Violence and command weren't second nature to Darkyn; they were his first.

He turned away from them, his gaze going upward and peering through the skylight in his spacious battle command center.

But they all stood in the same lines, under one command, and in a like order.

Only, please let me command something, so that I may really command...

The great majority of the two hundred galleys and eight galeasses, of which the fleet was composed, came from Venice, under the command of the proveditore Barbarigo; from Genoa, which was in close alliance with Spain, under Gianandrea Doria; and from the Pope whose squadron was commanded by Marc Antonio Colonna.

When the insurrectionary movements of 1848 broke out in Italy, his known zeal for the cause of legitimacy, as much as his reputation as an officer, marked him out for command.

In June 1849 Haynau was called to Vienna to command first an army of reserve, and then in the field against the Hungarians.

On the restoration of peace he was appointed to high command in Hungary.

His temper quickly led him into quarrels with the minister of war, and he resigned his command in 1850.

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

They were naval or military officers in command of the garrison, the convicts and the few free settlers.

He has command of the army and navy, and appoints federal ministers and judges.

Having learned to speak good German, he took command at Benghasi in the Italo-Turkish War.

Army Corps, of which he soon was virtually in command.

In 43 B.C. he was in command of the fleet on the coast of Asia, but after the battle of Philippi joined Sextus Pompeius in Sicily.

It was aided very materially by the dearth of workers consequent on the gold discoveries, when every man could command his own price.

He was surprised by the Romans under the command of Orobius (or Orbius), and only saved his life by flight.

Berruyer, who was in sole command, ordered the drums to beat and thus drowned the last words of the king's speech.

In May 1793 he was temporarily replaced as commander of the National Guard in Paris, so that he might take command of a force which he had organized to operate in La Vendee.

He served with Commodore Chauncey, and then was sent from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie, where he took up the chief command at the end of March 1813.

He holds supreme command by land and sea, appoints ministers and officials, promulgates the laws, coins money, bestows honors, has the right of pardoning, and summons and dissolves the parliament.

They fought for bare existence, for primacy in commerce, for the command of seaports, for the keys of mountain passes, for rivers, roads and all the avenues of wealth and plenty.

After his death, the Constable de Bourbon took command of them; they marched slowly down, aided by the marquis of Ferrara, and unopposed by the duke of Urbino, reached Rome, and took it by assault.

The liberators of Rome thereupon proceeded to plunder the city in a way which brought shame on their cause and disgrace (perhaps not wholly deserved) on the general left in command, Massna.

A month later the ambitious young general, Joubert, who took over Moreaus command and raffled part of Macdonalds following, was utterly routed by the Austro-Russian army at Novi (August 15) with the loss of 12,000 men.

The peace of Tilsit (July 7, 1807) enabled Napoleon to press on his projects for securing the command of the Mediterranean, thenceforth a fundamental axiom of his policy.

Murat, left in command of the Grand Army at of ?VapoVilna, abandoned his charge and in the next year made Icons overtures to the allies who coalesced against Napoleon.

He then requested Charles Albert to take the papal troops under his command, and also wrote to the emperor of Austria asking him voluntarily to relinquish Lombardy and Venetia.

On the 12th of March 1849, he denounced the armistice, and, owing to the want of confidence in Piedmontese strategy after 1848, gave the chief command to the Polish General Chrzanowski.

Jictor Emmanuel took the supreme command of the Italian sy, and La Marmora resigned the premiership (which was umed by Ricasoli), to become chief of the staff.

Where the faithful had had recourse to the bishop, no appeal was to be allowed, and the judges were to command execution of the episcopal decree.

Meanwhile the German War continued, and the two Quintilii, who had been left in command, begged Aurelius once more to take the field.

On the 12th of April 1769 the British expedition to observe the transit of Venus, under the naval command of James Cook, arrived at Tahiti.

He was also very judicious in the way in which he expended the limited money at his command; he did not fritter it away in an attempt to make the whole of a building remarkable, but devoted it chiefly to one part or feature, such as a spire or a rich scheme of internal decoration.

About 245 the emperor Philip the Arabian entrusted him with an important command on the Danube, and in 249 (or end of 248), having been sent to put down a revolt of the troops in Moesia and Pannonia, he was forced to assume the imperial dignity.

Henry II., duke of Brunswick, then took command of the troops of the league, and after Albert had been placed under the imperial ban in December 1553 he was defeated by Duke Henry, and compelled to fly to France.

The most celebrated voyage of antiquity undertaken for the express purpose of discovery was that fitted out by the senate of Carthage under the command of Hanno, with the intention of founding new colonies along the west coast of Africa.

The Spaniards in the Gulf of Darien were left by Ojeda under the command of Francisco Pizarro, the future conqueror of Peru.

Eventually a Biscayan named Sebastian del Cano, sailing home by way of the Cape of Good Hope, reached San Lucar in command of the " Victoria " on the 6th of September 1522, with eighteen survivors; this one ship of the squadron which sailed on the quest succeeded in accomplishing the first circumnavigation of the globe.

The appearance of Drake on the Peruvian coast led to an expedition being fitted out at Callao, to go in chase of him, under the command of Pedro Sarmiento.

In June 1595 Mendana sailed from the coast of Peru in command of a second expedition to colonize the Solomon Islands.

His young widow took command of the survivors and brought them safely to Manila.

Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, who was pilot under Mendana and Luis Vaez de Torres, were sent in command of two ships to continue the work of exploration.