captain

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Definizione monolingua captain



captain


Verb

captain (third-person singular simple present captains, present participle captaining, simple past and past participle captained)


  1. (intransitive) To act as captain
  2. (transitive) To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
Noun

captain (plural captains)


  1. A chief or leader.
    • 1526, The Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 2:
      For out of the shal come a captaine, whych shall govern my people israhel.
    • 1929, Rudyard Kipling, ""The English Way"":
      Stand up-stand up, Northumberland!
      I bid you answer true,
      If Englands King has under his hand
      A Captain as good as you?
  2. The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
    The captain is the last man to leave a sinking ship.
  3. An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
  4. A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
  5. 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.
  6. One of the athletes on a sports team who designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
    • Remember the Titans
      Captains supposed to be the leader, right?
  7. The leader of a group of workers.
    John Henry said to the captain, ""A man aint nothing but a man.""
  8. A maître d.
    • 1977, Don Felder, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey, lyricists, ""Hotel California"",
      So I called up the Captain, ""Please bring me my wine.""
      He said: ""We havent had that spirit here since 1969.""
  9. (southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.


Definizione italiano>inglese captain


capitano
  A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore and rear admiral
  An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major
  The person lawfully in command of a sea-going vessel
  The person lawfully in command of an airliner
  One of the athletes on a sports team designated to make decisions
  The person lawfully in command of a sea-going vessel.
capitano di vascello
di
  A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore and rear admiral
vascello
  A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore and rear admiral
comandante
presidente

Altri significati:


Traduzione 'veloce'



capitano ,capitano di vascello ,di ,vascello ,comandante


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