What's the difference between captain and commodore?

Captain


Definition:

  • (n.) A head, or chief officer
  • (n.) The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service.
  • (n.) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army.
  • (n.) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain.
  • (n.) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel.
  • (n.) One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc.
  • (n.) The foreman of a body of workmen.
  • (n.) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team.
  • (n.) A military leader; a warrior.
  • (v. t.) To act as captain of; to lead.
  • (a.) Chief; superior.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was the first to win as a captain and a manager.
  • (2) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
  • (3) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
  • (4) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
  • (5) He sends a low ball into the middle, in the general direction of Fabregas, but the former Arsenal captain can't get ahead of Lahm, who is making a proper nuisance of himself.
  • (6) This is no doubt a captain’s pick by Malcolm Turnbull and we hope for the sake of the relationship that it has been a good pick.” The planned appointment of Hockey to the Washington role has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Australian politics .
  • (7) Nemanja Vidic will leave Manchester United at the end of the season, the captain stating he wants to challenge himself again.
  • (8) There was effectively a state of open warfare between Mourinho and the club captain Iker Casillas.
  • (9) The club captain, whose return had been delayed due to his participation at Euro 2012 with Holland, underwent his medical assessment and he and the manager sought to put a professional front on what has been a deep fissure in their relationship.
  • (10) Manager Claudio Ranieri, captain Wes Morgan and goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel were spotted at the airport, where hordes of local media and fans waited for their arrival.
  • (11) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
  • (12) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
  • (13) The home fans were lifted by the sight of Billy Bonds, a legend in these parts, being presented with a lifetime achievement award before the kick-off and the former West Ham captain and manager probably would have enjoyed playing in Allardyce's combative midfield.
  • (14) The other rowers in the Arctic crew were Billy Gammon, 37, from Cornwall; Rob Sleep, 38, and British army officer Captain David Mans, 28, both from Hampshire.
  • (15) Now 31, England captain and a respected veteran of the game, she's seen plausible, semi-professional wages become a part of women's football – finally – and can currently expect to earn about £25,000 a season.
  • (16) His marker, it emerged, had been the subject of an unwitting bodycheck by his captain.
  • (17) True, that comment was made early in Guardiola’s spell as Bayern manager and perhaps it was just a way of endearing himself to his new captain, but there is no doubt the former Barcelona manager adores Lahm.
  • (18) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
  • (19) Ronald Johnson, the Missouri highway patrol captain drafted by the governor to take over security in the town and calm the situation down, blamed “premeditated criminal acts”.
  • (20) There was no place for the captain Iker Casillas nor for Xavi, this generation’s ideologue.

Commodore


Definition:

  • (n.) An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army.
  • (n.) A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.
  • (n.) A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.
  • (n.) A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Japan was finally opened to western influence by Commodore Perry in 1854, Shakespeare's works – via Lamb's Tales – followed closely behind.
  • (2) Holiday's regular label, Columbia, blanched at the prospect of recording it, so she turned to Commodore Records, a small, leftwing operation based at Milt Gabler's record shop on West 52nd Street.
  • (3) MAMM REPORT is a report-coding system for mammography, developed by radiologists, that runs on a microcomputer (Amiga, Commodore Co., West Chester, PA).
  • (4) A general purpose analog-to-digital conversion system and its interface for a low-cost personal computer (Commodore 64) are described.
  • (5) It provides a complete print-out of the data with editing options and is written in BASIC EDEX 4.0 Commodore computer language.
  • (6) This, in a way, is what Larkin's poem is about: the smashing invasion of the Qualcast Commodore destroys the world of the hedgehog, which is a destruction of the world of unobtrusiveness.
  • (7) The two ISI officials named in the article, Rear Admiral Adnan Nazir and Commodore Khalid Pervaiz, were naval officers.
  • (8) Implementation of an alternating movement paradigm for monkeys was achieved using an inexpensive but versatile microcomputer, the Commodore 64.
  • (9) Its built-in colour graphics and ability to plug into a TV set were marked advantages over rivals that appeared the same year, the Commodore PET and the Tandy TRS80.
  • (10) If he does win, it will be painful for bookmakers as three-quarters of all money backed has been for the writer who has been shortlisted three times (Flaubert's Parrot, England, England and Arthur and George) but never won.The wild card on the list is DeWitt, who tells the story of Charlie and Eli Sisters, two assassins who work for the shadowy "Commodore", and who travel from Oregon to California on the trail of a prospector called Hermann Kermit Warm.
  • (11) REPRINT, running on the Commodore 64 home computer, and originally meant to manage a file containing several thousand reprints, has capabilities exceeding this simple task considerably.
  • (12) The conventional hardware consists of a Commodore 64 console, a monitor, two floppy disk drives and an Epson HI-80 plotter, all of them readily available.
  • (13) The Indonesian navy’s chief spokesman, Commodore Untung Suropati, has confirmed a number of warships had moved towards the Australian border including frigates, fast torpedo craft (KCT), fast missile craft (KCR), corvettes and maritime patrol aircraft, the Jakarta Post reported .
  • (14) Two communication programs that use a Commodore 64 computer are described in this paper.
  • (15) The algorithm is implemented for the Commodore 64 microcomputer.
  • (16) A senior Australian military official, Air Commodore John McGarry, said the satellite material was credible enough to divert search efforts to the area involved.
  • (17) As well as Bawtree, a former commander of the Portsmouth naval base, the project organisers include Colonel John Blashford-Snell, who in 1968 organised the first descent of the Blue Nile at the request of Haile Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia, and Maldwin Drummond, a past Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
  • (18) An inexpensive microcomputer (Commodore 64K) based system was developed for the analysis of neural spike trains.
  • (19) The letter was signed by Marshal of the RAF Lord Craig, the former chief of the defence staff and chief of air staff; Major General Julian Thompson, the commander of land forces in the Falklands conflict; Air Vice-Marshal Tony Mason, the former air secretary for the RAF; Major General Patrick Cordingley, the commander of the Desert Rats in the Gulf war; Air Commodore Andrew Lambert, the director of the UK National Defence Association; and Admiral Sir John "Sandy" Woodward.
  • (20) The system utilizes an inexpensive Commodore 64 microcomputer for data collection and can distinguish between movements of short (i.e., less than 1.0 s) and longer (i.e., greater than or equal to 1.0 s) duration, and between number of movements and time spent in motion.