(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.
Foreman
Definition:
(n.) The first or chief man
(n.) The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
(n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increasing pressures on social care budgets meant DLA was often the only financial support they got, said Esther Foreman, the charity's campaigns and policy manager, and short-term cost savings could have long-term implications for claimants, their families and carers.
(2) After 48 h their ovaries were removed and the granulosa cells isolated (Foreman et al.
(3) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
(4) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.
(5) My religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest George Foreman on Muhammad Ali: he was truly beautiful .
(6) At 11.35am, within a packed and hushed court 1, Redknapp and his fellow defendant, the former Portsmouth football club owner Milan Mandaric, hugged in the glass-walled dock after the female jury foreman responded with quiet answers of "not guilty" to each count.
(7) Ali knocked out Foreman in the eighth round, taking the heavyweight champion title from him.
(8) Apart from a small bruise beneath the right eye and some flecks of blood surrounding the iris (which he attributed to Foreman’s thumb), he was unmarked.
(9) Muhammad Ali, 'the Greatest', dies aged 74 Read more George Foreman , 67, who was Ali’s opponent in the legendary Rumble in the Jungle fight in 1974, took to Twitter to share his grief.
(10) Instead of providing all the robots with a plan of the desired building, and appointing a mechanical foreman to direct them, each is given the same set of rules that tells it when to move itself or a nearby brick.
(11) He bent over the set with a hostile concentration when Foreman’s manager, Dick Sadler, came up on the screen.
(12) Elizabeth Weise (@eweise) #ellenpao The jury foreman counted wrong on the fourth claim.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest George Foreman on Muhammad Ali: he was truly beautiful – audio “A part of me slipped away, the greatest piece,’ Foreman wrote.
(14) His recruitment agent in Kathmandu, Capital International Manpower, said Shanbu was “over-reacting” and that they sent him on a foreman’s contract because that is the permit that had been supplied by Qatar.
(15) So, having rolled away the rock, he hit George Foreman on the head with it.
(16) There were a few familiar faces from gangland's past: Freddie "Brown Bread Fred" Foreman and Chris Lambrianou, both of whom were involved with the Krays around the time the robbery took place.
(17) Making plays Two weeks ago, Sean Foreman, the president of Sports Reference LLC, the company behind the popular, addictive and wildly useful website baseball-reference.com provided the Guardian with a breakdown of the stat known as WAR , which is "an attempt by the sabermetric baseball community to summarize a player's total contributions to their team in one statistic".
(18) Two fights with Sonny Liston, where he proclaimed himself 'The Greatest' and proved he was; three epic wars with Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in 1974's 'Rumble in the Jungle'; dethroning Leon Spinks in 1978 to become heavyweight champion for an unprecedented third time.
(19) The high-profile status of the Lawrence killing – its highlighting of racism, incompetence and an apparent vein of corruption in the Metropolitan police, and the way the aftermath of the murder radically changed the face of policing, the law and politics – was reflected within minutes of the jury foreman pronouncing the "guilty" verdicts in court 16.
(20) It was a mantra that served him well with the list of distinguished fighters he trained, including George Foreman, who became the oldest ever heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in 1994; his first world champion, Carmen Basilio, who took the welterweight title in 1955; the brilliant Cuban-born Mexican world welterweight champion José Nápoles; and the multiweight world champion Sugar Ray Leonard.