(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.
Supervisor
Definition:
(n.) One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.
(n.) A spectator; a looker-on.
Example Sentences:
(1) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
(2) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
(3) Other findings showed highly satisfactory to above average performance of graduates whether based on residency supervisors' evaluations or self-evaluations and higher ratings for the graduates who selected surgery residency programs than for those pursuing other disciplines.
(4) We reviewed the routines for providing information on drugs, and for training in the use of drugs and aids to medication in hospital and nursing homes by interviewing 11 ward supervisors.
(5) The authors compared supervisors' global and specific item ratings of psychiatric residents' performance in each of three years of training with ratings of these applicants prior to their admission to the program.
(6) Mentoring relationships experienced by Army Nurse Corps officers in head nurse or nursing supervisor roles were examined via a survey questionnaire.
(7) Respondents' perceptions of their supervisors' style adaptability were positively and significantly correlated with their perceptions of work-unit effectiveness.
(8) 34% of the house officers had an appointed supervisor compared with 54% in primary care.
(9) Later they were also assigned to interdisciplinary inpatient teams led by community psychiatry supervisors.
(10) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
(11) The leader of such a supervisors' group can be more helpful if he will see himself as a facilitator of essentially peer group observations rather than a transference interpreter or group teacher.
(12) Data published by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) showed that the banks were only forced to simulate losses on sovereign debt that they held for trading purposes and not for bonds they might hold to maturity on their banking books.
(13) The most pronounced finding was the importance of supervisors being pharmacists: satisfaction on five of six satisfaction subscales was related to whether one's supervisor was a pharmacist.
(14) Shapla has found a job at another factory but, due to her back injuries, as a sewing-machine operator, not a supervisor.
(15) Administrators, supervisors, and staff must be involved in this important process to attract and retain new as well as experienced nurses.
(16) Mohamed Saleh, the security supervisor for the Al Masry club, claimed that he too noticed people in the crowd whom he described as "strangers".
(17) Variables within the referring analyst, patient, candidate, and supervisor are examined in their interaction with the circumstances of the assessment enterprise.
(18) A nursery supervisor with smear- and culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and a productive cough exposed 528 newborns over a three-month period before her disease was diagnosed.
(19) Combining the data from cutaneous malignant melanoma over both sexes and both registries the occupations with the highest incidence ratios (expressed as a percentage) were: airline pilots, incidence ratio (IR) = 273, (95% confidence limits 118-538); finance and insurance brokers IR = 245 (140-398); professional accountants IR = 208 (134-307); dentists IR = 207 (133-309); inspectors and supervisors in transport IR = 206 (133-304); pharmacists IR = 198 (115-318); professionals not elsewhere classified IR = 196 (155-243); judges IR = 196 (126-289); doctors IR = 188 (140-248); university teachers IR = 188 (110-302); and chemists IR = 188 (111-296).
(20) The radical, yet promising approach of eliminating evening and night shift nursing supervisors is discussed.