(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.
Pennant
Definition:
(n.) A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel.
(n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, insiders said that late on Friday afternoon Pennant-Rea contacted Darcey to say they were not convinced that a seven-day operation for the Times and Sunday Times was off the table and would not therefore be approving Witherow and Ivens's appointments.
(2) And imagine handing one of those pennants over, shaking hands just before leading your country into a World Cup final!
(3) The six directors include Rupert Pennant-Rea, a former editor of the Economist and deputy governor of the Bank of England; Stephen Grabiner, a venture capitalist who previously worked in the Telegraph's commercial department; and Veronica Wadley, former editor of the London Evening Standard and ex-deputy editor of the Daily Mail.
(4) A History of Bradford City AFC in Objects , a new book by lifelong supporter John Dewhirst, appears not much more promising than a compulsive collection of memorabilia – but it is much more than the sum of its badges, pennants and other ephemera which the author admits his wife and three daughters would eagerly de-clutter tomorrow.
(5) This hatred is exacerbated when the Cards crush you season after season of course, to the tune of 19 pennants and 11 World Series titles.
(6) Pennant-Rea is also a former editor of the Economist, while Lord Marlesford is a former journalist on the same magazine.
(7) Pennant believes that Clarkson's apology does not address the root of the problem at the corporation.
(8) Pennant said Clarkson's apology did not address the diversity problem at the BBC.
(9) Despite mounting pressure on the BBC to sack Clarkson, Pennant is unconvinced that such a "kneejerk" move is the right response.
(10) Jon Walters and Kenwyne Jones tried to test the new goalkeeper with long shots early in the game, though both flew harmlessly wide and Amos dealt with his first cross from Jermaine Pennant comfortably enough.
(11) The wingers weren't getting enough crosses in early on, but Pennant's delivery for the second goal was excellent.
(12) Author and publisher Cass Pennant is a former member of the InterCity Firm.
(13) The Giants won NLCS Game Seven 9-0, powered by a five-run third inning, to win the National League pennant.
(14) Perry Boys Abroad, by Ian Hough, has been released by Pennant Publishing
(15) Simone Pennant, the founder of the The TV Collective, which helps run Henry's campaign, said such "incidents will keep happening" unless the BBC hires more black and Asian staff on Top Gear and its other shows.
(16) Psilotornus confertus Machalska, 1974 was found in the water-shrew Neomys fodiens Pennant, 1771 in the Oriental Pyrenean Mountains.
(17) In France, the larval forms (daughter sporocysts, cercariae and metacercariae) of M. oocysta develop in Hydrobia ulvae Pennant living on Norman coasts of the Channel; they are described again.
(18) However, it is understood that there is behind-the-scenes contact between the Times independent directors and News Corp executives – with Mike Darcey, the chief executive of News International, in contact with Rupert Pennant-Rea, one of the independent directors.
(19) "Our real role is to ensure that the editors of the Times and Sunday Times are able to run their newspapers according to their own judgments and with the resources adequate to that task", according to the leader of Wapping's "independent national directors", Rupert Pennant-Rea.
(20) Mike Darcey has a scheduled meeting next month with the directors but is expected to talk to the de facto chairman of the directors, former deputy Bank of England governor Rupert Pennant-Rea, in the coming days to see if they can establish a way of winning their approval for John Witherow and Martin Ivens, who were announced as "acting editors" of the Times and Sunday Times, respectively late on Friday.