A captain commands a company or battery. 一个上尉指挥一个连队或炮兵连。
The man who captained the home team is my brother. 率领主队的是我的兄弟。
The captain described the accident in the ship's log. 船长在航海日志中描述了这次事故。
captain
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an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
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the naval officer in command of a military ship
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a policeman in charge of a precinct
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an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
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the leader of a group of people
<noun.person> a captain of industry
the pilot in charge of an airship
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a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers
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be the captain of a sports team
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Captain \Cap"tain\ (k[a^]p"t[i^]n), n. [OE. capitain, captain, OF. capitain, F. capitaine (cf. Sp. capitan, It. capitano), LL. capitaneus, capitanus, fr. L. caput the head. See under {Chief}, and cf. {Chieftain}.] 1. A head, or chief officer; as: (a) 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. (b) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army. (c) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain. (d) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel. (e) One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc. (f) The foreman of a body of workmen. (g) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team.
A trainband captain eke was he. --Cowper.
The Rhodian captain, relying on . . . the lightness of his vessel, passed, in open day, through all the guards. --Arbuthnot.
2. A military leader; a warrior.
Foremost captain of his time. --Tennyson.
{Captain general}. (a) The commander in chief of an army or armies, or of the militia. (b) The Spanish governor of Cuba and its dependent islands.
{Captain lieutenant}, a lieutenant with the rank and duties of captain but with a lieutenant's pay, -- as in the first company of an English regiment.
Captain \Cap"tain\, v. t. To act as captain of; to lead. [R.]
Men who captained or accompanied the exodus from existing forms. --Lowell.
Captain \Cap"tain\, a. Chief; superior. [R.]
captain jewes in the carcanet. --Shak.
Master \Mas"ter\ (m[.a]s"t[~e]r), n. [OE. maistre, maister, OF. maistre, mestre, F. ma[^i]tre, fr. L. magister, orig. a double comparative from the root of magnus great, akin to Gr. me`gas. Cf. {Maestro}, {Magister}, {Magistrate}, {Magnitude}, {Major}, {Mister}, {Mistress}, {Mickle}.] 1. A male person having another living being so far subject to his will, that he can, in the main, control his or its actions; -- formerly used with much more extensive application than now. (a) The employer of a servant. (b) The owner of a slave. (c) The person to whom an apprentice is articled. (d) A sovereign, prince, or feudal noble; a chief, or one exercising similar authority. (e) The head of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other supernatural being.
2. One who uses, or controls at will, anything inanimate; as, to be master of one's time. --Shak.
Master of a hundred thousand drachms. --Addison.
We are masters of the sea. --Jowett (Thucyd.).
3. One who has attained great skill in the use or application of anything; as, a master of oratorical art.
Great masters of ridicule. --Macaulay.
No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it. --Locke.
4. A title given by courtesy, now commonly pronounced m[i^]ster, except when given to boys; -- sometimes written {Mister}, but usually abbreviated to Mr.
5. A young gentleman; a lad, or small boy.
Where there are little masters and misses in a house, they are impediments to the diversions of the servants. --Swift.
6. (Naut.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called {captain}. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel.
7. A person holding an office of authority among the Freemasons, esp. the presiding officer; also, a person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
{Little masters}, certain German engravers of the 16th century, so called from the extreme smallness of their prints.
{Master in chancery}, an officer of courts of equity, who acts as an assistant to the chancellor or judge, by inquiring into various matters referred to him, and reporting thereon to the court.
{Master of arts}, one who takes the second degree at a university; also, the degree or title itself, indicated by the abbreviation M. A., or A. M.
{Master of the horse}, the third great officer in the British court, having the management of the royal stables, etc. In ceremonial cavalcades he rides next to the sovereign.
{Master of the rolls}, in England, an officer who has charge of the rolls and patents that pass the great seal, and of the records of the chancery, and acts as assistant judge of the court. --Bouvier. --Wharton.
{Past master}, (a) one who has held the office of master in a lodge of Freemasons or in a society similarly organized. (b) a person who is unusually expert, skilled, or experienced in some art, technique, or profession; -- usually used with at or of.
{The old masters}, distinguished painters who preceded modern painters; especially, the celebrated painters of the 16th and 17th centuries.
{To be master of one's self}, to have entire self-control; not to be governed by passion.
{To be one's own master}, to be at liberty to act as one chooses without dictation from anybody.
Note: Master, signifying chief, principal, masterly, superior, thoroughly skilled, etc., is often used adjectively or in compounds; as, master builder or master-builder, master chord or master-chord, master mason or master-mason, master workman or master-workman, master mechanic, master mind, master spirit, master passion, etc.
Throughout the city by the master gate. --Chaucer.
{Master joint} (Geol.), a quarryman's term for the more prominent and extended joints traversing a rock mass.
{Master key}, a key adapted to open several locks differing somewhat from each other; figuratively, a rule or principle of general application in solving difficulties.
{Master lode} (Mining), the principal vein of ore.
{Master mariner}, an experienced and skilled seaman who is certified to be competent to command a merchant vessel.
{Master sinew} (Far.), a large sinew that surrounds the hough of a horse, and divides it from the bone by a hollow place, where the windgalls are usually seated.
{Master singer}. See {Mastersinger}.
{Master stroke}, a capital performance; a masterly achievement; a consummate action; as, a master stroke of policy.
{Master tap} (Mech.), a tap for forming the thread in a screw cutting die.
{Master touch}. (a) The touch or skill of a master. --Pope. (b) Some part of a performance which exhibits very skillful work or treatment. ``Some master touches of this admirable piece.'' --Tatler.
{Master work}, the most important work accomplished by a skilled person, as in architecture, literature, etc.; also, a work which shows the skill of a master; a masterpiece.
{Master workman}, a man specially skilled in any art, handicraft, or trade, or who is an overseer, foreman, or employer.
"You need Americans to set the standard," argues Julian Dodwell, the Tigers' captain.
Hailed as the "Mozart of shipping" for his precociousness, Martinos entered the business as a teen-ager when his mother and her brothers _ a shipping lawyer and a sea captain _ bought their first ship.
The Stark's captain is being reassigned to shore duty, officials investigating the incident said.
"Contributing to the accident was the degradation of the captain's performance resulting from his use of cocaine before the accident," the board said.
Most pilots "would just as soon have as little contact with him as possible," says Richard Russell, a DC-10 captain and 32-year veteran at United.
It suffered no casualties in the first attack July 7. But its British captain and two Filipino crewmen were killed in a Jan. 28 raid, when the Salverve was towing a tanker damaged in an Iraqi air strike the day before.
He was contacted by telephone in Male by The Associated Press and said the captain's statement "may have been propaganda." The BBC report identified the ship as the Progress Light.
Aage Danielsen, a Norwegian rescue vessel captain, said the missing passengers were believed still on the ferry.
"I'll never forget this, thank you," the captain shouted into the radio after Larnaca Airport air traffic controllers told him he was cleared to land.
He learned fast, going on to captain the New York University team and play three years in the national championships at Forest Hills.
He had a Polish captain's uniform made to mark the anniversary of Poland's entry into the Second World War, even though he was not entitled to wear it.
A U.S. Navy captain said today he would have rescued Vietnamese boat people his ship found in the South China Sea if he had been correctly informed of their desperate plight.
It carries no ammunition and its guns cannot be fired, the newly appointed captain says.
"Any aircraft can only have one captain, and we had two: Ben Abruzzo and Maxie Anderson," he said.
In 1913, Notre Dame's football team upset Army 35-13 in a game at West Point that popularized the forward pass, and brought attention to Notre Dame's team captain, Knute Rockne.
"The captain feels that he had what is called a compressor stall," said another Delta spokesman, Bill Berry. "There was a crosswind blowing across the runway.
Tony" Tarracino, the boat captain, barkeep and storyteller extraordinaire, is Key West's new mayor.
"The crew failed to understand that the captain asked this because of safety reasons," Harmsen told the AP. "They thought it was another company ploy."
And the captain of the tank landing ship Boulder was relieved of his command because the ship ran aground during a NATO exercise off the coast of Norway on Sept. 12.
A police captain was shot Sunday in a Manila suburb and 15 people were killed in fighting between guerrillas of the communists' New People's Army and anti-communist vigilantes on the central island of Negros.
Radio messages recorded the morning the Exxon Valdez ran aground show the ship's captain spent up to an hour trying to rock the tanker free, a move the Coast Guard says could have sunk the ship.
"We really can't adequately explain the delay," the flight captain said.
As the sub's trial run began 13 miles off the New Hampshire coast, a panel of green lights indicated that all the hull openings were closed, and the captain, Lt.
State authorities filed criminal charges against a tanker captain accusing him of operating his ship under the influence of alcohol, while the nation's worst oil spill spread into the Gulf of Alaska.
Thus, U.S. warships bristling with weapons were forced to stand off while Iranian gunboats like the Sabalan _ the "frigate Nasty" as one Norwegian captain calls it _ blazed away at unarmed vessels with virtual impunity.
Its initial conclusions found that the captain of the vessel improperly handed over the helm to his third mate.
The pirates later handed the captain over to a fishing vessel.
The official spoke after a report in Monday's New York Times that one man of Middle Eastern appearance had asked passers-by: "Where does the captain live?" FBI spokesman Gary Laturno said he could neither confirm nor deny the report.
The captain of our boat reassured us that Galapagos sharks were special, like the islands' other creatures. "Vegetarians," he said with a big smile.
The captain was identified as Victor Kazmin but no other details were immediately available.