to captain
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3.0
- verb
- /ˈkæptɪn/
:
capitanear
- Gabato, I need you to captain us out of here.
But if your captaincy is are you going to captain Harland?
- But if your captaincy is are you going to captain Harland?
Examples
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Foley then introduces the rest of the team he will captain at Survivor Series: Kofi Kingston, Team Hell.
Blog text (20) -
I personally have always wanted to captain a capital ship.
Blog text (14) -
Perhaps you care to captain the visiting team.
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I mean, please captain, can you just maintain this depth for a short while?
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We have always intended to captain these ships ourselves.
Fiction book (1995) -
Her son also captains our best cricket team.
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I captain this voyage.
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We're sailing on the high seas aboard a galleon, captained by the villainous Lord Pomfrey.
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'Many years later I looked at the photograph again 'and realized that the kid in the center looking up at Franz Beckenbauer' was in fact Mike Windischmann, who captained the US team at the '90 World Cup in Italy.
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He captains the basketball team, leading them through every game with confidence.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To guide a group or be in charge
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3.9
To lead a group or team
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5.8
To lead a team or project the way the main player leads plays in American football
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5.5
To be in charge of a ship or boat
Idioms
Compounds
- Slang
3
8.9
A person who says what should have been done after they know what happened
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7.7
A senior officer in the Royal Air Force with the same rank as an army colonel
- Literature
A fictional English navy officer who becomes an admiral during the Napoleonic Wars
- Offensive
A man who keeps helping women in a way that is too much and makes him seem foolish and self-important
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Etymology
Captain as a verb comes from the same Latin caput ('head') through the noun, and to captain a team is to act as its 'head' or leader.