captain

«captain» in Mova's school dictionary: The person in charge of a ship or an aeroplane — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a captain, captains); verb (captain, captains, captained, captaining)

meaning for a pupil

1) The person in charge of a ship or an aeroplane. tree →

2) The leader of a sports team. tree →

3) An officer in the army, navy or police. tree →

4) (verb) To lead a team or a ship. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school sport, the team captain leads the players and talks to the referee. In stories, a ship's captain gives orders and is responsible for everyone on board. On planes, the captain is the chief pilot. Phrases: «team captain», «ship's captain», «Captain Hook».

examples

• Mia is the captain of our netball team. tree →
• The captain steered the ship through the storm. tree →
• «This is your captain speaking,» said the pilot. tree →
• Captain Hook is the pirate in «Peter Pan». tree →
• Who will captain the team this year? tree →
• The captain was the last to leave the sinking ship. tree →
• Our class captain helps the teacher. tree →
• The captain was in great fright. tree →

note

As a title it takes a capital letter: Captain Smith. Countable: captains. The leader of a school house or class may also be called a captain, especially in the UK and Australia.

In the corpora

• A bossy captain isn't a good one, and you are allowed to leave a game that has stopped being fun.
• Max in Sydney promised «no homework ever» if he became class captain.
• He won, homework continued — a captain has no power over homework.
• The captains still shake hands, as the rules say.
• Imagine having two class captains who must agree on everything: neither can boss everyone around.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «captain» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.