Private vs Captain - What's the difference?
private | captain |
Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Not in governmental office or employment.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Not publicly known; not open; secret.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.
Intended only for the use of an individual, group, or organization.
Not accessible by the public.
Not traded by the public.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Secretive; reserved.
(US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.
The lowest rank of the army.
A soldier of the rank of private.
(in plural privates) A euphemistic term for the genitals.
(obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
(obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
* Shakespeare
A private lesson.
A chief or leader.
*1526 , The (Bible) , tr. (William Tyndale), (w) 2:
*:For out of the shal come a captaine , whych shall govern my people israhel.
*1929 , (Rudyard Kipling), "
*:Stand up-stand up, Northumberland! / I bid you answer true, / If England's King has under his hand / A Captain as good as you?
The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
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An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
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*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain , as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."
A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard]], NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a . A captain is equal in grade or rank to an Army, Marine Corps, or [[United States Air Force, Air Force colonel.
(senseid)One of the athletes on a sports team who designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
*(Remember the Titans)
*:Captain's supposed to be the leader, right?
*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 5, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= The leader of a group of workers.
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A .
*1977 , Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey, lyricists, ,
*:So I called up the Captain , "Please bring me my wine." / He said: "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969."
(lb) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel .
As nouns the difference between private and captain
is that private is the lowest rank of the army while captain is a chief or leader.As an adjective private
is belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.As a verb captain is
to act as captain.private
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private -equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
Synonyms
* (done in the view of others ): secluded * (intended only for one's own use ): personal * (not accessible by the public ):Antonyms
* publicNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Nor must I be unmindful of my private .
- Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private .
- What have kings, that privates have not too?
- If you want to learn ballet, consider taking privates .
Synonyms
* (genitals) bits, private partsDerived terms
* in private * privacy * private language * private parts * private property * private stock * public-private partnershipStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----captain
English
Noun
(en noun)The English Way":
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.}}