- Naval officer - Senior naval rank - 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. - A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a
fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral. - 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. - A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel
of a squadron or fleet.
- An officer rank in the army - Army officer next below captain - Army rank - Commissioned officer - Deputy - Officer - An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his
absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the
performance of any duty.
- Army officer - Army rank - NCO rank - Non-commissioned officer - A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the
United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a
company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels. - Belonging or relating to the body; bodily. - Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In
this sense now usually written corporeal.
- Army rank - NCO rank - Non-commissioned officer - See Grant become a soldier - Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the
more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to
attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest
traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and
two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the
houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands,
and another attends the Court Chancery. - In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned
officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct
recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc. - A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of
the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
- Angular stripe of rank - Army rank insignia - Army stripe - Corporal’s stripe - It’s Che versus Ron on military patch - Military stripe - Standing next to Gorbachev, Ronnie Reagan hid insignia badge