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Command

noun

An authoritative direction or instruction to do something. Synonyms: bid, bidding, dictation.

A military unit or region under the control of a single officer.

The power or authority to command.

Availability for use.

A position of highest authority.

Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity. Synonyms: control, mastery.

(computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program. Synonyms: instruction, program line, statement.

verb

(past & past part. commanded; pres. part. commanding)

Be in command of.

Make someone do something. Synonym: require.

Demand as one's due. "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"

Look down on. Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop.

Exercise authoritative control or power over. Synonym: control. "Command the military forces"

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"Command" Quotes from Famous Books

... thronged streets to Vauxhall station, saying little to one another, and there Lewisham, assuming as indifferent a manner as he could command, recovered their possessions from the booking-office by means of two separate tickets and put them aboard a four-wheeler. His luggage went outside, but the little brown portmanteau containing Ethel's trousseau was small enough to go on the seat in front of them. You must figure a rather ...

— Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells

... I once went to hear some Prima Donna. I forget her name. It may have been Madame Neilson or Madame Albani. Never before had I come across such an extraordinary command over the voice. Even our best singers cannot hide their sense of effort; nor are they ashamed to bring out, as best they can, top notes or bass notes beyond their proper register. In our country the understanding ...

— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore

... a disposition to disobey what we know to be the command of God. If not checked, it grows into actual contempt of His ...

— The Prayer Book Explained • Percival Jackson

... the hearts of British soldiers burn within them. We had a number of native troops from other parts of the country who remained faithful to the British, but still the rebel regiments far outnumbered the English troops. We found ourselves once more under the command of our old general, Sir Colin Campbell. We marched from Calcutta to Cawnpore, from which the wretch, Nana Sahib, had taken flight, and then on to Lucknow, which the rebels still held in great force. We lost a great many men by cholera, and had frequent skirmishes and one or two pitched battles ...

— Taking Tales - Instructive and Entertaining Reading • W.H.G. Kingston

... precedence among officers of the same service and among the services in relation to each other have a very real utility not only in determining succession to command and as reminders of the authority to which all persons in the Armed Services are subject but in providing precedent for all official or ceremonial occasions in which officers or organizations of the several services may find themselves cooperating. It is easy to imagine the confusion that ...

— The Armed Forces Officer - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 • U. S. Department of Defense

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