Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word COMMAND

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Definitions of COMMAND

1. An order to do something.
2. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
3. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
4. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
5. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
6. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
7. A command performance.
8. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.
9. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
10. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
11. (ambitransitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
12. (ambitransitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.
13. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
14. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
15. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
16. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
17. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.
18. (ambitransitive, archaic) To have a view (of), as from a superior position.

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Examples of Using COMMAND in a Sentence

• ASA carriage control characters, simple printing command characters used to control the movement of paper through line printers.
• 1099 – First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah.
• Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a Saturn V rocket, and was the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft: the command and service module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM).
• It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module.
• During the American Revolutionary War, he rose to the rank of major general in the Continental Army, but lost his command after a controversial retreat from Fort Ticonderoga.
• The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.
• It consists of the Ground Forces and the Air Force and Air Defence Forces, all under the command of the Ministry of Defence.
• The Ministry of Defense is responsible for political leadership, while overall military command is in the hands of the Defense Staff, headed by the Chief of the Defense.
• He was created as Tardush shad and given command over the western wing of the empire in 697 by Qapaghan.
• Julius Caesar and his allies formed up opposite the army of the Roman Republic under the command of Pompey.
• One of these was a British-led force with units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington (often referred to as the Anglo-allied army or Wellington's army).
• Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop that he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy.
• Near the site of the present-day city of Berestechko in Ukraine, a forces of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Otaman Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, Colonels Ivan Bohun and Fylon Dzhalaliy with Khan İslâm III Giray and Tugay Bey, who was killed in the battle, was defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's forces under the command of the Polish King John II Casimir, Prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Hetmans Marcin Kalinowski and Stanisław Lanckoroński.
• The word has nautical resonances: the tasks involved in operating a ship, particularly a sailing ship, providing numerous specialities within a ship's crew, often organised with a chain of command.
• Due to the years of Soviet military buildup at the expense of domestic development, and complex systemic problems in the command economy, Soviet output stagnated.
• Operational command of naval forces falls within the purview of the combatant commanders who report to the secretary of defense.
• In July 1941 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Middle East Theatre, but after initial successes, the war in North Africa turned against the British-led forces under his command, and he was relieved of the post in August 1942 during the North African campaign.
• The president appoints as prime minister the person who command the majority of elected representatives in the parliament and also appoints, on the prime minister's recommendation, members of the parliament as cabinet ministers.
• 36 – Forces of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han, under the command of Wu Han, conquer the separatist Chengjia empire, reuniting China.
• Derived from the Boeing 707 airliner, it provides all-weather surveillance, command, control, and communications, and is used by the United States Air Force, NATO, French Air and Space Force, Royal Saudi Air Force and Chilean Air Force.

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