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Command   /kəmˈænd/   Listen
Command

noun
1.
An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.  Synonyms: bid, bidding, dictation.
2.
A military unit or region under the control of a single officer.
3.
The power or authority to command.
4.
Availability for use.
5.
A position of highest authority.
6.
Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity.  Synonyms: control, mastery.
7.
(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)
1.
Be in command of.
2.
Make someone do something.  Synonym: require.
3.
Demand as one's due.  "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
4.
Look down on.  Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop.
5.
Exercise authoritative control or power over.  Synonym: control.  "Command the military forces"



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"Command" Quotes from Famous Books



... then under the command of Gen. L. F. Ross, left Jackson for Bolivar, Tennessee, a town about twenty-eight miles southwest of Jackson, on what was then called the Mississippi Central Railroad. (Here I will observe that the sketch of the regiment before mentioned in the Illinois Adjutant ...
— The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 • Leander Stillwell
... over-stout, with an eye that never met yours as you talked with him. Whether it was that he was concealing something, or whether he was merely fearful that we might after all be United States Secret Service men, or whether it was simply a lack of command of English, he was uncommonly uncommunicative at first. He repeated sullenly the details of the disappearance of Guerrero, just as we had ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... climatic influences, and cultivation methods of a country give its coffee certain distinctive drinking qualities. Washing immensely improves the appearance of the bean; it also reduces curing costs. Generally speaking, washed coffees will always command a premium over coffees dried in ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... the cottage clock deliberately measure out the seconds; time stood still with him; an almost superstitious terror took command of his faculties; at last, he could bear no more, and, springing through the little garden in two bounds, he put his face against the window. The blind, which had not been drawn fully down, left an open chink ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson
... attitudes she used when talking to him. They were so broadly indicative of the real Helen Merival, and so far from the affectations he had expected to see. Of course, she was the actress—the mobility of her face, her command of herself, was far beyond that of any untrained woman, no matter how versatile; but she was nobly the actress, broadened ...
— The Light of the Star - A Novel • Hamlin Garland


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