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OFFICER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command
Example:
an officer is responsible for the lives of his men
Synonyms:
military officer; officer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("officer" is a kind of...):
man; military man; military personnel; serviceman (someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "officer"):
Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin; Grigori Potemkin; Grigori Potyokin; Potemkin; Potyokin (a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791))
warrant officer (holds rank by virtue of a warrant)
enlisted officer; noncom; noncommissioned officer (a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel)
naval officer (an officer in the navy)
military adviser; military advisor (a military officer who serves as an adviser to the troops of an allied nation)
inspector general (a military officer responsible for investigations)
executive officer (the officer second in command)
desk officer (a military officer who is not assigned to active duty)
commissioned officer (a military officer holding a commission)
commandant; commander; commanding officer (an officer in command of a military unit)
chief of staff (the senior officer of a service of the armed forces)
brass hat (a high-ranking military officer)
army officer (an officer in the armed forces)
adjutant; aide; aide-de-camp (an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer)
Derivation:
officer (direct or command as an officer)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust
Example:
the club elected its officers for the coming year
Synonyms:
officeholder; officer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("officer" is a kind of...):
holder (a person who holds something)
functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "officer"):
probation officer (the officer of the court who supervises probationers)
sergeant at arms; serjeant-at-arms (an officer (as of a legislature or court) who maintains order and executes commands)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel
Example:
he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines
Synonyms:
officer; ship's officer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("officer" is a kind of...):
gob; Jack; Jack-tar; mariner; old salt; sea dog; seafarer; seaman; tar (a man who serves as a sailor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "officer"):
supercargo (an officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase)
steward (the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements)
navigator; sailing master (the ship's officer in charge of navigation)
purser (an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare)
privateer; privateersman (an officer or crew member of a privateer)
first mate; mate (the officer below the master on a commercial ship)
captain; master; sea captain; skipper (an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship)
Derivation:
officer (direct or command as an officer)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A member of a police force
Example:
it was an accident, officer
Synonyms:
officer; police officer; policeman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("officer" is a kind of...):
law officer; lawman; peace officer (an officer of the law)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "officer"):
state trooper; trooper (a state police officer)
trooper (a mounted police officer)
traffic cop (a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic)
shoofly (an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen)
Mountie (colloquial term for a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
police matron; policewoman (a woman policeman)
motorcycle cop; motorcycle policeman; speed cop (a policeman who rides a motorcycle (and who checks the speeds of motorists))
inspector (a high ranking police officer)
gendarme (a French policeman)
detective; investigator; police detective; tec (a police officer who investigates crimes)
constable; police constable (a police officer of the lowest rank)
captain; police captain; police chief (a policeman in charge of a precinct)
bull; cop; copper; fuzz; pig (uncomplimentary terms for a policeman)
bobby (an informal term for a British policeman)
Holonyms ("officer" is a member of...):
constabulary; law; police; police force (the force of policemen and officers)
Derivation:
officer (direct or command as an officer)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Direct or command as an officer
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "officer" is one way to...):
command (be in command of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
officer (any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command)
officer (a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)
officer (a member of a police force)
Context examples:
This was all the information Mr. Billington could give me, so I went down to the port and saw the coastguards, the Customs officers and the harbour-master.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The eldest Miss Larkins knows officers.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"If you persist, you'll have to call that officer, and then you'll get your name in the papers," Martin answered grimly.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“Throw the door open, officer,” said Holmes.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I dared not ask the fatal question, but I was known, and the officer guessed the cause of my visit.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“Sir,” said the angry old sailor, “such an officer is at least in no danger of being mistaken for a privateersman.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A jacket with hanging sleeves, slashed with velvet at the neck and wrists, showed that he was a man of some consideration, an under-officer, or file-leader of his company.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The officer who presides at the meetings of an organization, committee, or other organizational structure.
(Chairperson, NCI Thesaurus)
"Hail - particularly large hail - can have significant economic impacts on agriculture and property," said Nick Anderson, a program officer in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences.
(Facial recognition technique could improve hail forecasts, National Science Foundation)
Observations with new and more capable technology can produce unexpected findings like MAMBO-9, said Joe Pesce, National Science Foundation program officer for ALMA and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
(ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight, National Science Foundation)
