Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - skipper
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Skipper
skipper
(skippers, skippering, skippered) 1. You can use skipper to refer to the captain of a ship or boat. ...the skipper of an English fishing boat... Gunfire, skipper! = captain N-COUNT; N-VOC 2. You can use skipper to refer to the captain of a sports team. The England skipper is confident. = captain N-COUNT: usu supp N 3. To skipper a team or a boat means to be the captain of it. He skippered the second Rugby XV... = captain VERB: V n
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I. noun Date: 13th century 1. any of various erratically active insects (as a click beetle or a water strider) 2. one that skips 3. saury 4. any of a superfamily (Hesperioidea, especially family Hesperiidae) of lepidopterous insects that visibly differ from the typical butterflies especially in having stout bodies, smaller wings, and usually hooked antennae II. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle Dutch schipper, from schip ship; akin to Old English scip ship — more at ship Date: 14th century 1. the master of a ship; especially the master of a fishing, small trading, or pleasure boat 2. the captain or first pilot of an airplane 3. a person in a position of leadership; especially a baseball team's manager III. transitive verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: 1893 1. to act as ~ of (as a boat) 2. to act as coach of (as a team) ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a sea captain, esp. the master of a small trading or fishing vessel. 2 the captain of an aircraft. 3 the captain of a side in games. --v.tr. act as captain of. Etymology: ME f. MDu., MLG schipper f. schip SHIP 2. n. 1 a person who skips. 2 any brown thick-bodied butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1) прыгающее насекомое 2) энт. толстоголовка; pl толстоголовки (Hesperiidae) 3) скумбрещука, макрелещука (Scomberesox); pl скумбрещуковые, макрелещуковые (Scomberesocidae) – cheese skippers – giant skippers – grizzled skipper – least skipper – mud skipper – tufted skipper ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
4.
1. шкипер; капитан торгового судна 2. мор. разг. командир корабля 3. ам. ав. разг. командир воздушного корабля 4. разг. капитан (спортивной) команды 5. разг. хозяин, босс 6. разг. черт, дьявол Id: skipper's daughters —- волны с барашками ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) шкипер, капитан (торгового судна); naut. coll. командир корабля 2) amer.; aeron. coll. командир корабля или старший пилот 3) капитан (спортивной команды) skippers daughters - высокие волны с белыми гребнями ...Англо-русский словарь
6.
~1 n informal 1 the person in charge of a ship 2 the leader of a sports team ~2 v informal to be in charge of a ship, sports team etc ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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