command | (noun) the power or authority to command | - |
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(noun) availability for use | - |
(noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: control, mastery |
(noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, dictation |
(noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: instruction, program line, statement |
(noun) a military unit or region under the control of a single officer | - |
(noun) a position of highest authority | - |
(verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: require |
(verb) be in command of | - |
(verb) demand as one's due | - |
(verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: control |
(verb) look down on | Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop |
countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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(verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
demand | (noun) the act of demanding | - |
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(noun) required activity | Synonyms: requirement |
(noun) an urgent or peremptory request | - |
(noun) the ability and desire to purchase goods and services | - |
(noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: need |
(verb) request urgently and forcefully | - |
(verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: exact |
(verb) summon to court | - |
(verb) ask to be informed of | - |
(verb) lay legal claim to | - |
(verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
gourmand | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman |
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remand | (noun) the act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial) | - |
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(verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remit, send back |
(verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars |
reprimand | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reproof, reproval |
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(verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, criminate |
(verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, scold, take to task, trounce |