command

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It will remember the last editing command, just as Vi, and repeat it when you press .

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Quick take

an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of command gathered in one view.

noun

an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

noun

a military unit or region under the control of a single officer

noun

the power or authority to command; "an admiral in command"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for command.

noun

an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

noun

a military unit or region under the control of a single officer

noun

the power or authority to command; "an admiral in command"

noun

availability for use; "the materials at the command of the potters grew"

noun

a position of highest authority; "the corporation has just undergone a change in command"

noun

great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French"

noun

(computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program

verb

be in command of; "The general commanded a huge army"

verb

make someone do something

verb

demand as one's due; "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"

verb

look down on; "The villa dominates the town"

verb

exercise authoritative control or power over; "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"

Example sentences

It will remember the last editing command, just as Vi, and repeat it when you press .

The lack of an overt chain of command means that power asserts itself covertly.

Bash, running in your terminal, understands both the Emacs and the Vi commands.

A really weak area was the command language for the actions to be taken on an event.

The problem I'd gotten chewed out for trying to surface but been told "won't fix" all the way up and down the chain of command.

If you're feeling oppressed and excluded by a command name, your real problems lie elsewhere.

That's very similar to many other distros except you don't need to run the command.

For most, it was their first time facing a grieving widow with a young child hugging her leg. Those stories, coupled with the blame, changed the landscape of command.

No need to learn any command-line programs, formatting \Syn\{TaX}, or keyboard shortcuts.

Again, I was good at learning the basics, reading code, messing around with code snippets on the command line.

Note: if you don't activate or run this command instead, then Windows will shut itself down after 15 minutes.- Open up IE.

If you don't understand git, then don't mess around with 'rebase', 'push -f', or any other command that tries to edit history.

Half of Phonegap's documentation refers to "Cordova" and executing "cordova" on the command line where it should say "Phonegap".

Pardon me while I go write a cron entry running that command every minute so that my system can stay in good shape!> When arriving to work the first thing was to hit repair disk permissionsThis is absolutely astonishing.

I've worked for some very good women bosses and a women CEO and I admired their ability to find that balance and presentation style that gave them command without them appearing as an "angry bitch" or "stupid".I've also worked with some women that couldn't find that balance, they weren't really doing anything a reasonably competent man wouldn't do, but were marked with gendered epithets and eventually driven from their job.

Proper noun examples

Commands that have different names between Cordova and Phonegap are still documented as the Cordova equivalent, so one must use Google to find other people who searched for hours until they themselves came across the explanation that the same command in Phonegap requires the use of a completely different word.