Definitions for commanding

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commanding com·mand·ing

Spelling: [kuh-man-ding, -mahn-]

IPA: /kəˈmæn dɪŋ, -ˈmɑn-/

Commanding is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 368 anagrams from letters in commanding (acdgimmnno).

Definitions for commanding

noun

1. the act of commanding or ordering.
2. an order given by one in authority:
3. Military. an order in prescribed words, usually given in a loud voice to troops at close-order drill: . the order of execution or the second part of any two-part close-order drill command, as face in Right face! (initial capital letter) a principal component of the U.S. Air Force: a body of troops or a station, ship, etc., under a commander.
4. the possession or exercise of controlling authority:
5. expertise; mastery:
6. British. a royal order.
7. power of dominating a region by reason of location; extent of view or outlook:
8. Computers. an electric impulse, signal, or set of signals for initiating an operation in a computer. a character, symbol, or item of information for instructing a computer to perform a specific task. a single instruction.

adjective

1. being in command:
2. appreciably superior or imposing; winning; sizable:
3. having the air, tone, etc., of command; imposing; authoritative:
4. dominating by position, usually elevation; overlooking:
5. (of a view, or prospect) provided by a commanding location and so permitting dominance:
6. of, relating to, or for use in the exercise of command:
7. of or relating to a commander:
8. ordered by a sovereign, as if by a sovereign, or by the exigencies of a situation:

verb (used with object)

1. to direct with specific authority or prerogative; order:
2. to require authoritatively; demand:
3. to have or exercise authority or control over; be master of; have at one's bidding or disposal:
4. to deserve and receive (respect, sympathy, attention, etc.):
5. to dominate by reason of location; overlook:
6. to have authority over and responsibility for (a military or naval unit or installation); be in charge of.

verb (used without object)

1. to issue an order or orders.
2. to be in charge; have authority.
3. to occupy a dominating position; look down upon or over a body of water, region, etc.

Origin of commanding

First recorded in 1475-85; command + -ing²

Examples for commanding

As his later wartime record would show, Jackson was extremely competent in the many skills required of a commanding general.

This was the commanding verdict of the people, and it will not be unheeded.

This is both an outstanding work of scholarship and a commanding visual document.

It was that of Demosthenes, concise, energetic, and commanding.

A God-in-Chief was therefore created, like the commanding general of an army.

Early polling shows her with a commanding—if not outright prohibitive—lead among Democratic voters.

The view from the summit of the hill is commanding and beautiful, but its grape is unique.

His was a commanding physique, hard as the grim plains from which he wrested his living.

Scourges, he says, “are killers who act, momentarily, as agents freed from sacred order and its commanding truths.”

At one point the commanding general, General Throckmorton, was told that there was gunfire raking a street.