Command

Command may refer to:

  • Command (computing), a statement in a computer language
  • COMMAND.COM, the default operating system shell and command-line interpreter for DOS
  • Command (military formation), an organizational unit
  • Command key, a modifier key on Apple Macintosh computer keyboards
  • Command pattern, a software design pattern in which objects represent actions
  • Command Records, a record label
  • Command (album), a 2009 studio album by Client
  • Command paper, a policy paper or report issued by, for or to the British government
  • Command and control, the exercise of authority in a military organization
  • Command, a sentence using the imperative mood
  • Command (baseball), the ability of a pitcher to throw a pitch where he intends to
  • Command (teaching style)

Famous quotes containing the word command:

    “You must neither add anything to what I command you nor take away anything from it, but keep the commandments of the LORD your God with which I am charging you.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 4:2.

    “Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
    In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
    An ancestor was rector there
    Long years ago, a church stands near,
    By the road an ancient cross.
    No marble, no conventional phrase;
    On limestone quarried near the spot
    By his command these words are cut:
    Cast a cold eye
    On life, on death.
    Horseman pass by!”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Diamonds may have been a girl’s best friend in an era when a woman’s only hope of having a high family income was to marry a man who was well-off, but today, marketable skills that will enable a woman to command a good income over her lifetime are a better investment.”
    —Grace Baruch (20th century)