chief

1. chief (noun) — sense 1

Definition: The leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other group.

Example: All firefighters report to the fire chief.

2. chief (noun) — sense 2

Definition: Headship, the status of being a chief or leader.

Example: Bob is our troubleshooter in chief.

3. chief (noun) — sense 3

Definition: The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third.

Example: When the Chief is Charged with any figure, in blazon it is said to be "On a Chief".

4. chief (adj) — sense 4

Definition: Primary; principal.

Example: Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster.

5. chief (adj) — sense 5

Definition: Intimate, friendly.

Example: 'You’re doing it because she was your friend, not because she was a parishioner, and certainly not because of the Declaratory Articles,' Macmurray said, pushing himself forward on his seat. 'Everybody knows how chief you and she were. It was an unfitting relationship for a minister while she was alive, and it is equally unfitting for you to do her a favour like this now she's dead.'

6. chief (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To smoke cannabis.