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noun
1.
a person who employs or superintends workers; manager.
2.
a politician who controls the party organization, as in a particular district.
3.
a person who makes decisions, exercises authority, dominates, etc.: My grandfather was the boss in his family.
verb (used with object)
4.
to be master of or over; manage; direct; control.
5.
to order about, especially in an arrogant manner.
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Bossing
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
verb (used without object)
6.
to be boss.
7.
to be too domineering and authoritative.
Origin:
1640–50, Americanism; < Dutch baas master, foreman
1640–50, Americanism; < Dutch baas master, foreman
Synonyms
1. supervisor, head, foreman, chief, superintendent, administrator, overseer.
1. supervisor, head, foreman, chief, superintendent, administrator, overseer.
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noun
1.
Botany, Zoology. a protuberance or roundish excrescence on the body or on some organ of an animal or plant.
2.
3.
an ornamental protuberance of metal, ivory, etc.; stud.
4.
Architecture.
a.
an ornamental, knoblike projection, as a carved keystone at the intersection of ogives.
b.
a stone roughly formed and set in place for later carving.
5.
EXPANDBookbinding. one of several pieces of brass or other metal inset into the cover of a book to protect the corners or edges or for decoration.
6.
Machinery. a small projection on a casting or forging.
7.
COLLAPSENautical. a projecting part in a ship's hull, or in one frame of a hull, fitting around a propeller shaft.
verb (used with object)
8.
to ornament with bosses.
9.
to emboss.
10.
(in plumbing) to hammer (sheet metal, as lead) to conform to an irregular surface.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English boce < Anglo-French: lump, growth, boil; Old French < Vulgar Latin *bottia, of uncertain origin
1250–1300; Middle English boce < Anglo-French: lump, growth, boil; Old French < Vulgar Latin *bottia, of uncertain origin
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Word Origin & History
boss
"protuberance, button," c.1300, from O.Fr. boce "a hump, swelling, tumor" (12c., Mod.Fr. bosse), from either Frank. *botija or V.L. *bottia, both of uncertain origin.
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Medical Dictionary
boss (bôs)
n.
A circumscribed rounded swelling; a protuberance.
The prominence of a kyphosis or humpback.
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