Boss vs. Bose: What's the Difference?

An employer or supervisor.

To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.

One who makes decisions or exercises authority.

Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles; led to the description of fundamental particles that later came to be known as bosons

A professional politician who controls a party or a political machine.

A circular protuberance or knoblike swelling, as on the horns of certain animals.

A raised area used as ornamentation.

(Architecture) A raised ornament, such as one at the intersection of the ribs in a vaulted roof.

An enlarged part of a shaft to which another shaft is coupled or to which a wheel or gear is keyed.

A hub, especially of a propeller.

A cow or calf.

To give orders to, especially in an arrogant or domineering manner

To emboss.

First-rate; topnotch.

A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.

A person in charge of a business or company.

A leader, the head of an organized group or team.

The head of a political party in a given region or district.

A term of address to a man.

(video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.

(humorous) Wife.

A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.

(geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.

A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.

(mechanics) A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.

(architectural element) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.

(archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

A head or reservoir of water.

(obsolete) A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.

(transitive) To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.

(transitive) To decorate with bosses; to emboss.

Of excellent quality, first-rate.

Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus.

A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.

A head or reservoir of water.

A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.

To ornament with bosses; to stud.

A person who exercises control over workers;

A person responsible for hiring workers;

A person who exercises control and makes decisions;

A leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments;

A circular rounded projection or protuberance

Raise in a relief;

Exceptionally good;