Boss vs Sovereign - What's the difference?
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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.
(architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
(archery) the 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.
To decorate with bosses; to emboss.
(obsolete) A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.
* 1916 , , Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 36:
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.
(informal) 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.
To exercise authoritative control over; to lord over; to boss around; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.
* 1931 , Robert L. May, Rudolph'', ''The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher):
* 1932 , Lorine Pruette, The Parent and the Happy Child , page 76
* 1967 , Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The purloined paperweight , page 90
* 1980 , Jean Toomer The wayward and the seeking: a collection of writings by Jean Toomer , page 40
(slang, American, Liverpool) Of excellent quality, first-rate.
Exercising power of rule.
Exceptional in quality.
Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.v:
* (rfdate) Dryden
* (rfdate) South
Having supreme, ultimate power.
Princely; royal.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
* (rfdate) Hooker
A monarch; the ruler of a country.
* Jefferson
One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33? standard bottles.
Any butterfly of the tribe , as the (ursula) and the viceroy.
Boss is a related term of sovereign.
As nouns the difference between boss and sovereign
is that boss is boss (person in charge, supervisor) while sovereign is a monarch; the ruler of a country.As an adjective sovereign is
exercising power of rule.boss
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bos, bose, boce, from (etyl) .Noun
(es)- (Gwilt)
Derived terms
* bossless * bosslike * embossVerb
(es)Etymology 2
Apparently a corruption of (bass).Noun
(es)- All were waiting : uncle Charles, who sat far away in the shadow of the window, Dante and Mr Casey, who sat in the easy chairs at either side of the hearth, Stephen, seated on a chair between them, his feet resting on a toasting boss .
Synonyms
* (hassock or footrest): footrest, hassockEtymology 3
From (etyl) baas, from (etyl) . Originally a term of respect used to address an older relative, later, in , it began to mean a person in charge who is not a master.Noun
(es)- Chat turned to whisper when the boss entered the conference room.
- My boss complains that I'm always late to work.
- They named him boss because he had good leadership skills.
- He is the Republican boss in Kentucky.
- Yes, boss .
- There's no olive oil, will sunflower oil do? — I'll have to run that by the boss .
Synonyms
* (person in charge of a business or company): employer * (person who oversees and directs the work of others): line manager, manager, supervisor * (leader of an organized group or team): head, leader * (head of a political party in a given region or district): leader * : gov/guv (UK), guvnor (UK), mate (UK) * See alsoDerived terms
* boss battle * boss fight * miniboss * final boss * show someone who's boss * you're the bossVerb
(es)- By YOU last night’s journey was actually bossed / Without you, I’m certain, we’d all have been lost.
- His sisters bossed him and spoiled him. All their lives he was to go on being their little brother, who could do no wrong, because he was the baby; [...]
- She bossed him, and he's never gotten over it. She still orders him around, and instead of telling her to go soak her head, he just says 'Yes, ma'am' as weak as a newborn jellyfish [...]
- For if, on the one hand, I bossed him and showed him what to do and how to do it, [...]
Derived terms
* boss about, boss aroundAdjective
(-)- ''Don't you think surfing's boss ?
Anagrams
* * ----sovereign
English
(wikipedia sovereign)Adjective
(en adjective)- sovereign nation
- The soueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine / She pownded small, and did in peeces bruze, / And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, / Into his wound the iuyce thereof did scruze
- a sovereign remedy
- Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.
- most sovereign name
- We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.
Derived terms
* sovereignlySynonyms
* autonomous * supremeNoun
(en noun)- No question is to be made but that the bed of the Mississippi belongs to the sovereign , that is, to the nation.