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noun bɒsbɔs informal 1A person who is in charge of a worker or organization. 老板，上司，领导，工头 her boss offered her a promotion 她老板愿意给她升职。 工会领导。 Example sentencesExamples - Chorley shop worker Pam Dillon impressed bosses so much by telling them she was a former director, she earned herself a trip to the States.
- Blum's first act was to stop the strike wave by organising talks between the bosses and the unions.
- Lawyers have been called into a row between striking Boddingtons workers and their bosses.
- Hu, the PR manager of a local company, was assigned by his boss to organize a conference.
- One unexpected outcome would be the benefits it would bring to the workers rather than the bosses.
- So it would have come as a terrible shock to the system if the telly bosses had organised a fantastic line-up of must-see TV for the autumn.
- No bosses of the well-known organised crime groups were arrested.
- Countryside bosses have organised a meeting of the Friends of Blackshaw Brook, to discuss plans for the valley area in which the reservoirs lie.
- But night workers slammed bosses after they heard the news on the radio before they had been told by management.
- Four in 10 office workers say they think bosses regularly charge personal items back to the company.
- The tribunal heard that Mr Cahill had at one time worked under Mr Clark before a series of promotions eventually put him in charge of his former boss at the company's Thorp Arch headquarters.
- A former Ryedale museum worker was sacked after bosses discovered he had ignored basic safety rules when operating cutting machinery.
- Safety chiefs are warning businesses about a scam in which bosses are charged hundreds of pounds from a bogus health and safety organisation.
- Do you think this helps explain why today's corporate bosses are treating American workers like dogs?
- Union bosses believe railway maintenance workers are still risking their lives because lessons from the Tebay rail tragedy remain unlearned.
- Furious staff have lashed out at company bosses for not informing workers that the plant was in trouble before it became public knowledge.
- And the organisation's bosses in Preston have praised our readers for helping to catch dozens of criminals over the past 12 months.
- The strike threat forced bosses to offer workers extra money on the basic rate.
- Many Irish workers would like their bosses to help them fight the flab.
- The company would probably do just as well if the worker bees hated their bosses and most of their jobs.
Synonyms head, head man, head woman, top man, top woman, chief, principal, director, president, executive, chief executive, chair, chairperson, chairman, chairwoman, manager, manageress, administrator, leader, superintendent, supervisor, foreman, forewoman, overseer, controller, employer, master, owner, proprietor, patron - 1.1 A person in control of a group or situation.
头儿，主儿 does he see you as a partner, or is he already the boss? 他把你看成合伙人，还是他已经是头儿了？ Example sentencesExamples - The ENTIRE point of blogs is being the boss and controlling content.
- He is a centralist who makes clear to his Labour ministers that he is the boss.
- But you don't fully feel the weight of that until you get into that situation where you're the boss.
- Traditionally, men are supposed to be in control and be the boss at work.
- Litle compromises that show him he's in control and he's the boss.
- It does take a while to get used to, but remember, to teach your dog anything, you must be the leader and the boss.
- Again and again the contributors write of you as a sort of capo, the gaffer, the boss.
Synonyms head, head man, head woman, top man, top woman, chief, principal, director, president, executive, chief executive, chair, chairperson, chairman, chairwoman, manager, manageress, administrator, leader, superintendent, supervisor, foreman, forewoman, overseer, controller, employer, master, owner, proprietor, patron - 1.2often as modifier (in computer gaming) a particularly tough enemy, usually appearing at the end of a section or level.
（电脑游戏用语）头号敌人 the boss characters provide more than enough challenge 这些头号敌人角色提供了太多的挑战。 you may be required to kill a boss monster Example sentencesExamples - Amazingly, some of the larger enemies you've seen thus far are just enemies, and not bosses.
- I thought bosses were supposed to be tough, yet my party makes minced meat of them.
- You will race against 7 competitors or sometimes you may go up against a boss character.
- Of course, a word should also be said about the final boss.
- Random Dungeon rewards will be placed in each player's inventory automatically upon completion of the dungeon (final boss killed).
- Every character advances through the same set of areas and faces the same final boss (different from Classic mode).
- Enemies and architecture are top notch too, and a few of the bosses, while slightly humorous looking, are modeled exquisitely.
- Most bosses can be taken down with minimal effort without unleashing a single combination.
- The only criticism to this is that the bosses were easier!
- I think that your role playing games have got the most difficult final level bosses.
- Indeed, the boss designs in Contra III have since served as the model for what a boss should be.
- Each level, with the exception of the fifth, contains a security lock, which leads to the main boss.
- You'll also need to have the patience to shoot the boss long enough to bring a large health bar down to zero.
- Bosses make the music switch dynamically into "boss music".
- But even the boss fights provide no challenge, and there's no way to change the difficulty in the game's options.
- That videogame stalwart, the end-of-level boss, is back in fashion.
- These bosses are the greatest thing about this game: they range from gigantic armada battleship to big two-headed dragons!
- There's actually quite a bit of strategy involved in the boss battles.
- The boss, whatever it may have been, may have split into four smaller parts.
- This leads me to my final problem with the game, which are the boss battles.
verb bɒsbɔs [with object]informal Give (someone) orders in a domineering manner. 发号施令 you're always bossing us about 你总是对我们发号施令。 Example sentencesExamples - Yet, here was some employee of a private company bossing me around on public property in my own damn neighborhood.
- That would be George's younger sister, probably bossing him around like his mother now does.
- I knew mom wouldn't like it, but screw it, I was tired of her bossing me around, telling me what to do.
- She was always organising things, bossing people around, trying to be a power-businesswoman at age 18.
- The cook informed everyone that she had been hanging around the kitchen, bossing him into submission and demanding certain strange things to be packed.
- I'm guessing one was the trainee, because the other one seemed to be bossing him around a bit.
- It's not so much what goes on as the awful smell of raw sausage meat and standing up for 8 hours in a cold, noisy room with stupid attire and people in colour-coded hard hats bossing you around.
- It seems to me that this Government is reaching new heights in ordering and bossing people about and telling them what it expects them to do.
- Ishaan, who plays Shahid's nephew who comes to live with him after his parents die, loved bossing big brother around during the shoot.
- There's a fine line between standing up to your bud and bossing her around.
- How do you react when you are bossed around, treated as inferior or taken advantage of?
- They'll say, ‘Will you stop bossing me around?’
- She did believe in Santa, but she thought he was just some overlord who bossed his workers around and shopped at flea markets for her gifts.
- So basically I bossed him around for an hour and we got the whole delivery done in an hour.
- Basically what you want is someone to be considering your purpose at all times, bossing you around constantly, and not only that, they are expected to approach you on the matter to begin with.
- At least they weren't always bossing her around and ordering her around like a slave like Kinchi, but instead treated her like she had always wanted to be treated.
- You've always said how much you cherished my independence, but lately you've been bossing me around so much I just can't stand it.
- But I suppose when you spend your days bossing kids around, it's hard to remember how to communicate with adults.
- They sure weren't shy in bossing me around, though.
- Okay, so I'll probably get sent to the Tower for saying it, but I've had just about enough of the multimillionaire Windsor family bossing us all around.
Synonyms order about/around, give orders to, dictate to, impose one's will on, lord it over, bully, push around/about, domineer, dominate, ride roughshod over, trample on, try to control, pressurize, browbeat, use strong-arm tactics on throw one's weight about/around, call the shots, lay down the law informal bulldoze, walk all over, railroad, lean on
adjective bɒsbɔs North American informal Excellent; outstanding. 〈北美〉拔尖的，数一数二的 她是数一数二的人物。 Example sentencesExamples - I like that second picture the best; it's a boss shot!
Phrasesinformal Be self-employed. 自己当老板 since I'm my own boss, my hours are flexible Example sentencesExamples - ‘It's lovely being my own boss, but it's nice to be able to shut the door at the end of the day,’ she admits.
- But I think the great thing about this play, and the novel, is that Steinbeck's principles attract everyone: having your own place; being your own boss; not having to answer to anyone.
- Wonder Woman, on the other hand, was her own boss.
- I've had the autonomy that comes with being my own boss and the greater remuneration that comes from working in the States.
- So what could be better than being one's own boss and running a business from home?
- After his zillionaire left Montreal for the greener pastures of Toronto, Joey, who as a child dreamed of becoming a policeman, opted to start his own limo business and has been his own boss ever since.
- But they do take a lot of satisfaction from being their own boss, and for the foreseeable future the vast majority expect to stay in farming.
- Touring as a solo artist, however, is a different matter as Haris is her own boss.
- I suppose that's why I've almost always been my own boss since then.
- Have you ever thought about being your own boss?
- He'll tell me that I am wasting my life in the corporate world and that I can only realise my true potential by being my own boss.
- Other positive aspects included working in open air, being your own boss and personal reward.
- You might have daydreamed for years about being your own boss, running your own business, having visions of chucking in the nine-to-five routine and doing your own thing.
- Or if you'd prefer to be your own boss, all you need to do is get a few bucks and a taste for ice cream.
- ‘I was my own boss, I had a company van and my mates would drop in and we could listen to the rock music all day long,’ says Baldock.
- ‘The 18-month long project has been a great success in portraying how rewarding and challenging being your own boss can be,’ he said.
- The rewards are very much about being able to work for yourself; about being your own boss.
- I was my own boss by 21, trading professionally in the retail game.
- One objective is to double the number of young people aspiring to be their own boss, which stands at about 15%, according to Enterprise Insight research.
- Other bonuses included not being ‘chained’ to a desk, being your own boss and having a good social life at work.
informal Make it clear that it is oneself who is in charge. 让别人明白是自己说了算 now it's time to show her who's boss 现在该让她明白是谁说了算。 Example sentencesExamples - Just to show them who's boss I kicked at their jaws and scolded them down.
- So, you say that you'll have to get a hold of her sometime and really show her who's boss, that she needs to know how bad she has been.
- I do have to keep them on their toes and show them who's boss.
- Okay, so imagine this: a so-called friend has been trying to walk all over you all week and now it's time to show her who's boss.
- Howard Jarvis used to say it is time to show the politicians who is the boss.
- Dressed in Clan sweaters, red and blue scarves, funny hats, and gobs of face paint, they come in droves to show UBC who's boss and assert SFU dominance.
- We're going to show you who's boss.
- It's my job to contain that, get him under control and then show who's the boss.
- Wednesday Tony Blair is shown who's boss by the ladies of the Women's Institute at their annual conference in London.
- Does he really believe in, and worship, a God who arbitrarily decides to kill people just to show them who's boss?
- ‘They will show her who's boss,’ said the Prince.
- When nature decides to show us who's boss, we just have to hunker down and hope for the best.
- Someday he'd show Namako who's boss, but this wasn't the day.
- And then, once every few days, we would go to a village to shoot pheasants, just to show them who's boss.
- They think that training involves dominating a horse, showing him who's boss.
- She leapt at them, hissing and howling and growling, trying to get at them, to show them who's boss around here.
- Just because the candidates on the left ran a poor election doesn't mean you should try and elect a racist to show them who's boss.
- He called a special election to show them who's boss and guess what happened?
- Girls, get out your laser guns and show them who's boss.
- Now George is looking forward to showing Floyd who's boss when they walk out at Bothwell Castle today - just as he did in Barbados ten years ago.
OriginEarly 19th century (originally US): from Dutch baas 'master'. Rhymesacross, Bros, cos, cross, crosse, doss, dross, emboss, en brosse, floss, fosse, gloss, Goss, joss, Kos, lacrosse, loss, moss, MS-DOS, Ross noun bɒsbɔs 1A stud on the centre of a shield. 盾牌的中心饰扣 Example sentencesExamples - As we walked by I saw Yrling's and Toki's war-kits, for they were easy to discern by the fineness of the helmets and the gilt upon the bosses of their shields.
- Thorfast would at least have had a heavy wooden shield with a metal boss that he'd have held on his left arm. and an eight-foot-long, metal-tipped ash spear.
- However, a sword, a battle-axe, a shield boss and a spearhead were still inside the grave.
- A number of other male graves contained shield bosses and spear heads, although all traces of the wooden shields and spears had long disappeared.
- While a fragmented helmet had been unusually wrought from one piece of iron, the shield boss and sword pommel can only be paralleled by Swedish finds.
- 1.1Architecture An ornamental carving covering the point where the ribs in a vault or ceiling cross.
〔建筑〕浮饰 Example sentencesExamples - Its central boss depicts The Fall of Man showing Adam tempted by the fruit of the serpent-entwined tree.
- The bosses of the south porch are especially noteworthy: both are fearsome grotesques with toothed mouths.
- In the medieval Hall of St Mary, Green Men occur as bosses, corbels, in tapestry, and in stained glass.
- The central boss, tying together the ribs of the vaulting, is carved with a double Green Man, the two faces looking in opposite directions.
- The western bay of the vault, built in 1362, carries a hanging boss suspended by eight dramatic flying ribs.
- Four floral bosses help secure the flying ribs, while an intricate carved star hangs from the center and anchors the inner square.
- Roof bosses, like sedilia and gargoyles, were often given humorous or grotesque decoration although foliate carving was also common.
- Again circle and arc motifs frame the central boss and create interesting geometric figures across the flat extent of the ceiling.
- Of the remaining 12 bosses, six were salvaged from the original ceiling while the remainder were designed by Blue Peter viewers.
- 1.2 The central part of a propeller.
（螺旋桨的）轮毂 Example sentencesExamples - This kept her propeller boss under water but left the blades breaking the surface.
- Its surface may be flat or curved, or may have a pronounced central boss; its edges may be flat or flanged.
- A single-seater aircraft, it looked rather tiny, but the 37 mm cannon in its nose, its barrel protruding through the propeller boss, was not.
2Geology
A large mass of igneous rock protruding through other strata. 〔地质〕岩瘤 Example sentencesExamples - Shortly after a chamber with a small shaft off to the left, you need to slide past an impressive stalagmitic boss.
- They are commonly exposed as small stocks, bosses, sheets and dykes and are often intimately related to the granitoids outlined above.
- The first drops down a fissure in the floor, which leads down to a stalagmite boss partway along the hand traverse.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French boce, of unknown origin. OriginEarly 19th century: of unknown origin. abbreviation Bureau of State Security.
nounbôsbɔs informal 1A person in charge of a worker or organization. 老板，上司，领导，工头 工会领导。 I asked my boss for a promotion Example sentencesExamples - Countryside bosses have organised a meeting of the Friends of Blackshaw Brook, to discuss plans for the valley area in which the reservoirs lie.
- Blum's first act was to stop the strike wave by organising talks between the bosses and the unions.
- And the organisation's bosses in Preston have praised our readers for helping to catch dozens of criminals over the past 12 months.
- So it would have come as a terrible shock to the system if the telly bosses had organised a fantastic line-up of must-see TV for the autumn.
- But night workers slammed bosses after they heard the news on the radio before they had been told by management.
- Four in 10 office workers say they think bosses regularly charge personal items back to the company.
- Union bosses believe railway maintenance workers are still risking their lives because lessons from the Tebay rail tragedy remain unlearned.
- A former Ryedale museum worker was sacked after bosses discovered he had ignored basic safety rules when operating cutting machinery.
- No bosses of the well-known organised crime groups were arrested.
- The company would probably do just as well if the worker bees hated their bosses and most of their jobs.
- Chorley shop worker Pam Dillon impressed bosses so much by telling them she was a former director, she earned herself a trip to the States.
- One unexpected outcome would be the benefits it would bring to the workers rather than the bosses.
- Lawyers have been called into a row between striking Boddingtons workers and their bosses.
- Safety chiefs are warning businesses about a scam in which bosses are charged hundreds of pounds from a bogus health and safety organisation.
- Furious staff have lashed out at company bosses for not informing workers that the plant was in trouble before it became public knowledge.
- The tribunal heard that Mr Cahill had at one time worked under Mr Clark before a series of promotions eventually put him in charge of his former boss at the company's Thorp Arch headquarters.
- Do you think this helps explain why today's corporate bosses are treating American workers like dogs?
- The strike threat forced bosses to offer workers extra money on the basic rate.
- Hu, the PR manager of a local company, was assigned by his boss to organize a conference.
- Many Irish workers would like their bosses to help them fight the flab.
Synonyms head, head man, head woman, top man, top woman, chief, principal, director, president, executive, chief executive, chair, chairperson, chairman, chairwoman, manager, manageress, administrator, leader, superintendent, supervisor, foreman, forewoman, overseer, controller, employer, master, owner, proprietor, patron - 1.1 A person in control of a group or situation.
头儿，主儿 the boss of the largest crime family in the country Example sentencesExamples - But you don't fully feel the weight of that until you get into that situation where you're the boss.
- Again and again the contributors write of you as a sort of capo, the gaffer, the boss.
- Traditionally, men are supposed to be in control and be the boss at work.
- Litle compromises that show him he's in control and he's the boss.
- The ENTIRE point of blogs is being the boss and controlling content.
- It does take a while to get used to, but remember, to teach your dog anything, you must be the leader and the boss.
- He is a centralist who makes clear to his Labour ministers that he is the boss.
Synonyms head, head man, head woman, top man, top woman, chief, principal, director, president, executive, chief executive, chair, chairperson, chairman, chairwoman, manager, manageress, administrator, leader, superintendent, supervisor, foreman, forewoman, overseer, controller, employer, master, owner, proprietor, patron
verbbôsbɔs [with object]informal Give (someone) orders in a domineering manner. 发号施令 plump old battle-axes bossing everyone around Example sentencesExamples - Ishaan, who plays Shahid's nephew who comes to live with him after his parents die, loved bossing big brother around during the shoot.
- It's not so much what goes on as the awful smell of raw sausage meat and standing up for 8 hours in a cold, noisy room with stupid attire and people in colour-coded hard hats bossing you around.
- Basically what you want is someone to be considering your purpose at all times, bossing you around constantly, and not only that, they are expected to approach you on the matter to begin with.
- How do you react when you are bossed around, treated as inferior or taken advantage of?
- There's a fine line between standing up to your bud and bossing her around.
- She did believe in Santa, but she thought he was just some overlord who bossed his workers around and shopped at flea markets for her gifts.
- Okay, so I'll probably get sent to the Tower for saying it, but I've had just about enough of the multimillionaire Windsor family bossing us all around.
- It seems to me that this Government is reaching new heights in ordering and bossing people about and telling them what it expects them to do.
- She was always organising things, bossing people around, trying to be a power-businesswoman at age 18.
- But I suppose when you spend your days bossing kids around, it's hard to remember how to communicate with adults.
- They'll say, ‘Will you stop bossing me around?’
- The cook informed everyone that she had been hanging around the kitchen, bossing him into submission and demanding certain strange things to be packed.
- I'm guessing one was the trainee, because the other one seemed to be bossing him around a bit.
- At least they weren't always bossing her around and ordering her around like a slave like Kinchi, but instead treated her like she had always wanted to be treated.
- So basically I bossed him around for an hour and we got the whole delivery done in an hour.
- Yet, here was some employee of a private company bossing me around on public property in my own damn neighborhood.
- They sure weren't shy in bossing me around, though.
- I knew mom wouldn't like it, but screw it, I was tired of her bossing me around, telling me what to do.
- You've always said how much you cherished my independence, but lately you've been bossing me around so much I just can't stand it.
- That would be George's younger sister, probably bossing him around like his mother now does.
Synonyms order about, order around, give orders to, dictate to, impose one's will on, lord it over, bully, push about, push around, domineer, dominate, ride roughshod over, trample on, try to control, pressurize, browbeat, use strong-arm tactics on
adjectivebôsbɔs North American informal attributive Excellent; outstanding. 〈北美〉拔尖的，数一数二的 她是数一数二的人物。 Example sentencesExamples - I like that second picture the best; it's a boss shot!
Phrasesinformal Be self-employed. 自己当老板 Example sentencesExamples - You might have daydreamed for years about being your own boss, running your own business, having visions of chucking in the nine-to-five routine and doing your own thing.
- After his zillionaire left Montreal for the greener pastures of Toronto, Joey, who as a child dreamed of becoming a policeman, opted to start his own limo business and has been his own boss ever since.
- Touring as a solo artist, however, is a different matter as Haris is her own boss.
- Wonder Woman, on the other hand, was her own boss.
- Other bonuses included not being ‘chained’ to a desk, being your own boss and having a good social life at work.
- The rewards are very much about being able to work for yourself; about being your own boss.
- I was my own boss by 21, trading professionally in the retail game.
- Have you ever thought about being your own boss?
- So what could be better than being one's own boss and running a business from home?
- ‘I was my own boss, I had a company van and my mates would drop in and we could listen to the rock music all day long,’ says Baldock.
- He'll tell me that I am wasting my life in the corporate world and that I can only realise my true potential by being my own boss.
- I've had the autonomy that comes with being my own boss and the greater remuneration that comes from working in the States.
- One objective is to double the number of young people aspiring to be their own boss, which stands at about 15%, according to Enterprise Insight research.
- I suppose that's why I've almost always been my own boss since then.
- ‘The 18-month long project has been a great success in portraying how rewarding and challenging being your own boss can be,’ he said.
- Or if you'd prefer to be your own boss, all you need to do is get a few bucks and a taste for ice cream.
- But I think the great thing about this play, and the novel, is that Steinbeck's principles attract everyone: having your own place; being your own boss; not having to answer to anyone.
- ‘It's lovely being my own boss, but it's nice to be able to shut the door at the end of the day,’ she admits.
- Other positive aspects included working in open air, being your own boss and personal reward.
- But they do take a lot of satisfaction from being their own boss, and for the foreseeable future the vast majority expect to stay in farming.
informal Make it clear that one is in charge. 让别人明白是自己说了算 Example sentencesExamples - I do have to keep them on their toes and show them who's boss.
- When nature decides to show us who's boss, we just have to hunker down and hope for the best.
- Does he really believe in, and worship, a God who arbitrarily decides to kill people just to show them who's boss?
- Wednesday Tony Blair is shown who's boss by the ladies of the Women's Institute at their annual conference in London.
- Okay, so imagine this: a so-called friend has been trying to walk all over you all week and now it's time to show her who's boss.
- Someday he'd show Namako who's boss, but this wasn't the day.
- We're going to show you who's boss.
- Now George is looking forward to showing Floyd who's boss when they walk out at Bothwell Castle today - just as he did in Barbados ten years ago.
- Howard Jarvis used to say it is time to show the politicians who is the boss.
- She leapt at them, hissing and howling and growling, trying to get at them, to show them who's boss around here.
- Just because the candidates on the left ran a poor election doesn't mean you should try and elect a racist to show them who's boss.
- They think that training involves dominating a horse, showing him who's boss.
- Dressed in Clan sweaters, red and blue scarves, funny hats, and gobs of face paint, they come in droves to show UBC who's boss and assert SFU dominance.
- Girls, get out your laser guns and show them who's boss.
- ‘They will show her who's boss,’ said the Prince.
- And then, once every few days, we would go to a village to shoot pheasants, just to show them who's boss.
- Just to show them who's boss I kicked at their jaws and scolded them down.
- He called a special election to show them who's boss and guess what happened?
- It's my job to contain that, get him under control and then show who's the boss.
- So, you say that you'll have to get a hold of her sometime and really show her who's boss, that she needs to know how bad she has been.
OriginEarly 19th century (originally US): from Dutch baas ‘master’. nounbôsbɔs 1A stud on the center of a shield. 盾牌的中心饰扣 Example sentencesExamples - Thorfast would at least have had a heavy wooden shield with a metal boss that he'd have held on his left arm. and an eight-foot-long, metal-tipped ash spear.
- However, a sword, a battle-axe, a shield boss and a spearhead were still inside the grave.
- As we walked by I saw Yrling's and Toki's war-kits, for they were easy to discern by the fineness of the helmets and the gilt upon the bosses of their shields.
- While a fragmented helmet had been unusually wrought from one piece of iron, the shield boss and sword pommel can only be paralleled by Swedish finds.
- A number of other male graves contained shield bosses and spear heads, although all traces of the wooden shields and spears had long disappeared.
- 1.1Architecture A piece of ornamental carving covering the point where the ribs in a vault or ceiling cross.
〔建筑〕浮饰 Example sentencesExamples - In the medieval Hall of St Mary, Green Men occur as bosses, corbels, in tapestry, and in stained glass.
- Its central boss depicts The Fall of Man showing Adam tempted by the fruit of the serpent-entwined tree.
- The western bay of the vault, built in 1362, carries a hanging boss suspended by eight dramatic flying ribs.
- The central boss, tying together the ribs of the vaulting, is carved with a double Green Man, the two faces looking in opposite directions.
- Of the remaining 12 bosses, six were salvaged from the original ceiling while the remainder were designed by Blue Peter viewers.
- Again circle and arc motifs frame the central boss and create interesting geometric figures across the flat extent of the ceiling.
- Four floral bosses help secure the flying ribs, while an intricate carved star hangs from the center and anchors the inner square.
- Roof bosses, like sedilia and gargoyles, were often given humorous or grotesque decoration although foliate carving was also common.
- The bosses of the south porch are especially noteworthy: both are fearsome grotesques with toothed mouths.
2Geology
A large mass of igneous rock protruding through other strata. 〔地质〕岩瘤 Example sentencesExamples - Shortly after a chamber with a small shaft off to the left, you need to slide past an impressive stalagmitic boss.
- They are commonly exposed as small stocks, bosses, sheets and dykes and are often intimately related to the granitoids outlined above.
- The first drops down a fissure in the floor, which leads down to a stalagmite boss partway along the hand traverse.
3Mechanics
An enlarged part of a shaft. Example sentencesExamples - The sights are conventional, with a front blade mounted atop a boss on the barrel.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French boce, of unknown origin. nounbôsbɔs US informal A cow. 〈美，非正式〉母牛 Compare with bossy
OriginEarly 19th century: of unknown origin. |