Boss vs. Leader — What's the Difference?

A person who is in charge of a worker or organization

One that leads or guides.

A stud on the centre of a shield.

One who is in charge or in command of others.

A large mass of igneous rock protruding through other strata.

One who heads a political party or organization.

A cow.

One who has influence or power, especially of a political nature.

Give (someone) orders in a domineering manner

A conductor, especially of an orchestra, band, or choral group.

Excellent; outstanding

The principal performer in an orchestral section or a group.

An employer or supervisor.

The foremost animal, such as a horse or dog, in a harnessed team.

One who makes decisions or exercises authority.

A loss leader.

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

Chiefly British The main editorial in a newspaper.

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

Leaders(Printing) Dots or dashes in a row leading the eye across a page, as in an index entry.

A raised area used as ornamentation.

A pipe for conducting liquid.

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

A short length of fishing line between the main line and the hook.

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

A blank strip at the end or beginning of a film or tape used in threading or winding.

A hub, especially of a propeller.

(Botany) The growing apex or main shoot of a shrub or tree.

A cow or calf.

An economic indicator.

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

Any person who leads or directs.

To emboss.

One who goes first.

First-rate; topnotch.

One having authority to direct.

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

One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.

A person in charge of a business or company.

A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.

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

(music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.

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

The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.

A term of address to a man.

An animal that leads.

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

The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.

(humorous) Wife.

An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs

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

Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.

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

Someone or something that leads or conducts.

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

(botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.

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

A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.

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

The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.

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

(fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.

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 piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.

A head or reservoir of water.

An intertitle.

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

(marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.

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

(printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.

(transitive) To decorate with bosses; to emboss.

A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.

Of excellent quality, first-rate.

(fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.

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

(mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.

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.

(nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.

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

(engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.

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.

(meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.

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

One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.

A head or reservoir of water.

A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.

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

The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.

To ornament with bosses; to stud.

A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.

A person who exercises control over workers;

A person who rules or guides or inspires others

A person responsible for hiring workers;

A featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers

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;