Boss vs. Subordinate — What's the Difference?

A person who is in charge of a worker or organization

Lower in rank or position

A stud on the centre of a shield.

A person under the authority or control of another within an organization

A large mass of igneous rock protruding through other strata.

Treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else

A cow.

Belonging to a lower or inferior class or rank; secondary.

Give (someone) orders in a domineering manner

Subject to the authority or control of another.

Excellent; outstanding

One that is subordinate.

An employer or supervisor.

To put in a lower or inferior rank or class.

One who makes decisions or exercises authority.

To make subservient; subdue.

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

Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.

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

Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.

A raised area used as ornamentation.

Dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause

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

Descending in a regular series.

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

(countable) One who is subordinate.

A hub, especially of a propeller.

(transitive) To make subservient.

A cow or calf.

(transitive) To treat as of less value or importance.

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

To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.

To emboss.

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

First-rate; topnotch.

Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.

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

One who stands in order or rank below another; - distinguished from a principal.

A person in charge of a business or company.

To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.

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

To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.

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

An assistant subject to the authority or control of another

A term of address to a man.

A word that is more specific than a given word

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

Rank or order as less important or consider of less value;

(humorous) Wife.

Make subordinate, dependent, or subservient;

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

Lower in rank or importance

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

Subject or submissive to authority or the control of another;

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

Of a clause; unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence;

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

Inferior in rank or status;

(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;