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| NOUN: | 1. Someone who directs and supervises workers: boss, director, foreman, foreperson, forewoman, manager, overseer, superintendent, supervisor, taskmaster, taskmistress. Informal : straw boss. Slang : chief. See OVER. 2. One who is highest in rank or authority: boss, chief, chieftain, director, headman, hierarch, leader, master. Slang : honcho. Idioms: cock of the walk. See OVER. 3. A decisive point: climacteric, crisis, crossroad (used in plural), exigence, exigency, juncture, pass, turning point, zero hour. See DECIDE. 4. A mass of bubbles in or on the surface of a liquid: foam, froth, lather, spume, suds, yeast. See SOLID. 5. A term or terms in large type introducing a text: heading, headline. See WORDS. 6. The seat of the faculty of intelligence and reason: brain, mind. Informal : gray matter. See THOUGHTS. 7. The uppermost part of the body: noddle, pate, poll. Slang : bean, block, conk, dome, noggin, noodle, nut. See BODY. 8. An innate capability: aptitude, aptness, bent, faculty, flair, genius, gift, instinct, knack, talent, turn. See ABILITY, APPROACH. | | VERB: | 1. To have charge of (the affairs of others): administer, administrate, direct, govern, manage, run, superintend, supervise. See OVER. 2. To move (a weapon or blow, for example) in the direction of someone or something: aim, cast, direct, level, point, set1, train, turn, zero in. Military : lay1. See SEEK. 3. To proceed in a specified direction: bear, go, make, set out, strike out. See APPROACH. | | ADJECTIVE: | Having or exercising authority: chief, principal. See OVER. | | PHRASAL VERB: | head off To block the progress of and force to change direction: cut off, intercept. See ALLOW.
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