name
Meaning 1
A surname from Bengali.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Bose
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /bəʊz/
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Received-Pronunciation: /bəʊs/
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General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -əʊz
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India: /boːs/
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UK: /bəʊs/
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US: /boʊs/
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rhymes with -əʊs
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CMU ARPABET: B OW1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Synonym of Baise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Baise
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: usually
Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles; led to the description of fundamental particles that later came to be known as bosons
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Satyendra N. Bose, Satyendra Nath Bose
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nuclear physicist
History
Etymology
Borrowed from colloquial Bengali বোস (bōs).
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 百色 (Bósè).