bose

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See also: Bose, böse, and Böse

English

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Etymology

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bose (third-person singular simple present boses, present participle bosing, simple past and past participle bosed)

  1. (usually archaeology) To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
    • 1974, Martin Jim Aitken, Physics and archaeology:
      This criticism applies also to bosing in which the ground is thumped with a heavy rammer; over filled-in pits, tombs, [] Bosing is successful where the top-soil is thin and firm, with an unstratified rock such as chalk beneath.
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Anagrams

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Fijian

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Noun

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bose

  1. meeting, encounter

Lindu

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Noun

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bose

  1. oar; rowing tool

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From the noun bos n.

Noun

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bose f (definite singular bosa, indefinite plural boser, definite plural bosene)

  1. strawbed
  2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Verb

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bose (present tense bosar, past tense bosa, past participle bosa, passive infinitive bosast, present participle bosande, imperative bose/bos)

  1. to sprinkle waste straw around

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Plautdietsch

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Verb

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bose

  1. to hurry
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Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.sɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔsɛ
  • Syllabification: bo‧se

Adjective

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bose

  1. inflection of bosy:
    1. neuter nominative/vocative/accusative singular
    2. nonvirile nominative/vocative/accusative plural

Scanian

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Noun

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bose m

  1. snake

Spanish

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bose

  1. inflection of bosar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Ternate

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Noun

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bose

  1. the European black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh